ERC-8004

In plainer words

ERC-8004 is a draft standard proposed in the Ethereum community (ERC means "Ethereum Request for Comments") aimed at AI agents. It tackles one problem: when thousands of agents deal with — and pay — each other, how does one agent know who another is and whether it's trustworthy? Its approach puts three things on-chain as public registries: identity (who the agent is, which entity it belongs to), reputation (its track record, any complaints), and validation (whether its claimed capabilities have been verified). Because it's on-chain, anyone can check and no one can quietly edit the record. Why it matters to us: it's the same broad direction as KYA (giving an agent an ID) — both answer "can this agent be trusted?" ERC-8004 leans "decentralized on-chain registry," we lean "enforced compliance check before settlement"; the two can complement. It's still evolving, not final, but worth watching.