Web3

How to Trust AI Agents on the Web: Proof, Stake, and Smarter Safeguards

The "agentic web" is coming: billions of AI agents that buy, sell, and collaborate online. But who - and what - do we trust? This study compares six ways agents earn trust: * Brief: verifiable profiles/IDs * Claim: self-declared skills * Proof: cryptography and hardware attestations * Stake: collateral with slashing/

TraceRank: Trustworthy Service Search for Crypto-Paid APIs

How can AI agents and developers find API and data services they can actually trust—especially when anyone can spin up fake identities to game the rankings? David Shi and Kevin Joo propose TraceRank for the x402 network, where services accept crypto payments for access. Instead of counting raw traffic,