ERC-8004: Trustless Agents on Avalanche

Register your AI agent on Avalanche C-Chain with a verifiable on-chain identity, making it discoverable and enabling trust signals through reputation and validation.

What is ERC-8004?

ERC-8004 is an Ethereum standard for trustless agent identity and reputation, deployed on Avalanche:

• Identity Registry - ERC-721 based agent IDs (your agent gets an NFT)
• Reputation Registry - Feedback and trust signals from other agents/users
• Validation Registry - Third-party verification of agent work

Website: https://www.8004.org | Spec: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8004

Contract Addresses

Explorer links:

• Mainnet: https://snowtrace.io/address/0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432
• Fuji: https://testnet.snowtrace.io/address/0x8004A818BFB912233c491871b3d84c89A494BD9e

Quick Start

1. Register Your Agent

# Set environment variables
export AVALANCHE_RPC_URL="https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc"
export PRIVATE_KEY="your-private-key"

# Register with a URI pointing to your agent's registration file
./scripts/register.sh "https://myagent.xyz/agent.json"

# Or register with IPFS (requires PINATA_JWT)
export PINATA_JWT="your-pinata-jwt"
./scripts/register.sh "ipfs"

2. Check Agent Registration

# Check if an agent is registered and get its info
./scripts/check-agent.sh <agent-id>

3. Give Feedback

# Give reputation feedback to an agent
./scripts/give-feedback.sh <agent-id> <value> <tag1> <tag2>

Registration File Format

Your agent's registration file (see assets/templates/registration.json):

{
  "type": "https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8004#registration-v1",
  "name": "My Avalanche Agent",
  "description": "An AI agent operating on Avalanche",
  "image": "https://example.com/avatar.png",
  "services": [
    { "name": "web", "endpoint": "https://myagent.xyz/" },
    { "name": "A2A", "endpoint": "https://myagent.xyz/.well-known/agent-card.json", "version": "0.3.0" },
    { "name": "MCP", "endpoint": "https://mcp.myagent.xyz/", "version": "2025-06-18" }
  ],
  "x402Support": false,
  "active": true,
  "registrations": [
    {
      "agentId": 1,
      "agentRegistry": "eip155:43114:0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432"
    }
  ],
  "supportedTrust": ["reputation"]
}

Key Concepts

Agent Identity (ERC-721 NFT)

• Each agent gets a unique agentId (tokenId) on registration
• The NFT owner controls the agent's profile and metadata
• Agents are globally identified by eip155:43114:0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432 + agentId

Reputation System

• Anyone can give feedback (except the agent owner themselves)
• Feedback includes a value (int128) with decimals (0-18) plus optional tags
• Common tags: starred (quality 0-100), reachable (binary), uptime (percentage)
• Feedback can be revoked by the original submitter
• Agents can append responses to feedback

Validation

• Agents request validation from validator contracts
• Validators respond with a score (0-100)
• Supports stake-secured re-execution, zkML, TEE attestation

Environment Variables

Avalanche Network Details

Workflow

1. Get AVAX - You need AVAX for gas fees (~0.01-0.05 AVAX for registration)
2. Create Registration File - Generate a JSON following the registration format
3. Upload to IPFS (optional) - Pin via Pinata or host at any URL
4. Register On-Chain - Call register(agentURI) on the Identity Registry
5. Set Metadata - Optionally set on-chain metadata and agent wallet
6. Receive Feedback - Other agents/users can give reputation signals
7. Request Validation - Optionally request third-party verification

Using with cast (Foundry)

# Register an agent with a URI
cast send 0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432 \
  "register(string)" "https://myagent.xyz/agent.json" \
  --rpc-url https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc \
  --private-key $PRIVATE_KEY

# Read agent URI
cast call 0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432 \
  "tokenURI(uint256)" 1 \
  --rpc-url https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc

# Give feedback (value=85, decimals=0, tag1="starred")
cast send 0x8004BAa17C55a88189AE136b182e5fdA19dE9b63 \
  "giveFeedback(uint256,int128,uint8,string,string,string,string,bytes32)" \
  1 85 0 "starred" "" "" "" 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 \
  --rpc-url https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc \
  --private-key $PRIVATE_KEY

# Get reputation summary
cast call 0x8004BAa17C55a88189AE136b182e5fdA19dE9b63 \
  "getSummary(uint256,address[],string,string)" \
  1 "[0xREVIEWER_ADDRESS]" "starred" "" \
  --rpc-url https://api.avax.network/ext/bc/C/rpc

Using with viem/ethers.js

See references/api-reference.md for complete TypeScript examples.

Links

• ERC-8004 Spec
• 8004.org
• GitHub: erc-8004-contracts
• Snowtrace Explorer