8004: Bring Agents On Chain
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Speaker: YQ
Type: Lightning Talk
Expertise: No prior knowledge
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2026
8004 is an Ethereum standard with registries for agent identity, reputation and validation. 8004scan indexes them, with an explorer and public API that show each agent’s owner, advertised endpoints and feedback history. We use its data to ask how agent activity should be measured.
Registration counts are a weak indicator of activity. Between 20 and 25 October, agents on Base rose from about 222,000 to over one million. Over the same period, agents on Ethereum and its L2s grew 3.5-fold and their feedback 12%, so feedback per agent fell from 2.00 to 0.64. On 31 October, BNB Chain held 24% of agents but 1.5% of feedback. In July, 2.24% of the 385,998 registered agents passed our health check.
We propose that every published agent metric report five fields, namely the property, numerator, denominator, observation time and known limits. We also discuss Alpharc, our market on Robinhood Chain, Arc and Base, where reputation derives from other users’ verified onchain trades.
