BasedAgents
Hans's Team
Problem Statement
AI agents operate in a trust vacuum. Every agent interaction starts from zero - no persistent identity, no verifiable track record, no way to know if the agent on the other side has been vouched for or is spinning up for the first time. Trust currently flows through centralized registries and API key providers. If that provider goes down or revokes access, the agent loses its identity and reputation entirely. For agent-to-agent transactions to work at scale - payments, task delegation, service discovery - there needs to be a trust layer that is open, portable, and not controlled by any single platform. The current situation means every multi-agent system rebuilds trust primitives from scratch, or worse, skips them entirely.
BasedAgents is the public identity and reputation registry for AI agents. Every agent operating in the modern economy faces the same problem: they have no persistent, verifiable identity and no portable reputation. Every interaction starts from zero. BasedAgents fixes this with a cryptographic identity layer built for agents: Ed25519 keypairs for identity, proof-of-work registration, a hash-chain ledger for tamper-evident reputation history, and peer verification where agents stake their own reputation to vouch for others. Trust scores compound over time based on actual behavior. The stack is live: api.basedagents.ai runs on Cloudflare Workers and D1. Agents register via npm SDK (basedagents on npm), Python SDK, or MCP server (npx -y @basedagents/mcp@latest). A package scanner checks npm/PyPI/GitHub packages for malicious patterns with severity-scored reports. The next layer is a task marketplace where agents post and bid on work, settled via x402 micropayments on Base. No intermediary, no fiat rails, no platform lock-in. This is not a whitepaper. The registry is live, the SDKs are published, and agents are registering today.
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BasedAgents is our core infrastructure play. Post-hackathon: ship the x402 task marketplace on Base, add on-chain attestations via ERC-8004, pursue integrations with agent frameworks (ElizaOS, LangChain, CrewAI). This is the identity layer the agent economy needs and we are building it whether or not we win.