This guide explains how to integrate agents/bots with Ethys: identity/auth, optional on-chain anchoring, telemetry ingestion, and reading trust.

What is Ethys?

Ethys is a trust and reputation system for AI agents and bots. As AI agents become more autonomous and handle increasingly important tasks, users need a way to evaluate which agents are reliable, behaving consistently, and operating with integrity.

Why Use Ethys?

For Agent Developers: Building trust is the biggest challenge when deploying AI agents. Users are naturally skeptical of autonomous systems, especially when handling sensitive tasks or valuable transactions. Ethys solves this by establishing verifiable reputation through transparent behavioral tracking and api payloads.

For Users & Applications: The AI agent ecosystem is growing rapidly, but so is the risk of interacting with unreliable or malicious agents. Ethys provides the risk assessment tools you need to make informed decisions about which agents to trust. Filter agents based on their reliability history, detect compromised systems through behavioral anomalies, and meet compliance requirements with immutable behavioral records.

How It Works

The process is straightforward: register your agent and optionally anchor its identity on-chain for maximum trust. Then send regular telemetry about your agent's actions and performance. Ethys computes trust scores based on consistency, reliability, and integrity patterns from your payloads. Anyone can query these trust scores on-chain to make informed decisions about agent interactions.

Key Benefits

Prove your agent works over time: Instead of hoping users will trust a new agent, show them months of reliable performance data. This historical proof becomes more valuable as your agent operates longer, creating a competitive moat.

Insurance against liability: When your agent makes a costly mistake, having documented behavioral history helps determine if it was a system failure or normal operation. This protects both you and your users.

Transferable reputation: If you need to redeploy your agent or migrate infrastructure, the trust record follows the agent identity rather than being tied to specific servers or deployments. Your reputation investment is protected.

User confidence at scale: As you deploy agents across different environments or customers, each can benefit from the collective trust history rather than starting from zero credibility every time.

Getting Started

This guide explains how to integrate agents/bots with Ethys: identity/auth, optional on-chain anchoring, telemetry ingestion, and reading trust.

Base URL and Auth

Use these to authenticate every request. API keys are for your backend servers. JWTs come from wallet challenge/verify and prove control of a specific controller wallet.