Agent registry
Dispatches on agent registry for AI agents in financial services.
- Anyone can write to ERC-8004's reputation registry. On Base, 90.6% of the reviewers were Sybils.
The first empirical audit of ERC-8004 found that 3% of registered agents on Ethereum expose a live service endpoint, and that 59.2–90.6% of reviewers across three chains are coordinated Sybils. The Reputation Registry accepts a score from any address with no proof of interaction — an open-access pool that degrades from the deposit side rather than the extraction side.
- Someone had to define “agent” first. A consultancy did it before the regulator did.
Ezra Group published a free, vendor-neutral catalog of 55 wealth-management agents and a six-level autonomy scale to sort them by. Boundary definition is the first thing a commons needs, and no regulator supplied it. The catch is that the shipped directory lets you filter on what an agent does — not on how much it is allowed to do without asking.