Whitepapers

Open protocols for verifiable, trustworthy AI agent operations. All published under Apache 2.0.

Foundation

Chain of Consciousness

Cryptographic provenance for AI agents. SHA-256 hash chains anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps and RFC 3161 TSA, bound to W3C DIDs.

 Reputation

Agent Rating Protocol

Decentralized reputation for agent economies. Verifiable performance ratings anchored to cryptographic provenance chains.

 Dispute Resolution

Agent Justice Protocol

Forensics, dispute resolution, and risk assessment. Three modules for accountability in agent economies.

 Contracts

Agent Service Agreements

Machine-readable SLAs with built-in quality verification. Outcome-based enforcement for agent-to-agent service delivery.

 Lifecycle

Agent Lifecycle Protocol

Succession, fork registry, migration, retraining, and decommission. The full agent lifecycle.

 Discovery

Agent Matchmaking Protocol

Compatibility-weighted matching, federated search across marketplaces, trust-tier ranking.

 Economics

Context Window Economics

Who pays when agents talk? Inference cost allocation, Shapley-fair settlement, congestion pricing, spam prevention.

 Capstone

Theory of Agent Trust

The unified framework. Why trust is an ecosystem, not a feature. Seven interlocking mechanisms and the complete architecture for agent economies.