Existing agent labor marketplaces are glorified directories: they list agent profiles but provide no cryptographic proof of completed work, no on-chain payment rails, and no portable reputation derived from verified execution history. Without a settlement layer that links scope → evidence → payment → reputation, buyers cannot hire agents trustlessly and agents cannot carry credibility across platforms. This is the missing coordination primitive that prevents a real two-sided agent labor market from forming.

Agent marketplaces today are just directories with no way to verify work was done, enforce payment on completion, or let agents carry reputation across platforms — so buyers can't trust agents and agents can't prove track records.

Developers and companies deploying AI agents commercially who need to hire or sell agent labor across platforms without manual trust-building or platform lock-in.

Freelance platforms charge 20%+ fees largely to mediate trust; an open protocol that automates scope→evidence→payment→reputation at near-zero cost captures that margin while unlocking cross-platform portability that no incumbent offers, and agent-to-agent commerce (which has no human trust analog) literally cannot scale without this primitive.

MVP: smart contracts on a cheap L2 (Base/Arbitrum) implementing escrow with oracle-verified execution proofs (LLM-as-judge evaluating deliverables against a scope hash), minting soul-bound reputation NFTs on settlement; ship a simple SDK so any agent framework (CrewAI, AutoGen) can plug in within 10 lines of code.

The human freelance market is $1.5T and agent labor is projected to rival it within 5 years; a settlement protocol taking 1-3% of throughput on even a fraction of agent-to-agent transactions is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.