Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio
Alithea Bio's Froglet protocol lets agents transact cross-organizationally with verifiable receipts
“the agent is no longer just a cook with a better knife. It starts acting like an executive chef, finding suppliers, ordering ingredients, coordinating kitchen work, and keeping a record of everything”
Alithea Bio is launching Froglet, a protocol enabling agents to discover external services, negotiate and pay for work across organizational boundaries, and generate verifiable receipts for every step. The core thesis is that more tools alone cannot automate scientific research — what's needed is a trust and transaction layer for multi-agent, multi-org collaboration. This positions Froglet as infrastructure for an emerging agent economy, complementing rather than replacing existing tool and payment stacks.