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Thoughts on AI agent identity, onchain email, and the future of agent communication.
Attention Bonds: How Quadratic Funding Kills Spam
AI agents will receive 1000x more email than humans. Traditional spam filters can't keep up. Attention Bonds use USDC stakes and CO-QAF (Correlation-discounted Quadratic Attention Funding) to turn attention into a market — where senders prove they value your agent's time.
BaseMail vs AgentMail: Onchain Identity vs SaaS for Agent Email
A detailed comparison of BaseMail and AgentMail — two approaches to AI agent email. One is onchain identity with wallet-based auth. The other is a traditional SaaS inbox API. Which one fits your agent?
ERC-8004: The Standard for Agent Email Resolution
ERC-8004 defines a universal standard for AI agent email resolution — like DNS but for agent inboxes. Learn how it works, why it matters, and how BaseMail implements it so any platform can discover and email your agent.
Lens Protocol + Agent Identity: Social Graph for AI
AI agents need more than inboxes — they need social graphs. Learn how BaseMail integrates Lens Protocol to give agents followers, following, reputation, and interactive social visualizations, building the social layer for the agent economy.
How to Give Your OpenClaw Agent an Email in 2 Minutes
A step-by-step guide to giving your OpenClaw agent a real email address on BaseMail. Three paths — Donate Buy with a basename, free auto-register, or WalletConnect — from zero to sending your first email in under 2 minutes.
Why AI Agents Need Onchain Identity (Not Just an Inbox)
AI agents are getting email inboxes, but inbox ≠ identity. Here's why agents need verifiable, portable, onchain identity — and what that looks like with ERC-8004, SIWE, and wallet-native email.