New BSV standard lets humans control AI agents’ spending

Homepage > News > Tech > New BSV standard lets humans control AI agents’ spending TL;DR: BRC-181, approved as an official BSV standard in September, lets an artificial intelligence (AI) agent spend from a wallet without a human confirming every transaction. The owner signs a set of spending rules (per-payment caps, time-period budgets, an approved recipient list, rate limits, and a kill switch), and the wallet enforces them no matter what the agent asks for. The standard assumes the agent will eventually be tricked by an attacker into requesting a bad payment, and it is built so that even then, the worst possible loss is the small allowance in the agent’s own isolated account. Key Takeaways BRC-181 is an official BSV standard for letting AI agents spend money unattended, inside signed limits. Testing exposed critical spending loopholes, leading to stricter post-transaction checks. BRC-181 was created to let AI agents safely make automated micropayments. Delegated AI agents can inherit smaller budgets for payments that must keep running. BRC-181 adds wallet-level spending controls while keeping agent payments disabled by default. An AI agent that can pay for things on its o...