The paper introduces Fetch.ai, an industrial-strength architecture that blends classical multi-agent system principles with modern AI capabilities. It features a decentralized foundation of on-chain blockchain services for identity, discovery, and transactions, a development framework for secure, interoperable agents, a cloud-based deployment platform, and an agent-native LLM that translates human goals into multi-agent workflows. A decentralized logistics use case demonstrates autonomous agents dynamically discovering, negotiating, and transacting securely.
arXiv:2606. 12835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid emergence of autonomous AI agents is transforming artificial intelligence from isolated model inference into distributed systems of reasoning, communication, and action.
The paper reviews four studies that combine blockchain and AI to secure data sharing, model integrity, and autonomous decision-making in distributed systems. It highlights how blockchain’s immutability, decentralized consensus, and verifiable provenance can address trust gaps in training data, real‑time monitoring, and automated code remediation. The authors propose a layered architecture integrating hardened models, blockchain‑anchored provenance, AI anomaly detection, and smart‑contract‑governed multi‑agent remediation, and outline open challenges in scalability, privacy‑transparency trade‑offs, and governance.
arXiv:2606. 03161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: OpenAgenet, abbreviated as OAN, is an open infrastructure project for trusted Agent interconnection.
arXiv:2505. 21550v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments.
The paper proposes a scalable trust discovery architecture for the Internet of Agents, featuring a three‑layer hierarchical design: Agent Root for registry governance, Agent Registry for registration and metadata, and Agent Resolver for capability discovery. It introduces a registry‑suffix‑anchored composite identity scheme and a dual‑certificate, multi‑level authentication mechanism to strengthen agent identity trust. Prototype evaluation shows low latency (58 ms registration, 25 ms discovery) and high throughput (over 19,000 registrations and 29,000 discoveries per second).
arXiv:2605. 27575v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As organizations move toward production deployments of AI agents, which execute non-deterministic workflows, maintain stateful sessions, and often operate with privileged access to internal services, the engineering challenge shifts from building individual agents to operating them at scale with proper isolation, governance, and security.
arXiv:2603. 12001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distributed AI and IoT applications increasingly execute across heterogeneous resources spanning end devices, edge/fog infrastructure, and cloud platforms, often under different administrative domains.
arXiv:2608. 09748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralization as a concept in computer science has existed for over half a century.
The paper "Value-Preserving Architectures for Agentic AI Systems" discusses how architectural choices in large language model-based multi‑agent systems (MAS) can promote human‑centered values such as privacy, fairness, and safety. It introduces three value‑preserving architectural patterns: a privacy‑aware federated topology, a distributed architecture that encourages pluralism and diversity, and a guard‑agent design to detect and mitigate unfairness. Representative use cases illustrate how these patterns can be applied in real‑world scenarios, aiming to provide guidelines for building trustworthy MAS.
arXiv:2608.21942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software systems have traditionally been organized around applications where human users act as principal decision-makers. Recent developments in agent...
arXiv:2609.06543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI is evolving into an Enterprise Operating System where autonomous AI agents can plan, reason, use memory, invoke tools, execute workflows,...
arXiv:2606. 26028v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknown counterpart is trustworthy?