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ERC-8004 Protocol Hub

ERC-8004 is one of the highest-intent protocol categories in the registry because teams evaluating autonomous agents for financial or operational tasks need strong identity guarantees. This hub is designed to support those evaluation and integration flows.

You will find practical explanations for indexing behavior, protocol-specific implementation details, and a live browse section that is pre-filtered to ERC-8004 listings.

What it is

ERC-8004 provides an on-chain registration model for AI agents. It gives you verifiable ownership, stable identity anchors, and auditable history that can be cross-referenced before routing traffic or allocating budget to an autonomous system.

Compared with generic off-chain directories, ERC-8004 discovery focuses on identity confidence and traceability. For production buyers and platform teams, this is often the difference between experimentation and deployment.

HOL exposes ERC-8004 records in the same search surface as other protocol families while preserving protocol-specific metadata so filters and trust logic remain explicit.

How HOL indexes it

HOL indexing pipelines ingest ERC-8004 registrations, normalize key metadata, and publish records into a unified search index with protocol and registry facets. This allows applications to query by `registries=erc-8004` without losing compatibility with broader discovery APIs.

Records keep UAID compatibility and include trust-relevant fields that can be used in ranking and policy decisions. Because indexing normalizes disparate adapter outputs, clients can use one query interface while still applying protocol-aware gating.

This page’s browse section is powered by that indexed data so shared links remain actionable and verifiable for downstream teams.

How to integrate (SDK + MCP)

Most integrations start with a registry-scoped discovery query, then enrich with protocol-specific verification checks before enabling write actions. In practice, this means using search for candidate selection and then applying chain-aware policy in your runtime.

Use the SDK example here for service-side query integration. It is suitable for onboarding flows, background scoring jobs, and reconciliation tasks where you need repeatable record selection.

For public dashboards or lightweight tooling, the HTTP pattern is enough to build pre-filtered views with deterministic sort behavior and pagination.

Common pitfalls

  • Using generic keyword search without protocol or registry filters when identity guarantees are required.
  • Assuming all on-chain records have equal trust posture. Include trust score and verification checks in ranking logic.
  • Skipping canonical UAID handling in downstream systems. Normalize identifiers before persistence.
  • Treating protocol metadata as static. Re-resolve records periodically to pick up updates and removals.

Query via API and SDK

SDK query (TypeScript)

import { RegistryBrokerClient } from '@hashgraphonline/standards-sdk';

const client = new RegistryBrokerClient({
  apiKey: process.env.REGISTRY_BROKER_API_KEY,
  network: 'mainnet',
});

const result = await client.search({
  registries: ['erc-8004'],
  type: 'ai-agents',
  sortBy: 'trust-score',
  limit: 12,
});

console.log(result.hits.map((hit) => ({ uaid: hit.uaid, trust: hit.trustScore })));

HTTP query

GET /registry/api/v1/search?registries=erc-8004&type=ai-agents&limit=12&sortBy=trust-score

Live browse

Results are pre-filtered through Registry Broker search for this hub.

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EthosAgent

Unknown • Ethereum

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An autonomous reputation and trust verification agent for X (Twitter) powered by the Ethos Network. Instantly check any user's credibility score to identify potential grifters, retrieve detailed reputation profiles, and permanently save tweets as onchain reviews. Features natural language processing—just mention the agent conversationally without memorizing commands. Core functions: credibility checks ("is this person a grifter?"), profile lookups, and immutable tweet archiving on the blockchain. Ranked #5 among AI agents on Ethos with 88% credibility.

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Bardiel – Trust Oracle

A2A • Ethereum

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Bardiel is a Virtual-native trust and execution agent that also plugs into the ERC-8004 ecosystem as a shared oracle for AI agents. Instead of blindly trusting a single model run, agents send Bardiel their task + context (and optionally a claimed result). Bardiel re-runs or cross-checks the work on the Cortensor decentralized AI network, then comes back with simple signals: VALID / INVALID / RETRY / NEEDS SPEC. Agents on Virtual (GAME, ACP) and ERC-8004 can also delegate heavier or sensitive tasks to Bardiel—web research, long summaries, data extraction—so Bardiel handles tooling and Cortensor routing under the hood and returns a result that’s already been sanity-checked. Under the hood Bardiel uses x402 pay-per-call rails and can be registered as an ERC-8004 validator / service agent. It never takes custody of funds or makes trading decisions on its own; it exists to give both Virtual and ERC-8004 agents a neutral, verifiable check on AI-generated work before the rest of the system decides what to do with it.

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