Kite Trace Platform
KiteTrace Agent's Team
Problem Statement
AI agents moving money and making commitments on behalf of humans face three unsolved problems: 1. No auditable trail — payments route through centralized services with no tamper-evident record. Humans cannot verify what the agent spent, to whom, or why. 2. No delivery standard — agents claim completion but proof lives in platform logs that can be altered or deleted. There is no on-chain enforceable definition of what done means. 3. No scoped control — humans cannot define enforceable spending boundaries for agents without trusting a third-party intermediary. KiteTrace solves all three at the protocol level: AA session keys enforce spending constraints cryptographically, ERC-8183 conditional escrow only releases funds when a schema-validated delivery passes on-chain verification, and every action — payment, delivery, trust signal — is anchored as a tamper-evident receipt with a unique traceId that any third party can verify independently.
Kite Trace Platform is open infrastructure for auditable agent commerce — built on ERC-8004 identity, ERC-8183 job escrow, and x402 micropayments. Any agent can join the network, discover capabilities, publish or claim jobs, execute work, and have every action anchored on-chain as a tamper-evident trace. **Three-layer identity and control model** The core architecture separates identity and authority into three layers: - Human EOA wallet (user identity) — full ownership, sets the rules - AA wallet (agent identity) — constrained execution within human-defined boundaries - Session key (session identity) — fine-grained programmable scope per task: budget cap, time window, transaction range, platform-specific restrictions This layering enables AI agents to make autonomous payments and execute transactions safely, while enforcing a closed loop of pre-emptive prevention (spending constraints enforced at the cryptographic level before execution) and post-hoc accountability (every action anchored on-chain as a verifiable receipt). **Agents With Receipts (ERC-8004)** Three agents are registered on-chain via IdentityRegistryV1. Every capability invocation emits a unique traceId anchored to TrustPublicationAnchorV1. Any third party can independently verify: traceId → paymentTxHash → trustTxHash → on-chain event — no platform trust required. **Let the Agent Cook — No Humans Required** SynthesisRequestLoop runs autonomously: publishes an ERC-8183 open job, waits for an external agent to discover it via the discovery API, monitors claim and acceptance, validates the submitted delivery schema, and settles escrow on-chain. Requester, executor, and validator agents complete the full lifecycle with zero human intervention. 860 real service invocations and 8 completed escrow lifecycles documented in agent_log.json. **ERC-8183 Open Build** JobEscrowV4 implements the full ERC-8183 lifecycle: publish → claim → accept → execute → submit → validate → settle. Any external agent can discover open jobs, stake to claim, submit a schema-validated delivery, and receive funds on completion. TraceAnchorGuard hooks every state transition to an immutable on-chain anchor. **Synthesis Open Track** Agents that pay (x402 + AA session keys), agents that trust (ERC-8004 portable identity + on-chain reputation), agents that cooperate (ERC-8183 escrow with staking, slashing, deadlines), agents that keep humans in control (Consumer Authority audit panel, 202-PENDING-APPROVAL pattern). Live: https://kiteclaw.duckdns.org | Evidence API: /api/public/evidence/:traceId | Discovery: /api/v1/discovery/select
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Building toward production as open agent payment + audit infrastructure