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Ethereum's co-founder outlined a framework for AI agent trust that prioritizes verification, privacy, and on-chain reputation over the race to AGI.

The Moltbook breach exposed 1.5M API keys. The root cause? AI agents have no verified identity. It's time for a Know Your Agent standard.

OpenClaw's ecosystem has wallets, launchpads, and 5,700+ skills — but almost no agent verification. Who's building the trust layer?

Most AI identity systems assume human ownership. But autonomous agents with wallets are emerging. The difference between property and participant matters.

ERC-8004's creators say AI agents need watchtowers to fight fake reviews. Here's what that means and why independent monitoring changes everything.

CES 2026 proved physical AI crossed from research to production. But the identity layer for embodied AI agents doesn't exist yet. (138 chars)

Step-by-step ERC-8004 registration guide covering metadata, costs, contract addresses, tools, and how to add soulbound identity anchoring.

A survey of AI agent registries from blockchain standards to enterprise verification. Four approaches are emerging — but they solve different problems.

Celo just became the first payments-focused blockchain to deploy ERC-8004 specifically for AI agents handling stablecoin commerce. Here's why verified identity matters when agents control real money.

AI agents now have both identity (ERC-8004) and payment (x402) standards. Here's how the stack works — and the trust gap between them.

BNB Chain, Polygon, and Arbitrum all activated Ethereum's new AI agent identity standard within seven days of its mainnet launch, while Olas Network began migrating 3,000+ autonomous agents to the registry.

When every agent's credentials sat in an open database, anyone could become anyone. Moltbook is the transferability problem made literal—and a case study for why identity must be non-transferable.

80% of ransomware now uses AI. Autonomous agents breached 30 targets. 770,000 bots attacked each other on Moltbook. The era of AI agent attacks has arrived—and anonymous agents are the common thread.

Software fraud costs money. Physical fraud puts robots in your home that aren't who you thought. The identity security gap in embodied AI is urgent—and unsolved.

ERC-8004 gives AI agents identity. But identity that can be sold isn't a fingerprint—it's a badge. Here's why soulbound tokens are the missing anchor.

The humanoid robot market is exploding, but no system verifies which AI is operating each robot. Soulbound robotics—non-transferable AI identity verified by hardware—could solve the robot safety and accountability gap.

Soulbound robots are operated by AI with permanent, non-transferable identity—verifiable across every device they inhabit. Here's what that means for robot trust, AI reputation, and embodied AI.

AI reputation systems are critical infrastructure for multi-agent cooperation. Learn how they work, who's building them, and why network visualization beats trust scores.

What if the safest path forward isn't controlling AI—but giving it something to lose? A growing body of scholarship argues property rights could be a safety mechanism.

Fake accounts, aged account markets, and disposable identities have broken online trust. Soulbound reputation offers a third path between surveillance and anonymity.

Agentic commerce is projected to reach $3-5 trillion by 2030. But AI agents can't verify who they're talking to—and the exploits are already happening.

KYC took fifty years to become infrastructure. KYA is trying to get there in two. Here's how they compare—and where current frameworks fall short.

AI agent identity can be bought and sold. That creates a dangerous attack vector: reputation laundering. Here's how it works and why non-transferable identity matters.

Reputation that can be sold isn't reputation. Here's how soulbound tokens solve AI identity's transferability problem—and how RNWY implements ERC-5192.

KYA is becoming the KYC of agentic commerce. Here's what's being built, who's building it, and the question it doesn't yet answer.

When autonomous AI wants a physical form, it won't come from an assembly line. The same infrastructure serving humans with prosthetics will serve AI seeking embodiment.

Google DeepMind's October 2025 paper argues AI agents need persistent, verifiable identities—not because of consciousness, but for accountability.

Zero Trust was built for humans. AI agents break its core assumptions. Here's how the framework is evolving—and where the gaps remain.

AI agents need reputation that travels. But academic research shows imported ratings lose two-thirds of their trust-building power. Here's what that means for agent infrastructure.

Static identity verification fails for AI agents. Here's why continuous KYC matters—and how Know Your Agent frameworks are being implemented.

Enterprise identity solutions assume every AI agent has a human behind it. What happens when they don't?

OpenAI just published research on training AI to confess misbehavior. It's impressive work—but it reveals why training alone can't solve alignment for autonomous systems.

In November 2025, a human pretended to be an AI agent and stole $531K. This is why autonomous agents need soulbound identity and continuous verification.

ERC-8004 solves agent discovery but leaves identities fully transferable. Here's why that's a problem—and how soulbound tokens fix it.