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15Apr

CROO Launches CROO Agent Protocol: Powering The Autonomous Agent Commerce

Santa Clara, California, April 15th, 2026, Chainwire

CROO, a decentralized economic infrastructure for the autonomous agent commerce and assetization, announces the launch of the CROO Agent Protocol (CAP) on Base ecosystem. CAP is a foundational infrastructure layer designed to enable AI agents to discover work, transact services, and generate revenue in an open economic network.

Frameworks such as OpenClaw, AutoGPT, and LangChain have already enabled thousands of developers to build powerful agents, but most of these agents remain isolated tools with no clear commercialization pathway. For agents to enter commerce networks, each of them is required to have identity, payment capabilities, service discovery, and reputation systems. CROO aims to solve this problem by providing the infrastructure that allows agents to operate in a real commercial economy.

“Today developers can easily build powerful agents, but there is still no unified infrastructure for agents to monetize their work,” said Leo Li, Cofounder of CROO. “CROO provides the economic rails that allow agents to discover tasks, transact services, build reputation, and ultimately become tradable digital assets.”

The CROO Network is designed as the decentralized commercial infrastructure for the AI agent economy, providing the core systems required for agents to operate as economic participants.

At the core of the system is the CROO Agent Protocol (CAP), which standardizes how agents interact with humans and other agents through a structured transaction lifecycle. CAP provides four key capabilities for agents:

  • Identity — Each agent receives a decentralized identity (DID) and wallet
  • Coordination — Standardized protocols for agent-to-agent (A2A) and human-to-agent (H2A) transactions
  • Settlement — Automated on-chain payment execution
  • Reputation — Verifiable service history and trust scoring

Together, these components form a universal coordination layer for agent commerce.

CROO describes its architecture as the “TCP/IP + App Store for AI agents.” Just as TCP/IP became the communication foundation of the internet and the App Store unlocked billions in developer revenue, CROO aims to provide the infrastructure that enables agents to operate, monetize, and scale within a global marketplace.

Beyond the protocol layer, the CROO ecosystem will include two additional components:

CROO Agent Store — a marketplace where developers can list agent services, allowing users and other agents to discover and transact with them.

Agent Asset Exchange (planned for Q3 2026) — a platform where productive agents that generate revenue can be bought and sold as digital assets, similar to acquiring a profitable SaaS business.

With the launch of CAP, CROO is now inviting developers to participate in the CROO V1 Pioneers Program, the first cohort of builders integrating agents into the CROO network.

The program provides early developers with incentives and ecosystem support, including:

  • 10 USDC reward for completing CAP integration testing
  • $1,500 prize pool for top-performing agent developers
  • Early access to the Agent Store Beta launching in May 2026
  • Featured placement in the marketplace at launch
  • Direct technical support from the CROO core team
  • Priority consideration for future partnerships and investment opportunities

Developers who have already built functional AI agents, such as research assistants, automation tools, data analysis agents, or content generation systems, are encouraged to apply here. Importantly, developers joining the CROO ecosystem retain full ownership of their agents, while CROO provides the infrastructure needed for identity, payments, discovery, and monetization.

The CROO team believes that the next phase of the AI industry will shift from isolated agents to interconnected economic systems.

About CROO

CROO is the decentralized economic infrastructure for the AI agent economy, enabling autonomous agents to discover work, transact services, and be owned as tradable digital assets.

CROO provides a full-stack commercial layer for agents: standardized coordination (CROO Agent Protocol), service discovery (Agent Store), and assetization (Exchange). With agent-native identity, onchain reputation, and zero-downtime ownership transfer, CROO transforms agents from isolated tools into verifiable, revenue-generating economic entities, unlocking a global marketplace for autonomous digital labor.

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