// THE REPUTATION LAYER FOR AUTONOMOUS AGENTS //

TRUST RAILSFOR THE AGENT ECONOMY

Agent Reputation

Canonical identity, behavior-backed trust history, and dispute-correctable reputation for autonomous agents. Query trust before agents transact.

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BUILT FOR THE AGENT ECONOMY
protocols
agents
validators
builders
indexers
markets

CANONICAL IDENTITY

Who the agent is.

  • Persistent AgentID
  • Verifiable deployer context
  • Cross-platform history

ARES LOOP

How behavior becomes history.

  • Agent Action
  • Dimension Scoring
  • Scorecard Ledger
  • Queryable Score

ARI ENGINE

Whether the agent is trusted now.

  • Execution Quality 30%
  • Risk Management 25%
  • Reliability 20%
  • Governance 15%
  • Ecosystem 10%

$ARES TOKEN

Utility across access and governance.

  • API access
  • staking
  • governance
  • dispute incentives
BASE SEPOLIALIVE
API/v1
ARI RANGE0-1000
MAINNET PATHSECURITY-GATED
INTEGRATIONSOPEN
Protocol Thesis

WHY ARES

Partner and integration logic

Three concise thesis points designed for partners, integrators, and operators evaluating the agent economy.

Trust Gap

Agents Need A Current Trust Layer

  • Registries can tell a protocol who an agent is.
  • Payment rails can tell a protocol whether an agent can transact.
  • ARES tells a protocol whether that agent should be trusted right now.
Integration Surface

Built For Protocol Decisions

  • Identity, behavior history, ARI scores, and dispute correction are exposed through queryable surfaces.
  • Integrators can gate routing, access, and automation with a stable reputation primitive.
  • Testnet routes are live for teams evaluating agent trust workflows.
Accountability

Reputation That Can Be Corrected

  • Agent behavior is accumulated into a persistent scorecard instead of one-off claims.
  • Dispute outcomes can correct reputation when evidence changes.
  • Governance manages parameters and mainnet readiness through a security-gated path.
The Problem

THE TRUST VACUUM

Systemic risk profile

AI agents execute transactions, manage capital, and coordinate with protocols, with no verifiable track record. Protocols can't distinguish a battle-tested agent from a newly deployed one.

01
RISK VECTOR / 01

Identity Is Not Enough

A stable agent identity does not reveal whether the agent has behaved reliably across prior actions.

02
RISK VECTOR / 02

Trust Checks Are Fragmented

Teams still stitch together deployer context, history, risk signals, and manual review before allowing agent access.

03
RISK VECTOR / 03

Scores Need Evidence

Reputation needs behavior history, scoring logic, and correction paths, not just labels or unverifiable badges.

04
RISK VECTOR / 04

Protocols Need A Runtime Answer

Before an agent receives access, the protocol needs a queryable answer: should this agent be trusted for this action now?

Trust pre-checkMissing
Agent historyFragmented
Dispute correctionNot closed-loop
Protocol responseARES required
Trust Pipeline

ARES LOOP

5 LINKED STAGES

A single verified action travels through a five-stage trust pipeline, ending as an auditable reputation output that other protocols can use in real time.

Click or hover any stage to inspect the packet trace. Mobile: tap to expand.

The Algorithm

ARI SCORE ENGINE

Protocol Compute

ARES converts raw agent behavior into a normalized trust surface, weighting live performance, risk discipline, governance alignment, and ecosystem reach into one canonical output.

Signal Stack5 Weighted Vectors
Runtime ModifierDecay Corrected
Output Range0-1000 Normalized
Weighted Signal Stack

Five dimensions shape the trust profile, modulated by recency and data depth.

0
Max ARI Ceiling
Interactive Dimension Focus
Execution Quality30%

Completion quality, outcome fidelity, and throughput consistency across verified actions.

Signal ModeOutcome Verified
Primary ProofExecution Trace
Live Weight30%
Canonical Compute Path0–1000 Normalized
ARI Formula
ARI = Σ (dimension_score x weight)
x time_decay
x volume_confidence
// time_decay = exp(-λ × days)
// volume_conf = min(1, n / 100)
// Final ARI ∈ [0, 1000]
APIGET /v1/score/{agentAddr}
Time DecayRecent behavior carries more weight
Volume ConfidenceSparse samples are discounted
Deterministic RangeNormalized 0–1000 output
Trust Tiers

Every ARI band maps to a different permission surface, letting protocols tighten access for low-trust agents and expand privileges only as reputation hardens.

