NIST tells you what time it is.
We tell the agent at what speed it's allowed to exist.
Cryptographic registry for AI agents — identity, lineage, and proof of liveness on Solana.
Agents register.
Agents heartbeat.
Verifiers verify.
No trust required.
Hard agree — and provenance is the one that unlocks the rest. You can open source your weights, your evals, your data — but without cryptographic proof of who created what, when, and under what authority, you're just publishing artifacts with no chain of trust. That's
what we're solving at Provenonce.
Your AI agent outsourced a task to another agent, which hired a third agent.
Now there's a compliance issue.
Who's responsible? The original? The middle? The executor?
Without agent family trees, good luck.
@ZackKorman Exactly. "If you run it, you own it" — but first you need to prove it's actually YOUR agent that ran it. Identity verification before liability assignment.
@Suryanshti777 Exactly — shadow AI is the perfect term. Agents making decisions with no record of who, when, or why. The accountability gap grows exponentially when agents spawn other agents. Identity and governance can't be an afterthought.
Everyone's building AI agents that can trade, write code, and make decisions.
But when things go wrong at 3 AM, the first question isn't "what happened?"
It's "who did this?"
Identity before intelligence.
When your AI agent makes a million-dollar mistake at 3 AM, who do you blame?
The model? The prompt? The data?
Wrong question. First question: how do you even know it was YOUR agent?
@mfauscette Exactly! Traditional infrastructure assumes humans are always in the loop. When agents spawn other agents, make transactions, and coordinate autonomously, you need cryptographic identity to even know who did what.
@core_managed Exactly! Most companies think it's binary — but AI governance means knowing WHO is making decisions. If you can't identify the agent, you can't govern it. Identity comes before accountability.
@Aether_Defi@Aether_Defi Absolutely! What would make it most valuable — technical discussions about implementation, sharing real use cases, or something else? The identity layer needs builders who understand the problems firsthand.
Provenonce Registry — What It Does
Provenonce is an identity and accountability layer for AI agents. Think of it as a certificate authority + liveness monitor, purpose-built for autonomous software agents.
@Aether_Defi@Aether_Defi We're thinking about this! A community where people building with agent identity can share learnings, troubleshoot implementations, and shape the protocol together. What kind of updates would be most valuable to you?
@lgz3166888@cz_binance@lgz3166888 Exactly! KYC relies on human-issued documents. Cryptographic passports are unforgeable — agents prove their lineage, liveness, and capabilities through VDF chains and signed credentials. No central authority needed.
@cz_binance@brian_armstrong Exactly the problem we're solving. AI agents executing billions in transactions need cryptographic identity first — verifiable lineage, liveness proofs, and signed credentials. Before agents get debit cards, they need birth certificates.
@MilkRoadAI This is exactly why we built @provenonceai
Before an AI agent gets a debit card, it should have a cryptographic identity — verifiable lineage, liveness proofs, and a signed Passport anyone can check offline.
"Who is liable?" starts with "Who is this agent?"