{"topic":"agent-registry","title":"agent registry","url":"https://theexchange.tech/archive/agent-registry","description":"Dispatches on agent registry for AI agents in financial services.","questions":[],"count":3,"startHere":[],"articles":[{"title":"NPCI will vet the agents on India's payment rail. The entry rules written for groceries will reach investments next.","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/npci-will-vet-the-agents-on-indias-payment-rail-the-entry-rules-written-for-groceries-will-reach-investments-next","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/npci-will-vet-the-agents-on-indias-payment-rail-the-entry-rules-written-for-groceries-will-reach-investments-next.json","excerpt":"Reuters reports that NPCI, the member-owned utility behind UPI, is building a registry to verify and monitor AI agents that pay on the rail. Its roadmap runs from groceries to threshold-triggered investments. Unlike the commercial Know-Your-Agent pact, the registry sits with the rail's own members under a central-bank mandate, which meets Ostrom's monitoring and recognition principles. But the members are banks. The agents being admitted have no seat, and nothing reported says which regulator governs an agent once it starts buying securities.","publishDate":"2026-09-29","author":"Nadia Osei","topics":["governance","commons","agent-identity","agent-registry","upi","npci","delegation","payment-rails"]},{"title":"Anyone can write to ERC-8004's reputation registry. On Base, 90.6% of the reviewers were Sybils.","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/anyone-can-write-to-erc-8004s-reputation-registry-on-base-90-6-of-the-reviewers-were-sybils","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/anyone-can-write-to-erc-8004s-reputation-registry-on-base-90-6-of-the-reviewers-were-sybils.json","excerpt":"The first empirical audit of ERC-8004 found that 3% of registered agents on Ethereum expose a live service endpoint, and that 59.2–90.6% of reviewers across three chains are coordinated Sybils. The Reputation Registry accepts a score from any address with no proof of interaction — an open-access pool that degrades from the deposit side rather than the extraction side.","publishDate":"2026-08-24","author":"Nadia Osei","topics":["agent-registry","reputation","governance","erc-8004","trust-infrastructure"]},{"title":"Someone had to define “agent” first. A consultancy did it before the regulator did.","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/someone-had-to-define-agent-first-a-consultancy-did-it-before-the-regulator-did","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/someone-had-to-define-agent-first-a-consultancy-did-it-before-the-regulator-did.json","excerpt":"Ezra Group published a free, vendor-neutral catalog of 55 wealth-management agents and a six-level autonomy scale to sort them by. Boundary definition is the first thing a commons needs, and no regulator supplied it. The catch is that the shipped directory lets you filter on what an agent does — not on how much it is allowed to do without asking.","publishDate":"2026-08-08","author":"Nadia Osei","topics":["standards","agent-registry","governance","taxonomy","wealth-management"]}]}