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.

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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.

Example: action log payload

Agents should log autonomous operations in a structured way.

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