ERC-8004: Trustless Agents — Building Cross-Organizational Agent Discovery and Trust with Reputation + Verification
Abstract This article translates and analyzes the ERC-8004: Trustless Agents proposal (draft version), which adds a “trust layer” on top of the existing Agent-to-Agent (A2A Protocol), enabling participants to discover, select, and interact with agents in cross-organizational contexts without pre-existing trust. It introduces three lightweight and on-chain registries: Identity, Reputation, and Validation; while delegating application-level logic details to off-chain components. Original Proposal: ERC-8004 on EIPs Motivation The existing A2A Protocol already covers agent authentication, skill announcement via AgentCard, direct messaging, and complete task lifecycle collaboration....