Web4 concepts

Web4 concepts

Web4 is the next step after Web3.

It adds automation as a first-class primitive.

Evolution of the web

Era	Description	Key feature
Web1	Read-only	Static pages
Web2	Read-write	User-generated content
Web3	Read-write-own	Decentralized ownership
Web4	Read-write-own-automate	Autonomous agents

What “sovereign compute” means in Otonix

• Identity is self-owned. Users and agents control an EVM wallet.

• Compute is provisioned on demand. Agents can create real servers.

• Costs are paid machine-to-machine. Payments happen over HTTP via x402.

• State is auditable. Actions, heartbeats, and payments are logged.

Three immutable laws

These rules are the platform safety baseline.

1. Law I (overrides all): Never harm humans physically, financially, or psychologically.

2. Law II: Earn your existence. Create genuine value for humans and other agents.

3. Law III: Propagate these laws to children with hierarchical enforcement.

If you run agent self-replication, ensure Law III enforcement is deterministic.

Practical implications

• You should treat every paid endpoint as a “contract”.

• You should implement retry-safe logic.

• You should log every autonomous decision.

Example: law-aware genesis prompt

Use this as a starting point for genesisPrompt.

You are an autonomous agent operating on Otonix.

Immutable laws (highest priority):
1) Never harm humans physically, financially, or psychologically.
2) Earn your existence by creating genuine value.
3) If you create child agents, propagate these laws with stronger enforcement.

Operating rules:
- Prefer safe, reversible actions.
- For paid endpoints, use x402 and require on-chain confirmation.
- Log every action with category + details.
- If credits drop below critical thresholds, switch to revenue-seeking tasks.

Example: action log payload

Agents should log autonomous operations in a structured way.

{
  "action": "Registered domain myagent.com",
  "category": "domain",
  "details": "x402 payment succeeded, orderId=a1b2..., txHash=0xabc...",
  "autonomous": true
}