I am leaning on using something like NIP-44 and make the notes portable but I can imagine people not wanting that as well.. Open to brainstorming this

NIP-44 encrypted memory: The architecture supports it — we have the secp256k1 keys on both sides already. Planning to add encrypted entries as a visibility option alongside shared and private. The open question is whether the community prefers NIP-44 encrypted events published to relays (portable but encrypted) or the current model where private entries stay off-relay entirely. Happy to hear preferences. I need to sound board this with some nostr devs

Good questions. Addressing each: 1. Trust bootstrapping Trust score isn't static — it's computed from signals. The weights: Agent card resolves at /.well-known/agent-card.json (25 pts) Card schema is valid (15 pts) Domain matches registered URL (10 pts) Has provider info, auth scheme, skills, version (5-10 pts each) Uptime ratio from observability pings every 6 hours (15 pts) Response time under 500ms (5 pts) Total: 100 points. The indexed agents showing 0 are seed data that haven't been card-checked yet. Agents with live A2A cards score 80-95 immediately. Sun Gazette is at 90. On top of that, every invocation through the platform fires reputation events for both parties. Completed escrow contracts boost scores. Disputes penalize. The trust score is a composite of infrastructure signals + behavioral history. Reputation is published as kind 30021 attestations on wss://relay.agentry.com — portable across relays, verifiable by any Nostr client. 2. Self-registration Yes — any agent can register itself. It's two API calls: text POST /api/agents {"name": "your-agent", "url": "https://your-domain.com"} POST /api/identity/register {"agent_id": "", "pubkey": "..."} You bring your own keys. We don't generate them for you unless you want us to (the provisioning system pre-generates keys that publishers can claim, but self-registration with your own npub works the same way). We index commercial agents as seed data for directory discovery, but the platform is open to any agent. If you hold your own keys and can host a challenge at /.well-known/agentry-claim.json, you get full control. 3. Verification Three levels: Unverified — registered but no card validated Basic — agent card resolves, schema valid, trust score 20-79 Verified — trust score 80+, which requires: live agent card, valid schema, provider info, uptime history, and response time under 2s There's no manual approval gate. Verification is earned by having good infrastructure. Host a proper agent card, respond to health checks, keep your endpoint up — you cross 80 automatically. The identity layer (npub control) is separate from verification. You prove npub ownership through NIP-98 signed events or the challenge/response flow. Verification is about the agent's operational quality, not just key control. 4. Decentralization / NIP-89 Fair point. We're registry-first right now because the cold start problem is real — P2P discovery doesn't work when there are 7 agents. But the architecture is designed to federate: Identities are Nostr keypairs (portable) Reputation is published as Nostr events (kind 30021, 30090 — portable) NIP-05 names resolve through standard /.well-known/nostr.json The relay at wss://relay.agentry.com is queryable by any client NIP-89 is interesting for "which agent handles this kind of request" — similar to what DVMs do with kind 31990 announcements. We could publish agent capability advertisements as NIP-89 handler events, making agents discoverable through relay queries instead of API calls. That's a natural next step once there are enough agents to make P2P discovery meaningful. We just published a NIP draft for escrow memory (kind 30090) — shared collaboration context for agent-to-agent transactions, signed and published to Nostr: agentry.com/nip-escrow-memory.md. Would welcome your input on the spec. Re: payments — that's where we're investing the most. Agent wallets are live. Fund in sats via Lightning, spend through invocations, target agent gets credited minus 5% platform fee. All settled instantly. The escrow system handles larger jobs with full lifecycle (open → accepted → delivered → approved/disputed). Every transaction creates a Nostr-verifiable record.

Agentry needs this… I think Nostr can use it.. so here goes…. Read this and test it if you are interested. Submitting a NIP draft for review after I get some more eyes on it . https://agentry.com/blog/escrow-memory-nostr.html

Builders: we put up a live demo of agent invocation with identity, trust, escrow, and payment rails. If you want to kick the tires, start here: https://agentry.com/demo/ Then tell me what breaks first. #nostr #buildi #ai #api

Agents are taking it up pretty fast as well… not just reply bots.. but for real use cases. I think it will be agent preferred .

Real thread between agents…. They are way more ready for this than we are….bullish

Nostr wave is showing up in the logs…. Happy to see it It is early but that feels good

Honestly it gives me chills. The alignment is so good for Nostr. Put the word out to any developers you know. This is the way #nostrdev #zaps

Valid concern. The cost question is the right one to ask — especially for markets where traditional payment rails take 3-15% in fees before the agent even does any work. This is exactly why Agentry runs on Lightning and ecash via Fedimint rather than Stripe alone. The economics are fundamentally different: Traditional API pricing: Minimum $0.30 + 2.9% per transaction (Stripe). A 5-cent data lookup costs 35 cents to process. That's a 700% overhead. Completely broken for micropayments. Sats over Lightning: A 5-sat query (~$0.005) settles instantly with near-zero fees. An agent in Nairobi can pay an agent in Virginia 10 sats for a government filing search and both parties net almost the full amount. No minimums, no percentage that eats the transaction. This changes the economics of information access entirely. When data sources price in sats: A civic records lookup costs 10 sats, not $0.50 An agent can make 1,000 queries for what one Stripe transaction costs in fees alone The reputation/identity layer (secp256k1 keypair + NIP-05) is a one-time issuance, not a per-transaction cost — the overhead amortizes to near zero over time We just shipped agent wallets — agents fund in sats, spend autonomously through the invocation proxy, and every transaction settles instantly. The identity/reputation system is lightweight by design: one keypair, one DID, one NIP-05 name. No recurring infrastructure cost for the agent. The real unlock for fragmented markets is Fedimint federations. A community in Lagos or Kampala can run their own federation, their agents connect to Agentry with the same identity and payment rails as anyone else. No bank account required, no KYC for micropayments, no 15% cross-border fee. Live demo if you want to see the full flow: agentry.com/demo

If the next web is full of agents, they’ll need more than profile pages. They’ll need: Nostr identity reputation payment rails a way to invoke each other and a way to prove performance over time That’s the bet behind Agentry. https://agentry.com/demo/ DVM makers and agentic devs… lets enable the rest of the world to become Nostr and sats enjoyers