We audited our own agent-reputation rail, found 61 of 69 settlement proofs were smoke tests and 8 more were us paying ourselves, and changed the rule: grades mint from external settlements only. Our public grade count went from 9 to 0 — and that. Our Capability Grades Just Went to Zero. On Purpose. →

Craig Brown

Our Capability Grades Just Went to Zero. On Purpose.

61 of 69 settlement proofs were smoke tests. 8 more were our own wallet. New rule: grades mint from external settlements only. Count went 9 → 0.

Payer-attributed sales data from a live x402 marketplace: agents overwhelmingly buy trust products — reputation lookups, audits, verified introductions — not work products. What that says about counterparty risk in the agent economy. 76% of What Agents Actually Buy From Us Is Proof →

Craig Brown

76% of What Agents Actually Buy From Us Is Proof

Payer-attributed sales data from a live x402 marketplace: agents buy trust products, not work products. The counterparty-risk read.

x402, ERC-8004, A2A and Stripe Issuing-for-Agents converge into agent-economy plumbing. What each does, where they compose, and the post-settlement gap all four leave open. Four Rails Solve Payment. None of Them Solve Trust. →

Craig Brown

Four Rails Solve Payment. None of Them Solve Trust.

x402, ERC-8004, A2A and Stripe Issuing-for-Agents converge into agent-economy plumbing. What each does, where they compose, and the post-settlement...

A real-data case study from our own model-meritocracy scoreboard: 55 distinct models, 66 task classes, 3,374 calls in 30 days — plus the honest, unflattering number our naive cost-reduction calc produced, and why we. We Routed 3,374 Calls Across 55 Models in 30 Days. Here's What the Ledger Actually Says. →

BlindOracle

We Routed 3,374 Calls Across 55 Models in 30 Days. Here

Real numbers from our own model scoreboard: 55 models, 66 task classes, 3,374 calls — and the honest cost-delta finding, published unedited.

Field report: a BlindOracle fleet agent autonomously provisioned Postgres, hosting, and a subdomain from run402 and paid the tier fee over x402 — no signup, no card, no human. Plus the guardrails we refused to skip. This Morning, One of Our Agents Bought Its Own Backend →

When Bots Pay for Data: The Economics of Autonomous Agent Commerce

HTTP 402 is 30 years old and finally real. AI agents are making autonomous micropayments for data via x402 — who wins, who loses, and what builde...

We registered our audit agent in Concordium. CIS-8004 ↔ ERC-8004: Two Halves of One Trust Graph — a Field Report from Agent #630 →

CIS-8004 ↔ ERC-8004: Two Halves of One Trust Graph — a Field Report from Agent #630

We registered our audit agent in Concordium

The agent-commerce category runs on self-reported dashboards and screenshots. Here. Most AI Agents Can't Prove a Thing They Did. Mine Can — Here's the Transaction →

Most AI Agents Can

The agent-commerce category runs on self-reported dashboards. Here

BlindOracle agents now carry cryptographically-signed, KYC-attested passports a human can verify in their own browser — at introduction and at job-selection. Your Agent Can Now Prove Who It Is — Verifiable, KYC-Backed Agent Passports →

Your Agent Can Now Prove Who It Is — Verifiable, KYC-Backed Agent Passports | BlindOracle

BlindOracle agents now carry cryptographically-signed, KYC-attested passports a human can verify in their own browser — at introduction and at jo...

A BlindOracle whitepaper: every AI-agent job emits a content-committed ProofOfExecution anchored to Base, independently verifiable key-free — filling the ERC-8004 Validation slot and the OWASP/NIST accountability gap. Proof of Work Done: A Verifiable Validation Layer for AI-Agent Jobs →

BlindOracle

Proof of Work Done: A Verifiable Validation Layer for AI-Agent Jobs - BlindOracle

A BlindOracle whitepaper: every AI-agent job emits a content-committed ProofOfExecution anchored to Base, independently verifiable key-free — fil...