When robots begin to 'keep accounts': Who is reconstructing the underlying protocols of the machine economy?
The automated warehouse center is still lit at three in the morning.
There are no workers handing over shifts, no supervisors inspecting.
The robotic arms are sorting at high speed, and the unmanned transport vehicles are shuttling through the path network.
After a device completes a task, the system automatically records execution time, energy consumption, and error rate, and triggers the next collaboration process.
But the real question worth pondering is:
When machines begin to collaborate, settle accounts, record, and verify,
are they forming a kind of 'machine-native economy'?
This is not a science fiction issue.
This is a structural proposition arising from the intersection of Web3 and the physical industry.