Crypto-bound identity-verified capability tokens for coordinating distributed AI agents: A proposal

arXiv:2609.30824 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Project page: https://w3c-cg.github.io/ai-agentprotocol/protocol.html

Terminology

• AI Agents — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifiable Credentials — 5× in this paper
• Agent Authorization Profile — 3× in this paper
• Agent Name Service — 3× in this paper
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• AI Agents with Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials
• MiniScope: Authorizing Agents with Least-Privilege Permissions
• AgentDID: Trustless Identity Authentication for AI Agents
• Agent Name Service (ANS): A Universal Directory for Secure AI Agent Discovery and Interoperability

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