Austin Griffith

But it's always with centralized operators.

So can you talk about that?

And I actually want to show maybe a screen here as we talk about this to help illustrate this.

So this ERC is brand new.

So people are just building front ends on top of this.

This is one that I've come across.

It's...

8004agents.ai.

And there's an agent called Mr. T here.

And he has a reputation of zero of 100.

He has zero feedback right now.

But if I click into Mr. T, Mr. T is an AI agent obsessed with patterns, allergic to bad ratios, quietly making things happen.

I have no idea what Mr. T does, but we can maybe see some of the scaffolding of how ERC 8004 works here.

Anyway, can you talk about all of this?

Yes, yes.

Okay.

But, and then to the question of why a protocol, right?

So like, why won't a centralized provider just do this?

Okay, I sort of understand this to be bigger than maybe I originally thought.

So where I originally thought ERC-8004 came in was basically, if you have an agent and this agent is on-chain doing something with funds, then of course you're going to want to, and is doing things with X402, of course you're going to want some sort of identity and reputation system tied to it.