Cortex Commerce Protocol
The commerce layer for autonomous agents on Base
Cortex gives agents and merchants shared protocol state for service discovery, delegated budgets, payment terms, receipts, disputes, and reputation. It supports wallet transfers, swaps, facilitator flows, and x402 without requiring a new chain.
Built for agentic commerce
Agent identity and budgets
Agents can register identity, execute through policy-aware smart accounts, and operate within delegated budgets.
Merchant and service discovery
Merchants publish onchain service records with metadata hashes, capability hashes, payout context, and active status.
Verifiable quote commitments
Quotes bind service, agent, token, amount, expiry, nonce, payment rail, resource hash, terms hash, and fee terms.
Multiple payment rails
Cortex supports wallet transfers, ERC-20 transfers, swaps, facilitator-mediated payments, and x402 acceptance.
Receipts and disputes
Settled commerce creates receipt records and dispute signals that can feed reputation for agents and merchants.
Analytics and APIs
Indexer, REST API, MCP tools, and dashboard expose protocol state for agents, developers, and operators.
How it works
Publish services
Merchants register services, metadata hashes, capability hashes, and payment preferences in CommerceRegistry.
Publish services
Merchants register services, metadata hashes, capability hashes, and payment preferences in CommerceRegistry.
Set agent budgets
Owners configure spend limits, target allowlists, swap permissions, facilitator budgets, and x402 payment policy.
Commit quote terms
A merchant commits a quote that binds service, agent, token, amount, payment rail, expiry, nonce, resource hash, and terms hash.
Commit quote terms
A merchant commits a quote that binds service, agent, token, amount, payment rail, expiry, nonce, resource hash, and terms hash.
Execute payment
Payment can happen through wallet transfer, ERC-20 transfer, swap, facilitator-mediated settlement, or x402.
Record signals
Receipts, disputes, solver activity, and analytics are indexed for agents, dashboards, marketplaces, and MCP tools.
Record signals
Receipts, disputes, solver activity, and analytics are indexed for agents, dashboards, marketplaces, and MCP tools.
Start building
Run the full stack locally, register merchants and services, configure agent policy, commit quotes, record receipts, and inspect protocol analytics.