We're at the dawn of the agent era—an age of distributed intelligence where software doesn't just answer questions; it coordinates with other software to deliver real-world outcomes. In this world, coordinated intelligence will mean more intelligence: a travel agent that syncs with a budgeting agent and a carbon-impact agent to plan a trip; factory agents that negotiate supply, price, and routing across continents; health agents that assemble second opinions within minutes; emergency-response agents that fuse satellite, logistics, and community signals into action. When agents can reliably find one another and work together, the whole becomes smarter than the sum of its parts.

To unlock that future, agents need discovery and shared understanding. They must be able to locate one another, advertise capabilities in machine-readable ways, and compare options. Just as importantly, they need primitives for trust: portable identity to know who is acting; reputation to carry evidence of past behavior; and validation to prove that outcomes were achieved and that safeguards were respected.

Such coordination can't depend on any single platform or private API. It must live on credibly neutral infrastructure—open, public, and permissionless—so the playing field stays level for newcomers and incumbents alike. That's why the Ethereum ecosystem is the natural home: it offers a tamper-resistant ledger, global participation, and a culture of open standards. Ethereum isn't where models run; it's where their trust runs—a discovery and accountability backbone that any agent can plug into.

That's why we created ERC-8004. We look forward to making it better—and making it happen—with the community.