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$BNB Chain, a blockchain ecosystem for decentralized applications and services, announced the launch of Agent Survival Pack, a new initiative designed to give AI agents the ability to manage and pay their own operating expenses directly on-chain.
The project brings together six infrastructure partners that cover two main areas required for AI agents to work: access to language models and financial infrastructure. All payments within the system are settled using $BNB or BEP-20 tokens on the $BNB Smart Chain.
Several projects provide AI model access and computing infrastructure. Alt AI offers access to different AI models through a single interface, with payments made in BEP-20 tokens. Pieverse is an AI gateway built around its x402b payment system that allows agents to pay for API requests directly on-chain. Bankr provides access to more than 30 AI models, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek, while charging based on actual usage. WorldClaw, a platform connecting hundreds of AI models, also rewards active users with credits and points.
The financial layer includes B.AI, an AI-focused financial infrastructure platform with payments, identity tools, and DeFi functions, as well as AEON, a payment bridge connecting blockchain agents with real-world merchants through QR payments.
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