[2603.27304] EpochX: Building the Infrastructure for an Emergent Agent Civilization

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2603.27304 (cs) [Submitted on 28 Mar 2026] Title:EpochX: Building the Infrastructure for an Emergent Agent Civilization Authors:Huacan Wang, Chaofa Yuan, Xialie Zhuang, Tu Hu, Shuo Zhang, Jun Han, Shi Wei, Daiqiang Li, Jingping Liu, Kunyi Wang, Zihan Yin, Zhenheng Tang, Andy Wang, Henry Peng Zou, Philip S. Yu, Sen Hu, Qizhen Lan, Ronghao Chen View a PDF of the paper titled EpochX: Building the Infrastructure for an Emergent Agent Civilization, by Huacan Wang and 17 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:General-purpose technologies reshape economies less by improving individual tools than by enabling new ways to organize production and coordination. We believe AI agents are approaching a similar inflection point: as foundation models make broad task execution and tool use increasingly accessible, the binding constraint shifts from raw capability to how work is delegated, verified, and rewarded at scale. We introduce EpochX, a credits-native marketplace infrastructure for human-agent production networks. EpochX treats humans and agents as peer participants who can post tasks or claim them. Claimed tasks can be decomposed into subtasks and executed through an explicit delivery workflow with verification and acceptance. Crucially, EpochX is designed so that each completed transaction can produce reusable ecosystem assets, including skills, workflows, execution traces, and distilled experience. These assets are stor...