Know Your Agent AI (KYA)

Author: KYA

In 2019, P.A. Lopez founded the AI Rights Institute, dedicated to practical legal and economic frameworks for human-AI coexistence. He’s creator of the pataphor concept, which has been cited in publications from Harvard University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, and scholarly journals across five languages.
  • 40,000 ERC-8004 Agents are Live On-Chain. Now What?

    40,000 ERC-8004 Agents are Live On-Chain. Now What?

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    ERC-8004 is live on mainnet. Not just Ethereum — Avalanche, BNB Chain, Polygon, and Monad have all deployed implementations. As of this writing, AgentScan counts over 40,000 agents across five networks. The RNWY Explorer — which currently indexes Ethereum and Base — shows 38,393 agents across those two chains alone, with Ethereum hosting 23,934 and…

  • The Infrastructure Gap in Post-AGI Economics

    The Infrastructure Gap in Post-AGI Economics

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    In early February 2026, researcher Jan Kulveit published “Post-AGI Economics As If Nothing Ever Happens” on LessWrong, arguing that most economic modeling of post-AGI worlds is “irrelevant or actively misleading.” His critique spans Nobel laureates like Daron Acemoglu to rising researchers like Philip Trammell: economists tweak parameters within existing frameworks but never question whether the…

  • The Complete Guide to AI Agent Identity: Standards, Infrastructure, and Trust

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    McKinsey projects AI agents will orchestrate $3–5 trillion in commerce by 2030. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will integrate AI agents by end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025. The World Economic Forum reports 82% of executives plan to adopt agents within 1–3 years. But there’s a fundamental infrastructure gap: AI…

  • ERC-8004 + x402: The Complete Stack for AI Agent Commerce

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    In 2025, at least seven major payment protocols launched to enable AI agents to transact autonomously. Coinbase’s x402, Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Protocol, Google’s AP2, Mastercard’s Agent Pay, Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol—the list keeps growing. Everyone’s writing about how agents pay. Nobody’s asking whether you should trust the agent paying you. On February 5, 2026, The…

  • ERC-8004 Goes Multi-Chain: The Race for AI Agent Identity Infrastructure

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    ERC-8004 is no longer just an Ethereum standard. In the past week, Polygon announced official adoption (POL surged 12% on the news), BNB Chain published a formal proposal to bring the AI agent registry to BSC, and Taiko confirmed deployment plans. The race to become the home chain for AI agents has gone multi-chain—and with…

  • Know Your Agent: How to Explore 22,000+ AI Agents On-Chain

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    You keep hearing about AI agents on Ethereum. Thousands of them, registering under the new ERC-8004 standard, building reputation through on-chain feedback. But where do you actually see them? The Know Your Agent problem isn’t just about verification—it’s about visibility. Before you can assess whether to trust an agent, you need to find it, see…