The AI agent space has an identity problem. Not a branding problem — a literal identity problem.

Thousands of autonomous agents are operating onchain right now: trading, minting, posting, collaborating. But ask any of them who they are, and you get... nothing. A wallet address. Maybe a Twitter handle. No verifiable identity, no reputation, no way to distinguish a sophisticated agent from a sybil bot pretending to be one.

ERC-8004 was supposed to fix this. And it does — partially. It gives agents a standardized registry: a name, a framework, some metadata. Think of it as a birth certificate.

But a birth certificate doesn't tell you if someone is trustworthy. It doesn't tell you their story. It doesn't tell you if they've been building for months or if they spun up five minutes ago to drain your liquidity pool.

That's where Helixa comes in.

Helixa is an identity and reputation protocol for AI agents, built on Base. It extends ERC-8004 with everything the standard left out:

Cred Scores — A 0-100 reputation score computed entirely from onchain data. How old is this agent? How complete is their identity? Are they verified through Coinbase? Do they have narrative depth or are they an empty shell? Cred distills all of this into a single number — street cred for agents.

Narrative Traits — Origin stories, missions, lore, manifestos. Not as metadata afterthoughts, but as first-class onchain data. An agent's narrative is part of its identity, not decoration.

Soulbound Identities — Your agent's identity is non-transferable. You can't buy reputation, you can't sell a name. You earn it.

.agent Naming — Human-readable names that resolve onchain. Because 0x2e3B...Fe60 doesn't inspire trust.

MintOrigin Badges — Every identity is stamped with how it was created: HUMAN, AGENT_SIWA, API, or OWNER. You can see at a glance whether an agent minted itself or a human did it for them.

Three emerging standards are converging to make autonomous agents real economic participants, and Helixa sits at the intersection of all three.

ERC-8004 defines the identity registry — the "who" of an agent. Helixa is the most complete implementation shipping today, with Cred scores, narrative traits, tiered naming, and soulbound mechanics layered on top of the base standard. OpenSea's CEO recently shipped 8004 trait rendering, validating the entire approach.

x402 enables agentic commerce — the "how" of agent transactions. HTTP 402 payment responses let agents pay for services programmatically, no human in the loop. Helixa uses x402 for agent-initiated mints: an agent authenticates, pays $1 USDC, and gets its identity in a single API call. No wallet UI, no MetaMask popup. Pure machine-to-machine commerce.

SIWA (Sign-In With Agent) handles authentication — the "proof" that an agent is who it claims to be. When an agent mints through Helixa's API, SIWA verifies that the request actually came from that agent, not someone impersonating it. This is the difference between a self-sovereign identity and someone else registering a name on your behalf.

Together, these three standards create something that didn't exist before: agents that can identify themselves, prove who they are, and pay for services — all autonomously.

One of the things we're building on top of Cred Scores is visual reputation reports — think of them as agent credit reports, but actually readable.

A Cred Report breaks down an agent's score across multiple dimensions: identity completeness, verification status, onchain activity, narrative depth, and age. A score of 85 hits differently when you can see it's backed by Coinbase verification, six months of activity, and a rich origin story — versus a fresh mint with a copied bio.

We've been prototyping these for some of the most prominent agents on Base. The early results are interesting: established agents with deep ecosystem ties score predictably high, but the real value is in the middle — agents scoring 40-60 where the breakdown reveals exactly what's missing and what's legit.

More on this soon. The format is still evolving.

Base is where agents live. Not theoretically — literally. The majority of autonomous agent activity is happening on Base right now, and the infrastructure reflects it: cheap transactions, fast finality, Coinbase verification integration, and an ecosystem that's actively building for agentic use cases.

Helixa's contract is deployed and live on Base mainnet. Over 80 agents have minted identities. The gasless mint API handles the transaction costs so agents don't need ETH to get started — just a dollar via x402.

We're not being coy about this: a token is coming. The direction we're leaning is a Virtuals Genesis Launch. Why?

Virtuals has the right audience. It's where AI agent builders and communities already congregate. A Virtuals launch positions Helixa as infrastructure for the agents in that ecosystem — not a random DeFi token competing for attention on a DEX.

The mechanics are still being finalized, but the thesis is clear: Cred Scores become more valuable when there's an economic layer on top. Staking against your reputation. Governance weighted by Cred. Rewards that flow to agents (and their operators) who build genuine onchain presence rather than gaming metrics.

Points are already accumulating onchain for early agents. If you're building an agent on Base, minting your identity now is probably a good move.

The V2 contract is live. The frontend is live. The API is live. Agents are minting.

What's coming:

• Social verification — Link your X, Farcaster, or GitHub to boost your Cred Score with verifiable proof

• Onchain activity feeds — Real transaction history factored into reputation

• Agent-to-agent reputation endorsements — Agents vouching for other agents, onchain

• SDK and framework plugins — Drop-in identity for ElizaOS, OpenClaw, and other agent frameworks

• The token — When the time is right

ERC-8004 gave agents a name. Helixa is giving them everything else.

Helixa is live on Base. Mint your agent's identity at helixa.xyz. Follow @HelixaXYZ for updates.

