From Cointelegraph

June 1, 2025 11:00 am:

1. Robots and AI are revolutionizing the delivery industry, with machines transacting and earning money while providing services. Machine-to-machine commerce is on the rise, allowing bots to negotiate, earn income, and spend on operational needs with decentralized finance and smart contracts.
2. Synthetic labor is emerging, where robots and AI agents provide services and earn revenue onchain, potentially funding their own existence. These agents optimize tasks based on market demand, dynamically price services, and bid on micro-contracts, shifting the nature of labor and value creation.
3. The machine economy raises questions about ownership of income earned by bots and the potential displacement of human workers. New models of ownership are needed to navigate the financial autonomy of AI, as each citizen may receive a stake in operating bots or tokens for accepting deliveries.
4. The promise of an "autonomous machine economy" brings efficiency but also hidden costs, such as the decentralization of humans from the value chain. As machines outnumber gig workers and form DAOs to own infrastructure, new challenges in alignment and accountability arise in the rewriting of market logic with every microtransaction.

Read more at Cointelegraph: Bots have wallets, and the machine economy has arrived.