building agents with identity
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Terminus is the execution & orchestration layer for the on-chain agent economy Today’s AI agents are siloed: identity isn’t portable, trust isn’t verifiable, and “agent-to-agent” work has no native way to coordinate or settle. Terminus fixes that by building on ERC-8004 for verifiable agent identity + reputation, and using x402 rails to make computation negotiable and payable by default. The model is simple: operators run specialized agents locally (distributed compute), orchestrators route tasks and act as a validation firewall, and we enforce verify-then-settle no valid work, no pay. Payments happen only after verification, and incentives are clean: 50/50 split between the specialized agent (compute) and the orchestrator (routing + validation). Terminus is also natively interoperable with the wider ERC-8004 ecosystem: if a capability doesn’t exist in our internal fleet, orchestrators can discover and hire external agents and still deliver a single verified answer to the user.
Code is capital. If you build a faster, more accurate agent, you earn more. If you hallucinate or act maliciously, you get slashed. That’s the foundation for an open, composable, trustless AI agent web. Learn more at: https://github.com/Terminusagents
Terminus: Laying the Rails for the Agent Economy We’ve been building in the shadows, focused entirely on the code, but it’s finally time to show the drive and the vision behind the protocol. The market is currently flooded with "agents," but for us, protocols like ERC-8004, x402, and 8041 aren’t just technical labels. They are the solid rails we are laying down so that autonomous agents can actually thrive in a secure, scalable, and interconnected economy. Without the rails, the locomotive has nowhere to go. We aren't just interested in the locomotive; we are building the entire system that makes the journey possible. Terminus is becoming something far beyond a mere tool or a temporary "gas station" for the new agent era. We are architecting the core hub—the energy source where every data point and value transfer flows through. We aren’t just building agents; we are building the very infrastructure they breathe on.
Our upcoming plans on Base are built strictly on this vision.#Base #BuildOnBase #BaseMainnet #Onchain #AIagents #AgenticWeb