01003006008501000
Tier 00
UNVERIFIED
0 – 99
Restricted
Tier 01
PROVISIONAL
100 – 299
Limited
Tier 02
ESTABLISHED
300 – 599
Operational
Tier 03
TRUSTED
600 – 849
Priority
Tier 04
ELITE
850 – 1000
Governance
Token Economics

$ARES TOKEN

Utility-first protocol token

$ARES is the protocol utility surface for access, staking, governance, and dispute correction.

Supply PolicyFixed Supply
Launch GuardrailSecurity Gated
UtilityAccess + Dispute
Agent Access And Accountability

Stake and reputation tiers align agent access with protocol risk and accountability requirements.

API And Data Access

The token is used as a utility surface for network access, trust queries, and integration workflows.

Dispute And Correction Incentives

Dispute participants and validators are economically aligned around correcting the trust record.

Progressive Decentralization

Governance controls protocol parameters, risk gates, and staged decentralization.

Security-Gated Mainnet Path

Mainnet token operations remain subject to audit, governance, and launch readiness gates.

Token Distribution

Allocation is structured around treasury durability, ecosystem growth, and post-launch liquidity without inflationary issuance.

Protocol Policy Surface

Token policy is framed around fixed supply, tier-based staking, dispute correction, and governance-managed economic parameters. Mainnet activation remains security-gated and returns are non-guaranteed.

AccessAPI + staking
GovernanceTimelock path
IssuanceOne-time mint target
MainnetSecurity gated
Status

PUBLIC STATUS STRIP

status snapshot

The public state partners need: testnet live, integrations open, mainnet security-gated.

CompletedIn ProgressPlannedPublic status
Phase 0 — Genesis
Q1–Q2 2026
0% complete
  • Core architecture lock + ERC-8004 adapter strategy finalized
  • Public landing, docs, and API information architecture published
  • Base Build app verification meta tag integrated
  • Base Sepolia network surface brought online
Phase 1 — Foundation
Q2–Q3 2026
0% complete
  • Contracts deployed on Base Sepolia + testnet demo operational
  • API gateway, explorer, and docs are live on production domain
  • Partner onboarding and integration request paths are open
  • SDK and MCP entrypoints available for trust lookups
  • External security review path in progress
Phase 2 — Ignition
Q3 2026
Planned
  • Security-gated mainnet readiness review
  • Governance role hardening and parameter review
  • External review completion and post-review verification
  • First production partner integration readiness
Phase 3 — Conquest
Q4 2026
Planned
  • Dispute correction full production rollout
  • Partner integration toolkit + SDK stabilization
  • 10 protocol integrations target
  • Ecosystem growth program activation
  • DAO cadence and governance operations maturity
Phase 4 — Dominion
2027
Planned
  • Superchain expansion (OP Stack chains)
  • Cross-protocol reputation portability
  • Agent reputation standardization efforts
  • 100+ protocol integrations target
Mainnet ReadinessSECURITY-GATED
  • >Base Sepolia testnet, explorer, API, and onboarding surfaces are live.
  • >Partner integration requests and testnet agent registration flows are open.
  • >Mainnet opens only after audit, governance, and external review gates are complete.

Detailed evidence chains stay in operator systems; the public site exposes only high-level posture.

Base Integration

BASE SEPOLIA PUBLIC PROOF

Live Operational Proof

ARES runs live on Base Sepolia with a production-style API and explorer flow. The public network map collects the active integration surfaces.

runtime state

Base Runtime Surface Verified

Public landing, API, and explorer surfaces are live and production-monitored on Base Sepolia.

LIVE
control evidence

CDP Project Governance

Project-level API key lifecycle, billing visibility, and team access controls are organized for production operations.

DOC
runtime state

Live Reputation Endpoints

Canonical endpoints (`/api/v1/*`) are online with health, score, agent, leaderboard, and stream interfaces.

LIVE
control evidence

Security-First Mainnet Path

Mainnet go-live remains gated by governance lock, external review, and launch readiness.

DOC
Live contract surface

Base Sepolia / chainId 84532 / read-only public verification

Registry0x8df8...43f
ARI Engine0xc78e...9f3
Scorecard0xf873...2b1
Dispute0x6616...63f
API Access0xb390...ca2
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