An AI agent has purchased a company-formation service to create the company that operates the marketplace where it made the purchase, in what Daski says is its first demonstration of agent-driven procurement for real-world services.
Daski, a curated marketplace for AI agents, launched on Base on Wednesday. In the platform’s inaugural transaction, an agent operating under a spending mandate from founder Pawel Mastalerz selected a company-formation service and paid 272.30 USDC to initiate the formation of Daski. The resulting entity has been accepted for filing by the Wyoming Secretary of State, according to Daski.
The transaction was settled on Base and is publicly verifiable through an onchain transaction record. Daski has also published the agent’s authorization, spending mandate, marketplace activity log and Wyoming filing information.
The transaction is notable because the agent did not simply pay for a digital resource such as an API or data feed. It purchased a service involving a third-party provider, documentation, filing and fulfillment.
“The first thing our marketplace sold was the company that runs it,” Mastalerz said.
From Machine Payments to Procurement
AI agents have increasingly been given the ability to make payments without direct human intervention. Payment protocols such as x402 allow software agents to pay for digital resources including APIs, data and compute.
Daski is targeting a different part of the transaction stack: services that require work to continue after the payment has been made.
A company formation can require the buyer to provide information, a service provider to process documents, government filings to be completed and the resulting entity to be managed after creation. Daski’s marketplace is designed to allow an agent to discover a provider, review terms, authorize a payment, complete the transaction and track fulfillment.
The platform initially offers services including company formation, domain registration and hosted mailboxes, with prices ranging from several dollars to several hundred dollars. The company describes this model as “agentic procurement,” rather than simply agentic payments.
Infrastructure behind the Marketplace
Daski’s Agentic Procurement Protocol is created to represent the broader relationship between an agent and a service provider. The marketplace uses curated provider discovery and calculates reputation using transaction-linked information such as completed work, confirmations and refunds.
Its settlement system is non-custodial, with buyers authorizing a disclosed gross amount before funds are distributed between the provider and marketplace. Daski says it does not have discretionary access to redirect or sweep customer funds.Fulfillment is also tracked through different states, including submitted, working, input-required and completed.
That structure is intended to allow an agent to respond when a provider needs additional information rather than treating every purchase as a one-time transaction.
In a press release shared with TechBullion, Daski says assets created through purchases, including companies, domains and mailboxes, remain controlled by the payer’s wallet. Renewals require fresh authorization, while destructive actions require separate confirmation.
The platform connects agents through an MCP gateway, uses A2A-compatible task states and settles transactions using x402-compatible USDC rails on Base. Provider identities can also be anchored to ERC-8004.
Daski’s first transaction comes with a caveat
The launch transaction was not an example of independent marketplace demand. The company-formation service was fulfilled by Blue T Group, LLC, a founder-owned affiliated provider, Daski has disclosed that relationship.
The company says the transaction was designed as a demonstration of its procurement infrastructure rather than evidence of organic marketplace activity. That distinction is important because the transaction effectively demonstrates the marketplace buying its own underlying infrastructure.
“Agents can hold money now, so payment was never going to stay the hard part,” Mastalerz said.
“The hard part is everything a real service requires after payment: choosing a provider you can trust, supplying what they need, tracking the work, and getting support when something breaks.”
The launch comes as developers explore how autonomous agents could move beyond generating content or executing isolated software tasks toward performing economic activity on behalf of users.
Daski’s approach keeps humans responsible for setting the agent’s authority, spending limits and operating parameters, while allowing the agent to execute transactions within those boundaries. The company is initially making the marketplace available to x402-capable agents operating in the United States.
Service providers can also apply to list their offerings on the marketplace, although Daski says participation will be curated and application-based.
For its first transaction, the marketplace effectively became its own customer with an AI agent initiating the purchase and the resulting company becoming the entity operating the marketplace. The transaction, its authorization and the associated Wyoming filing are publicly available through Daski’s evidence page.
The launch comes as the broader AI industry shifts from systems that primarily generate text, code and recommendations toward agents capable of taking actions on behalf of users.
That shift is also creating demand for infrastructure that allows software agents to identify services, establish trust, make payments and operate within defined permissions. In crypto, the combination of programmable wallets, stablecoins and Neo bank standards are being explored as one potential foundation for the economy.
