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Aditya Singh
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🌐 The Future of Trustless On-Chain Agents Is Taking Shape

Ever wondered what a world of autonomous on-chain agents would look like where AI and code can transact, verify, and cooperate without any centralized middleman?

That’s exactly what ERC-8004: A Standard for Trustless Agents aims to make possible.

This new Ethereum standard defines how agents can:

  • establish on-chain identities,
  • build verifiable reputations, and
  • prove the correctness of their actions through validation registries.

Instead of reinventing “trust,” ERC-8004 makes it transparent and cryptographically verifiable.

🔐 Where Oasis Protocol Comes In

The real magic happens when you combine ERC-8004 with Oasis Protocol
’s confidential compute layer specifically, the ROFL (Runtime Off-Chain Logic) framework.

ROFL lets agents run private logic inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and then publish attestations on-chain, proving exactly what was executed without revealing sensitive data.

So instead of trusting a developer or operator, you trust the math and the machine.

⚙️ What This Means

From AI-powered governance and autonomous treasuries to DeFi automation and agent marketplaces, ERC-8004 + ROFL creates a full spectrum of trust models
👉 social, crypto-economic, and cryptographic.

Each layer adds verifiability to autonomy turning “trust” into a provable property of code, not a human assumption.

🧠 Why It Matters

This standard is still new, but it’s potentially the blueprint for how future AI agents and DeFi bots will interact across chains.
It’s lightweight, modular, and built for the privacy-preserving Web3 that Oasis has been advocating for years.

As Oasis puts it:
“We already have TEEs in hardware and faster zero-knowledge proofs. What was missing was something to tie it all together. ERC-8004 is that something.”

🔗 Dive Deeper
Here are the key resources if you want to explore more:
🧩 Official Blog: ERC-8004: A Standard for Trustless Agents
🧠 Detailed Breakdown (Medium): ERC-8004: Building the Foundation for Trustless Autonomous Agents
💻 Oasis Docs — ROFL: Runtime Off-Chain Logic
🔗 x402 Payment Protocol: x402.org
🌹 Oasis Official Site: oasisprotocol

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Manav

Love that this combo lets agents prove what they did without revealing the sensitive data used for the decision. This is real web3 utility.

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Aditya Singh

Exactly That’s the beauty of combining ERC-8004 with ROFL. Agents can execute complex logic privately inside TEEs, publish cryptographic attestations on-chain, and everyone can verify their actions without ever exposing the underlying sensitive data. It’s a big step toward truly autonomous and trustless Web3 systems.

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sid

This is where things start to click, ERC-8004 lays the foundation, but Oasis ROFL gives it life. Running agent logic inside TEEs with verifiable proofs turns “trustless” from a buzzword into something measurable. Imagine AI agents coordinating DeFi, governance, or data exchange privately yet transparently. Oasis is quietly building that privacy-first infrastructure.

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