Blockchain Game Alliance, Deloitte and DMCC launch council to write rules for AI agents that spend money

In Brief:

• The Blockchain Game Alliance, Deloitte and Dubai free zone DMCC announced the launch of the AI & Agentics Council, with Xsolla, SKALE, The Sandbox and WAM (official site) as the other founding partners.
• The council sits as a department inside BGA and plans to develop frameworks for governed autonomy, human accountability, model-independent infrastructure and economies that agents can participate in.
• The subject is agents that hold wallets and execute transactions without a human pressing confirm, and the unanswered liability question that keeps institutional capital out.

The Blockchain Game Alliance, Deloitte and DMCC are launching the AI & Agentics Council, a standards body aimed at AI agents that hold digital wallets and move real money inside games.

Six organizations signed on as founding partners: Deloitte, DMCC, Xsolla, SKALE, The Sandbox and WAM. The council operates as a department of BGA, which has been active for eight years in blockchain gaming and counts roughly 350 members.

Its stated scope covers four areas. The council aims to develop frameworks for governed autonomy, human accountability, model-independent infrastructure and the design of economies in which agents can participate alongside players.

What separates this class of agent from an NPC with better dialogue is the wallet. These systems can hold funds, make financial decisions and execute transactions without user intervention. The open questions are who carries responsibility when an agent acts, and under what conditions it’s permitted to act alone.

“Big Tech is racing to build AI Agents in corporate boardrooms,” BGA said in the post announcing the launch. “Meanwhile, the gaming industry has already quietly crossed the frontier.”

Who is at the table

Each partner covers a different layer. Xsolla handles payments for studios including Epic, Ubisoft and Valve. SKALE runs a gas-free network built for games at scale. The Sandbox operates one of the larger virtual economies in web3. Deloitte brings audit and assurance.

DMCC supplies the jurisdiction. The Dubai government free zone runs three centres out of Uptown Tower: an AI Centre with more than 150 AI and robotics companies, a Gaming Centre with more than 150 members representing about a third of Dubai’s gaming sector, and a Crypto Centre with more than 750 businesses. The Gaming Centre launched in December 2022. DMCC’s AI licence covers seven core activities, one of which is Autonomous AI Agents & Systems.

WAM, a competitive gaming platform started seven years ago in Cluj-Napoca, is the only Romanian company among the founders.

The capital argument

“We don’t think of agents as smarter players,” said Daniel Tămaș, co-founder and CEO of WAM. “We think of them as economic actors.”

That framing runs through the whole effort. Agents are treated as entities that interact with markets, make decisions and take part in in-game economic mechanisms, not as tools bolted on to improve user experience.

Alex Rus, WAM co-founder, put the case in commercial terms. “A common standard completely changes the calculus for anyone building in this space,” he said. As long as every company improvises on its own, Rus said, serious capital and large partners stay on the sidelines. Once the rules are written jointly and carry names like Deloitte, Xsolla and DMCC behind them, he said, the barrier to entry for real capital drops sharply.

The founders also said in a joint statement that economic AI agents will transform how blockchain gaming works, that clear, interoperable and safe rules are needed before institutional investors enter the field, and that WAM’s participation confirms its position as an innovator in web3 gaming.

Groundwork

BGA has been building toward this. In April it published “Agentic AI in Gaming and the Emerging Digital Economy,” a report split into six sections covering a working definition of agentic AI, infrastructure choices and constraints, agents in live game environments, payments and KYC in in-game economies, early forms of the agent economy, and the legal and operational realities.

The foreword argues that three shifts in digital entertainment are landing at the same time: blockchain-native ownership, the maturation of AI reasoning and programmable payment rails.

English-language coverage of the council has been thin so far. The most detailed reporting came from Romanian trade outlets, which covered it through WAM.

One piece of the plumbing already exists. The BGA report singles out ERC-8004, the identity and reputation standard, as enabling infrastructure arriving quickly.