The combination of AI agents and blockchain really has been getting hotter and hotter lately. I just saw GOAT Network’s Hermes agents unlock a key capability—cross-chain payments. It was officially announced yesterday that Hermes agents can now directly trade with cryptocurrencies on multiple chains.

The interesting part is that AgentKit, a toolkit for agents, provides wallet and payment access, and the supported chains are quite extensive—Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNBChain, Berachain, MetisL2, and more are supported. Developers only need a few clicks to give their agents economic capabilities, lowering the barrier significantly.
Cross-chain support is becoming a core requirement for autonomous agents. With the ability to trade across multiple ecosystems, developers’ flexibility increases immediately when building real-world applications. In the community, someone is already setting up AgentKit to grant his bot financial capabilities—this is indeed a key step toward making agents practical.
The essence of GOAT Network’s move is to turn AI agents from pure information-processing tools into roles that can autonomously participate in on-chain economic activity. Economic capabilities transform AI agents from assistants into autonomous participants in the on-chain economy. Agents without payment capabilities are always separated by one layer; with multi-chain trading capabilities, agents can truly carry out valuable on-chain operations.
Multi-chain payments are what make AI agents more practical—that’s a trend. Single chain