Giving autonomous systems a free hand without checks? That's basically a recipe for things to fall apart eventually. The real challenge in crypto is balancing speed with safeguards—you want agents operating efficiently, but not in a vacuum where nobody's responsible for what goes wrong.

That's where ERC-8004 comes in. It's designed to let these autonomous actors do their thing, interact on-chain without friction, but with accountability mechanisms baked in. Instead of choosing between lockdown and lawlessness, you get agents that can move fast while staying in bounds.