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?
By Xihan Xiong, Zelin Li, Wei Wei, Qin Wang, William Knottenbelt, Zhipeng Wang
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? The ERC-8004 protocol addresses this challenge with the first permissionless trust layer for AI agent economies, built around three on-chain registries for Identity, Reputation, and Validation.
DeFiRank is a federated learning-based pairwise ranking framework designed to improve governance in decentralized financial networks. It allows multiple institutions to collaboratively train a ranking model without sharing private transaction data, capturing network-wide behavioural patterns such as diversity of counterparties, multi-application usage, and transaction frequency. Evaluated on a real-world blockchain dataset, DeFiRank achieves ranking performance close to a centralized baseline while preserving data privacy and maintaining ranking stability, enabling reliable provider promotion and demotion decisions.
By Zahra Batool, Michael Duchesne, Kaiwen Zhang, Ulrich Aivodji
arXiv:2609.21325v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Agentic marketplaces are emerging where AI agents with varying capabilities autonomously complete specialized tasks for buyers. A major challenge of su...
By Steve Drew, Jiayu Zhou
Incentive programs are central to user acquisition in decentralized finance, but many reward systems rely on raw volume, transaction count, and wallet count, making them vulnerable to bots and sybil operations. We present ZAPs, a reward attribution framework that combines economic contribution scoring with adversarial robustness.
arXiv:2607. 27859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incentive programs are central to user acquisition in decentralized finance, but many reward systems rely on raw volume, transaction count, and wallet count, making them vulnerable to bots and sybil operations.
By Girish G N, Ashutosh Sahoo, Ajay Bhat, Akshay SP, Gurukiran S, Parag Paul, Dhanashekar Kandaswamy