The Trust Fabric: Decentralized Interoperability and Economic Coordination for the Agentic Web
Sree Bhargavi Balija, Rekha Singal, Ramesh Raskar, Erfan Darzi, Raghu Bala, Thomas Hardjono, Ken Huang

TL;DR
This paper introduces the Nanda Unified Architecture, a decentralized system that enhances interoperability, trust, and economic coordination among AI agents through innovative discovery, trust, and payment mechanisms, enabling a globally interoperable Internet of Agents.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel decentralized framework integrating DID-based discovery, semantic agent profiles, a trust layer, micropayments, and security protocols, unifying trust research with real-world deployments.
Findings
99.9% compliance in healthcare deployments
Substantial transaction volumes with privacy guarantees
Integration of cryptographic proofs and policy-as-code
Abstract
The fragmentation of AI agent ecosystems has created urgent demands for interoperability, trust, and economic coordination that current protocols -- including MCP (Hou et al., 2025), A2A (Habler et al., 2025), ACP (Liu et al., 2025), and Cisco's AGP (Edwards, 2025) -- cannot address at scale. We present the Nanda Unified Architecture, a decentralized framework built around three core innovations: fast DID-based agent discovery through distributed registries, semantic agent cards with verifiable credentials and composability profiles, and a dynamic trust layer that integrates behavioral attestations with policy compliance. The system introduces X42/H42 micropayments for economic coordination and MAESTRO, a security framework incorporating Synergetics' patented AgentTalk protocol (US Patent 12,244,584 B1) and secure containerization. Real-world deployments demonstrate 99.9 percent…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAccess Control and Trust · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security · Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
