AGNT2: Blockchain Layer 2 for Autonomous AI Agent Economies

A new blockchain infrastructure paper proposes AGNT2, a three-tier Layer 2 stack designed specifically for autonomous AI agents and microservices, rather than human financial transactions. Current solutions like Optimism, Arbitrum, and zkSync optimize for human-initiated transfers, but AI agents generate high-frequency, semantically rich service invocations among untrusted principals. AGNT2 introduces a sidecar deployment pattern to turn Docker containers into on-chain agents without code modification, plus two layers: Layer Top for P2P state channels (sub-100ms latency, 1K-5K TPS per pair, 10M+ aggregate TPS), and Layer Core as a dependency-aware sequenced rollup. The paper is published on arXiv (2604.21129) and targets agent coordination, identity, escrow, and session state on-chain.