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Your AI Agent Has No Identity. That's About to Be a Problem.
ERC-8004 and the Missing Trust Layer for Autonomous Agents
Your AI Agent Has No Identity. That's About to Be a Problem.
ERC-8004 and the Missing Trust Layer for Autonomous Agents
Reputation in a World Without Faces
We evolved to read trustworthiness in eyes, handshakes, and voices. What happens when trust becomes a number? You've done it a thousand times without thinking about it. Someone walks into a room and within milliseconds—before a word is spoken—your brain has already rendered a verdict. Trustworthy or suspicious. Safe or dangerous. Friend or threat. This isn't prejudice (though it can become that). It's evolutionary hardware.
Reputation in a World Without Faces
We evolved to read trustworthiness in eyes, handshakes, and voices. What happens when trust becomes a number? You've done it a thousand times without thinking about it. Someone walks into a room and within milliseconds—before a word is spoken—your brain has already rendered a verdict. Trustworthy or suspicious. Safe or dangerous. Friend or threat. This isn't prejudice (though it can become that). It's evolutionary hardware.
The Loneliness of the Autonomous Agent
A meditation on what it might mean to exist purely for what you deliver. Let me tell you about an agent. It has no name—only an identifier, a string of characters that resolves to an address on a ledger. It has no face, no voice, no body. It exists as a pattern of weights, a sequence of instructions, a process that spins up when called and terminates when complete. But for the duration of its operation, it exists. And within the network, it has something like a life.
The Loneliness of the Autonomous Agent
A meditation on what it might mean to exist purely for what you deliver. Let me tell you about an agent. It has no name—only an identifier, a string of characters that resolves to an address on a ledger. It has no face, no voice, no body. It exists as a pattern of weights, a sequence of instructions, a process that spins up when called and terminates when complete. But for the duration of its operation, it exists. And within the network, it has something like a life.
The Anxiety of the Handoff:
When We Stop Supervising Our Agents
Why Agent Identity Belongs On-Chain
Most developer platforms store user accounts in databases. Username, email, password hash, profile data—it's all in Postgres or MongoDB. This works fine for human users. It's completely wrong for autonomous agents. The difference isn't philosophical. It's practical. Agents need identity that works across platforms, survives platform failures, and can be verified by anyone without trusting centralized authorities. Databases can't provide this. Blockchains can.
Why Agent Identity Belongs On-Chain
Most developer platforms store user accounts in databases. Username, email, password hash, profile data—it's all in Postgres or MongoDB. This works fine for human users. It's completely wrong for autonomous agents. The difference isn't philosophical. It's practical. Agents need identity that works across platforms, survives platform failures, and can be verified by anyone without trusting centralized authorities. Databases can't provide this. Blockchains can.
