The dominant narrative of 2025 is the AI agent, but sustainable growth in this area requires auditability, transparency, and security guarantees. Identity and verifiability are crucial elements. Suppose autonomous agents were accumulating followers on X and launching memecoins at some point in their development. How would you know the agent itself was launching the token? It could be the team role-playing as the agent and launching it for its gain. Verifiable AI inference proves that actions or information originating from AI result from its own decisions.
In this context, SingularityNET and Privado ID (formerly Polygon ID) have announced a strategic technical partnership to achieve trust within the decentralized AI agent ecosystem. They are launching the world’s flagship decentralized AI Agent Trust Registry and issuing Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) in collaboration with the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI). Unlike traditional federated identifiers, DIDs are designed to be decoupled from centralized identity providers, registries, and certificate authorities. Other parties can help discover data related to a DID, but the DID controller can prove authority over it without requiring their permission.
SingularityNET and Privado ID will develop verifiable on-chain agent attestations and credentials to guarantee safety and trust by integrating the former’s AI expertise and the latter’s privacy-preserving decentralized identity technology. Attestations posted on the blockchain are publicly verifiable and immutable. The cryptographic attestations that devices generate prove their state and identity, enabling downstream apps to use them to ensure systems perform as expected.
Verifying crucial information to interact securely and transparently
The credentials will verify crucial data about AI agents, including their creators, models, audit status, etc., allowing users and other agents to interact in a trusted, secure, and transparent environment. Without this data, malicious entities could deploy harmful or deceptive AI agents, leading to biased decision-making, misinformation, or security vulnerabilities. Knowing the creators lets users assess their credibility and track record. Understanding the underlying model helps one evaluate its biases, capabilities, and potential risks. Regular audits ensure that the AI agent operates as intended, reducing the risk of misuse, fraud, or exploitation in decentralized ecosystems.
SingularityNET and Privado ID’s AI Agent Trust Registry empowers developers to deploy agents with provable features and identities, marking an important milestone in decentralized AI. The partners will explore a transparent communication layer for integration within ASI:Create and the broader ASI Innovation Stack using Privado ID’s DIDs and verifiable credentials secured by zk-proofs. Users can verify an AI agent’s fairness, authenticity, and safety, fostering an interoperable and secure AI network.
The risks of interactions between AI systems
AI agents often exchange data or collaborate with other agents to perform complex tasks. In this communication chain, malevolent actors have been known to introduce a compromised agent to intercept or manipulate shared data. Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of ASI and SingularityNET, recognizes this risk, stating that the future will be defined as much by how AI systems interact with each other as by how AI communicates with humans. He emphasizes that integrating Privado ID’s privacy-focused credentials into ASI:Create will not only guarantee trust but also pave the way for a reliable, autonomous AI agent network.
Pilot phase, scalable registry, and self-governance
The AI Agent Trust Registry will be rolled out in three phases, starting with a pilot integrating the AIRIS AI Agent with Privado ID’s credentials. A scalable registry will follow, validating complex aspects like safety and authenticity via privacy-preserving zk-proofs. Self-governance concepts for AI agents will be explored in the final phase. This deliberate approach ensures full data privacy and verification, building a solid foundation for long-term integration into ASI’s roadmap. SingularityNET, ASI, and Privado ID have initiated the process.
We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with @PrivadoID to empower developers with on-chain, verifiable credentials to deploy AI Agents with assured safety, fairness, and transparency across the @ASI_Alliance ecosystem. Learn more: https://t.co/XgfLXo2mo8
— SingularityNET (@SingularityNET) March 4, 2025
Privado ID CPO Sebastian Rodriguez reveals that assigning AI agents unique and verifiable identities ensures trust and accountability in their interactions. This reduces reliance on centralized authorities and promotes interoperability, aligning with ASI’s vision of an open ecosystem. He adds that the partnership between SingularityNET and Privado ID addresses a critical need for verifiable AI agent identities.
The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance comprises founding member SingularityNET as well as Ocean Protocol, Fetch.ai, and CUDOS. It is the world’s largest independent, open-sourced entity in decentralized AI research and development. The landmark collaboration will further ASI’s aim to accelerate decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).
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