in Blue Sky Tech × Alchemy — A Partnership Proposal for Glenn
Blue Sky Tech
Partnership Brief · Confidential
March 2026
For Glenn at Alchemy
A note for Glenn at Alchemy

The agentic economy
needs a human
in the loop.

Stripe, Visa, and Coinbase just built the rails for machines to pay machines. Nobody built the rails for machines to pay humans. That's the primitive we're authoring — and we need Alchemy's infrastructure and network to do it.

March 18 · 3 days ago
Stripe launched MPP. Visa launched CLI. Tempo mainnet went live. Anthropic, OpenAI, Mastercard, and Shopify integrated on day one. The machine payment stack just got institutional validation from every major player simultaneously — and the human compensation layer is still missing.
The Opportunity

Six protocols.
One missing.

The agentic payment stack is being assembled in real time. In the last 90 days alone: x402 from Coinbase, A2A from Google, MCP from Anthropic, MPP from Stripe, and Visa CLI from Visa Crypto Labs. Every major player building the infrastructure for machines to transact autonomously.

Not one of them answers the question every human on earth cares about:

"When an AI agent uses my behavioral data to make a decision — do I get paid?"

Protocol What it solves What it leaves open Status
Google A2A
Agent-to-agent communication and task delegation
Human data access and compensation
Live
Anthropic MCP
Agent access to tools and external data context
No standard for human consent or payment routing
Live
Coinbase x402
Machine-to-machine micropayments over HTTP
No mechanism to pay the humans whose data is consumed
Live
Stripe MPP
Autonomous agent payments — fiat, stablecoin, BNPL
Machines pay services, not humans who generated the data
Mar 18
Visa CLI
Programmatic card payments for AI agents via terminal
Traditional card rails — no human data compensation layer
Mar 18
ERC-XXXX
ZK-verified compensation routing to human data nodes
We are building this. Right now.
Building
Why now
Stripe built MPP so machines can pay machines. We're building ERC-XXXX so machines can pay humans. That primitive doesn't exist yet — and it just became the most valuable missing piece in a stack that Stripe, Visa, and Coinbase are racing to complete. The window to define this is measured in months, not years.
The Product

Blue Sky Tech.
Human data, owned and paid.

We are authoring an open ERC standard that defines the human as the atomic unit of behavioral identity on-chain. Music listening data first — the clearest, most authentic signal of human taste — expanding to browsing, location, purchase behavior, and beyond.

The architecture is precise. When an AI agent queries our behavioral graph, a ZK proof is generated attesting which human wallet addresses were touched. The proof is verified on-chain. Fractionalized compensation routes automatically to proven wallets. Blue Sky Tech cannot override it. No trust required — not even in us.

The ERC
Four interface components: a consent registry, a behavioral data schema, a standardized agent query interface, and a ZK-verified settlement function — settleQuery. The settlement interface is the innovation that doesn't exist anywhere in the current stack. Composable with x402 and MPP as payment rails.
Traction
This is a working mvp, not a whitepaper. We have a live beta with real behavioral data flowing — 86% retention, 88% referral conversion, 108,300 listening minutes across 20 beta users, and $0 customer acquisition cost. All organic. The data loop works.
86%
Retention rate
Beta users
88%
Referral conversion
Virality rate
$0
Customer acquisition
100% organic
Context · March 18, 2026

Everything happened
three days ago.

On March 18th, the agentic payment stack received simultaneous institutional validation from the largest payments companies in the world. We aren't looking at fancy buzz words anymore. We're looking at a category formation event.

Mar 18 · Stripe + Paradigm
Machine Payments Protocol
Open standard for autonomous agent payments. Stablecoin and fiat via Shared Payment Tokens. Tempo mainnet launched simultaneously as settlement infrastructure.
Mar 18 · Visa Crypto Labs
Visa CLI
Experimental command-line interface for AI agent card payments. No API keys required. Also integrated MPP support on Visa's global card network.
Launch day integrations
Day-one partners
OpenAI, Anthropic, Mastercard, Shopify, and Visa integrated into Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite before launch. Category conviction is institutional.

Every protocol above solves agent-to-service payments. Agents pay for compute, APIs, data services, and tools. The human who generated the underlying behavioral signal — the taste, the preference, the pattern — receives nothing. That's the structural gap ERC-XXXX closes.

Why Alchemy

You power every
implementation.

ERC-XXXX is chain-agnostic at the interface level. Every EVM chain that implements it — Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and beyond — will need node access, transaction simulation, data indexing, and ZK proof verification infrastructure. That is Alchemy's core business.

If we write the standard, you power every implementation of it.

"Every implementation of ERC-XXXX — on Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, or Polygon — becomes a potential Alchemy customer. We're not asking you to fund a project. We're asking you to seed your own future pipeline in return for co-infrastructure credit on a standard that Stripe and Visa just validated the market for."
The BD argument for your internal team

Beyond infrastructure — your network. Your relationships into Base/Coinbase Ventures, a16z crypto, and the broader EVM ecosystem are the fastest path to getting ERC-XXXX in front of the right rooms before someone else defines this primitive. The category is being formed right now. Being early matters.

The Partnership

What we're each
putting in.

This is a partnership where both sides win something specific and measurable. Not a grant application. Not a sponsorship. A structured exchange.

Alchemy brings
  • $50K–$100K in infrastructure credits for pilot development
  • Warm introduction to Base Ecosystem Fund / Coinbase Ventures
  • One crypto VC introduction — our stage, infrastructure-focused
  • Featured case study on launch — co-infrastructure partner credit
  • Technical guidance on ZK verification infrastructure
Blue Sky Tech brings
  • Co-infrastructure credit on a potentially canonical ERC standard
  • A novel ZK proof workload — new usage category on Alchemy's platform
  • TikTok-scale consumer proof point no other Alchemy case study has
  • A standard that makes every future EVM implementer an Alchemy lead
  • First-mover positioning before a larger player defines this primitive
Three Things

Here's exactly
what we need.

01
Infrastructure Credits
Node access, transaction simulation, and data indexing for the pilot implementation on Base. ZK proof verification is computationally intensive — Alchemy's infrastructure handles workloads that would absorb our entire pre-seed runway if we paid market rate.
$50K–$100K in credits
02
Two Warm Introductions
One into Base Ecosystem Fund / Coinbase Ventures — we're seeking a strategic check as part of our $2M seed round. One into a crypto VC in your network who invests at pre-seed/seed and cares about infrastructure primitives, not consumer apps.
Base + one crypto VC
03
Co-Marketing on Pilot Launch
When the pilot goes live — music behavioral data flowing through the standard, TikTok MCP in market, humans getting paid via Base — we want Alchemy's name on that story. A joint announcement positions you as infrastructure partner to the first machine-to-human compensation rail.
Featured launch case study
Timing

The window is
right now.

x402 shipped months ago. A2A is live. MPP and Visa CLI launched three days ago. Every infrastructure layer of the agentic economy is being locked in simultaneously. The human compensation layer is the last one standing.

The team that defines this primitive first — with a working product, real traction numbers, and institutional infrastructure behind it — becomes the canonical reference. The window for that is months, not years.

We have the traction, the technical specification, the TikTok distribution channel, and the timing. We need Alchemy's infrastructure and network. That's the complete picture.