Overview
- Ethereum’s official X account teased on Jan. 27 that ERC-8004 is going live on mainnet soon, with community chatter pointing to a possible Jan. 29 launch.
- ERC-8004 defines three lightweight registries—identity, reputation and validation—with agent identities issued as ERC‑721‑style tokens that carry portable metadata.
- Developers position the spec as coordination infrastructure for discovery and trust rather than a marketplace, leaving payments and pricing to other protocols.
- The framework is designed to run across Ethereum mainnet and Layer‑2 networks, pushing heavy computation off‑chain while recording reusable credibility signals on‑chain.
- Blockonomi reports the standard has launched with early integrations by Cortensor, VIBE and ZyfAI, a claim not corroborated by the other outlets covering the rollout.