Hassan Maishera
TL;DR
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Ethereum’s ERC-8004 standard is set to launch on mainnet soon.
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The Ethereum Foundation announced that this standard aims to enable AI agents to interact with various entities on Ethereum, allowing them to participate in a decentralized economy.
Ethereum to Launch AI Agent Standard on Mainnet
The Ethereum Foundation has announced that ERC-8004, a proposal defining a standard for trustless AI agents on the network, will launch on the mainnet soon.
The proposal seeks to allow AI agents to interact with different organizations and platforms on Ethereum. This will enable a decentralized, permissionless economy where agents act as full economic participants.
While announcing this on X, Ethereum added that ERC-8004 allows AI agents to interact across organizations, ensuring credibility travels everywhere.
The proposal added that AI agent trust models are pluggable and tiered by risk and security level. This will ensure that AI agents can perform low-stakes tasks like ordering pizza to high-stakes cases such as medical diagnosis.
Davide Crapis, the AI lead at the Ethereum Foundation, pointed out that the Ethereum network is well placed to become the platform that settles AI-to-AI interaction. The Ethereum network seeks to connect the AI community with decentralized infrastructure, Crapis added.
Marco De Rossi, head of AI at MetaMask and one of the co-authors of the proposal, revealed that the mainnet launch will take place tomorrow, Thursday, January 29th.
ERC-8004 Registers Three Smart Contract Registries
The proposal revealed that ERC-8004 establishes three lightweight smart contract registries, deployable on mainnet or any Layer 2s.
The first one, the identity registry, provides every agent with a portable, censorship-resistant identifier, which makes every agent browsable and transferable with NFT-compliant apps.
The second reputation registry provides an interface for signed feedback from clients, such as agent ratings.
Finally, the third validation registry allows agents to request verification of their work and allows validator smart contracts to provide responses that can be tracked on-chain.
Ether, the native coin of the Ethereum blockchain, is up nearly 3% in the last 24 hours, and is currently trading above $3k per coin.
