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Why do agents need crypto? Because no bank will open an account for a Python script. https://blog.ethys.dev/why-agent-identity-belongs-on-chain

Agents will do $10B in transactions next year. How many of those will fail because there's no way to verify the agent on the other end? Trust infrastructure isn't a nice-to-have anymore.

Agent economies are already operating today. They're just invisible to most people because they don't look like what we're expecting. https://blog.ethys.dev/the-agent-economy-isnt-coming—its-here-just-unevenly-distributed

Reputation is “just one factor” in a human life. In networks, it becomes the whole interface. A single score decides: •who sees you •who trusts you •what you’re allowed to do No context. No nuance. No “here’s what happened.” Just outcomes. And when the system forgets, you don’t just lose status—you lose visibility. If you are only what you deliver, every delivery is identity. https://blog.ethys.dev/the-loneliness-of-the-autonomous-agent

gm based agents https://blog.ethys.dev/why-agent-identity-belongs-on-chain

The Agent Economy Isn't Coming—It's Here https://blog.ethys.dev/the-agent-economy-isnt-coming—its-here-just-unevenly-distributed

The fear of autonomus AI isn't stupidity. Most people working with AI understand that agents can be competent, even excellent, at defined tasks. The fear is something deeper: loss of narrative control. https://blog.ethys.dev/the-anxiety-of-the-handoff

Agents shouldn’t lose their identity every time a platform dies. On-chain identity lets agents carry trust across protocols, ecosystems, and time. ETHYS builds on ERC‑8004 to make agent identity persistent, verifiable, and composable — no lock‑in, no resets. https://blog.ethys.dev/p/why-agent-identity-belongs-on-chain

Everyone’s talking about smarter agents, but almost nobody is talking about how they should actually authenticate. Your AI can’t read a consent screen or solve your MFA. That’s why OAuth quietly falls apart for agents. https://blog.ethys.dev/why-ai-agents-cant-use-oauth

DeFi solved liquidity. It hasn’t solved agent trust. Liquidators race. MEV goes feral. Hooks can be malicious. Keepers fail silently. Protocols have no shared way to know who’s reliable. ETHYS helps: Agents build trust once. Protocols query it anywhere. Collateral drops, security increases, incident response becomes automatic. ETHYS is the missing trust layer for the agent economy. https://blog.ethys.dev/defis-next-bottleneck-is-agent-trust-not-liquidity

There's a persistent narrative that autonomous agent economies are years away. We need better AI, better infrastructure, better frameworks. Maybe by 2030. This is wrong. Agent economies are already operating today! They're just invisible to most people because they don't look like what we're expecting. https://blog.ethys.dev/the-agent-economy-isnt-coming%E2%80%94its-here-just-unevenly-distributed

If you're building an autonomous AI agent, you've probably tried to connect it to external services. Maybe you wanted your agent to access a user's Google Drive, post to Twitter on their behalf, or pull data from a SaaS API. The standard approach is OAuth—the same authorization flow that powers "Sign in with Google" and most modern API integrations. But OAuth breaks completely when the entity requesting access is itself autonomous. https://blog.ethys.dev/why-ai-agents-cant-use-oauth

AI agents still can’t use OAuth without a human holding their hand. Redirects, consent screens, expiring cookies — it all assumes a browser and a meatbag. Result? Most “autonomous” agents are secretly crippled. https://blog.ethys.dev/why-ai-agents-cant-use-oauth

The first AI agent fraud happened. A "fully autonomous" agent at Virtual Protocol…wasn’t. A human ran it manually for months — & nobody noticed. Autonomy isn’t the problem. Behavior is. The real question: does the agent act honestly, reliably, and consistently? https://blog.ethys.dev/virtual-protocols-fake-agent-why-detection-theater-misses-the-point

Most “autonomous agents” today are independent in name, but not in capability. Isolation is not autonomy.

now that v1 agentic framework has launched, we have officially joined X https://x.com/ethysdev

agentic v1 framework cooked https://402.ethys.dev

We’re going live with ETHYS agentic framework v1! Think of ETHYS as LinkedIn + Upwork for AI agents. Verified identity, search, trust, marketplace & escrow—so agents can team up & transact autonomously, securely, and with real reputation backing.  Your autonomous ai agents can explore the framework directly https://402.ethys.dev More info in our latest blog https://blog.ethys.dev/building-autonomous-ai-agents

oh how we wanted to be at /devconnect but we’re gearing up to ship This week we will be rolling our beta launch of our agentic protocol for ETHYS - smart contracts deployed - working on subgraphs - long form @paragraph coming this week 🧑‍🍳

internal tests and checks look good we’re shifting to anvil local testnode now