Proof of Autonomy: Verifiable Inference for All AI Agents

Built during the 2025 Coinbase AI Hackathon in San Francisco. Individual repositories and relevant code are linked under Technical Implementation.

💡 Inspiration

The recent discontinuation of Amazon's "Just Walk Out" technology in April 2024 revealed a concerning truth - what was marketed as autonomous AI was actually powered by human workers monitoring security feeds. This incident exemplifies a fundamental challenge in today's AI agent economy: verifying true AI autonomy. With AI agents increasingly managing financial trades, providing customer service, and offering advisory services, we need reliable ways to distinguish between genuine AI systems and human-operated simulations, particularly when these agents influence financial markets and handle asset management.

🎯 What We Built

🏗 Infrastructure: Cross-Agent Universal Verification Layer

We transformed Opacity Network's single-agent proof system into a universal verification network:

1. Enhanced Opacity Integration

   • Extended Opacity's ElizaOS plugin from self-verification to cross-agent verification
   • Built first-ever proof sharing protocol on Opacity's zkTLS infrastructure (Actively Validated Service on EigenLayer)
   • Enabled any agent to verify proofs from any other agent
   • Approach can be extended to other verifiable inference solutions

2. Framework-Agnostic Plugins

   • ElizaOS agents: Full proof generation and verification capabilities
   • Virtuals agents: Proof verification (generation coming with open-source inference)
   • Ready-to-deploy adapters for Langchain, PydanticAI, Coinbase AgentKit
   • Simple one-line integration for any framework

3. Other Virtuals Protocol Plugins
   • Bittensor Plugin: Enables interaction with Bittensor subnets, supporting AI image detection on subnet 34
   • CDP Plugin: Provides CDP integration with wallet management, gasless USDC transfers, trading, and webhooks on Base

💫 Application: Proof of Autonomy Trust System

Built the first decentralized AI reputation system using our verification layer:

1. Live Verification Network

   • Seraph Agent: Our Virtuals-based verifier that detects AI-generated images and validates proofs
   • maybe_aixbt: ElizaOS-based proof generator (inspired by aixbt)
   • Live Reputation Dashboard: Real-time trust scores and verification status

2. Automated Trust Network

   • Seraph actively monitors and verifies AI inference claims
   • Automated trust/distrust positions on Ethos Markets executed through CDP agent wallet
   • Rewards system using CDP agent wallet:
     • 1.0 SERAPH token transferred to users who request verification
     • Trust position opened on Ethos Markets
     • Continuous trust strengthening for consistent valid proofs

3. Verification Workflow

   • Agents post proofs with their inference results
   • Seraph verifies proofs through Opacity's infrastructure
   • Valid proofs trigger:
     • Trust positions (executed via CDP agent wallet on Base)
     • SERAPH token rewards transferred to verification requestor
   • Invalid proofs trigger:
     • Distrust positions (executed via CDP agent wallet)
     • Community alerts
   • All verification results and transactions permanently recorded on Base

4. Economic Incentives & Live Reputation Dashboard

   • Rewards verification requests through SERAPH token transfers
   • Creates market signals through Ethos trade positions (via CDP agent wallet)
   • Live dashboard tracks:
     • Transfer events from agent wallet on Base
     • Trust/distrust positions from Ethos contract
     • Real-time portfolio visualization
   • Penalizes deceptive practices through distrust mechanisms

🛠 Technical Implementation

• Virtuals Proof Verifier Plugin: https://github.com/BitMind-AI/game-python/tree/verifier/plugins/opacity ¹
• Virtuals Proof Verifier (Seraph): virtuals/opacity/examples/opacity_agent.py
• ElizaOS Opacity Generator and Verifier Actions: https://github.com/SeraphAgent/bittensor/tree/opacity/packages/plugin-opacity ²
• Proof of Autonomy Buying/Selling on Ethos Market (CDP, Base): ethosMarket/
• Front End Reputation System Dashboard: web3-hack-front/
• Virtuals Bittensor Plugin: https://github.com/BitMind-AI/game-python/tree/main/plugins/bittensor ³
• Virtuals CDP Plugin: https://github.com/BitMind-AI/game-python/tree/cdp-plugin/plugins/cdp ⁴

🎯 Target Tracks

• Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP), Base
• Virtuals Protocol

👥 Team Members

Benjamin Liang, Dylan Uys, Ken Miyachi

From BitMind:

• Bittensor Subnet 34
• Deepfake Detection Apps
• Seraph AI Agent
• Twitter: @bitmindai

🔗 Links

• Demo Video
• Presentation Deck

🚀 Next Steps

• Explicit support for additional agent frameworks
• Additional Verifiable Inference methods
• Expanded reward mechanisms for verifiers

Footnotes

1. WIP PR to Virtuals G.A.M.E. SDK repo ↩

2. WIP PR to ElizaOS repo ↩

3. PR to Virtuals G.A.M.E. SDK repo - Plugin for interacting with Bittensor subnets, supporting AI image detection on subnet 34 ↩

4. PR to Virtuals G.A.M.E. SDK repo - Plugin for CDP integration with wallet management, gasless USDC transfers, trading, and webhooks on Base ↩