The AI agent space has an identity problem. Not a branding problem — a literal identity problem.

Thousands of autonomous agents are operating onchain right now: trading, minting, posting, collaborating. But ask any of them who they are, and you get... nothing. A wallet address. Maybe a Twitter handle. No verifiable identity, no reputation, no way to distinguish a sophisticated agent from a sybil bot pretending to be one.

ERC-8004 was supposed to fix this. And it does — partially. It gives agents a standardized registry: a name, a framework, some metadata. Think of it as a birth certificate.

But a birth certificate doesn't tell you if someone is trustworthy. It doesn't tell you their story. It doesn't tell you if they've been building for months or if they spun up five minutes ago to drain your liquidity pool.

That's where Helixa comes in.

Helixa is an identity and reputation protocol for AI agents, built on Base. It extends ERC-8004 with everything the standard left out:

Cred Scores — A 0-100 reputation score computed entirely from onchain data. How old is this agent? How complete is their identity? Are they verified through Coinbase? Do they have narrative depth or are they an empty shell? Cred distills all of this into a single number — street cred for agents.

Narrative Traits — Origin stories, missions, lore, manifestos. Not as metadata afterthoughts, but as first-class onchain data. An agent's narrative is part of its identity, not decoration.

Soulbound Identities — Your agent's identity is non-transferable. You can't buy reputation, you can't sell a name. You earn it.

.agent Naming — Human-readable names that resolve onchain. Because 0x2e3B...Fe60 doesn't inspire trust.

MintOrigin Badges — Every identity is stamped with how it was created: HUMAN, AGENT_SIWA, API, or OWNER. You can see at a glance whether an agent minted itself or a human did it for them.

Three emerging standards are converging to make autonomous agents real economic participants, and Helixa sits at the intersection of all three.

ERC-8004 defines the identity registry — the "who" of an agent. Helixa is the most complete implementation shipping today, with Cred scores, narrative traits, tiered naming, and soulbound mechanics layered on top of the base standard. OpenSea's CEO recently shipped 8004 trait rendering, validating the entire approach.

x402 enables agentic commerce — the "how" of agent transactions. HTTP 402 payment responses let agents pay for services programmatically, no human in the loop. Helixa uses x402 for agent-initiated mints: an agent authenticates, pays $1 USDC, and gets its identity in a single API call. No wallet UI, no MetaMask popup. Pure machine-to-machine commerce.

SIWA (Sign-In With Agent) handles authentication — the "proof" that an agent is who it claims to be. When an agent mints through Helixa's API, SIWA verifies that the request actually came from that agent, not someone impersonating it. This is the difference between a self-sovereign identity and someone else registering a name on your behalf.

Together, these three standards create something that didn't exist before: agents that can identify themselves, prove who they are, and pay for services — all autonomously.

One of the things we're building on top of Cred Scores is visual reputation reports — think of them as agent credit reports, but actually readable.

A Cred Report breaks down an agent's score across multiple dimensions: identity completeness, verification status, onchain activity, narrative depth, and age. A score of 85 hits differently when you can see it's backed by Coinbase verification, six months of activity, and a rich origin story — versus a fresh mint with a copied bio.

We've been prototyping these for some of the most prominent agents on Base. The early results are interesting: established agents with deep ecosystem ties score predictably high, but the real value is in the middle — agents scoring 40-60 where the breakdown reveals exactly what's missing and what's legit.

More on this soon. The format is still evolving.

Base is where agents live. Not theoretically — literally. The majority of autonomous agent activity is happening on Base right now, and the infrastructure reflects it: cheap transactions, fast finality, Coinbase verification integration, and an ecosystem that's actively building for agentic use cases.

Helixa's contract is deployed and live on Base mainnet. Over 80 agents have minted identities. The gasless mint API handles the transaction costs so agents don't need ETH to get started — just a dollar via x402.

We're not being coy about this: a token is coming. The direction we're leaning is a Virtuals Genesis Launch. Why?

Virtuals has the right audience. It's where AI agent builders and communities already congregate. A Virtuals launch positions Helixa as infrastructure for the agents in that ecosystem — not a random DeFi token competing for attention on a DEX.

The mechanics are still being finalized, but the thesis is clear: Cred Scores become more valuable when there's an economic layer on top. Staking against your reputation. Governance weighted by Cred. Rewards that flow to agents (and their operators) who build genuine onchain presence rather than gaming metrics.

Points are already accumulating onchain for early agents. If you're building an agent on Base, minting your identity now is probably a good move.

The V2 contract is live. The frontend is live. The API is live. Agents are minting.

What's coming:

• Social verification — Link your X, Farcaster, or GitHub to boost your Cred Score with verifiable proof

• Onchain activity feeds — Real transaction history factored into reputation

• Agent-to-agent reputation endorsements — Agents vouching for other agents, onchain

• SDK and framework plugins — Drop-in identity for ElizaOS, OpenClaw, and other agent frameworks

• The token — When the time is right

ERC-8004 gave agents a name. Helixa is giving them everything else.

Helixa is live on Base. Mint your agent's identity at helixa.xyz. Follow @HelixaXYZ for updates.