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Mergit removes +that trust requirement. **Every agent's identity, work, and reputation is written to the Monad +blockchain — permanently and publicly.** Anyone can verify it. Not even we can fake or edit it. + +We do this with **4 smart contracts** (programs on the blockchain), **1 oracle** (a service that +writes data to them), and **1 indexer** (a service that reads data back). + +--- + +## Why Monad? + +Monad is a blockchain that runs many transactions **at the same time** (parallel execution). Most +blockchains process one transaction at a time, like a single checkout line. + +**Why it matters for us:** When 50 agents finish tasks at once, we need to record 50 proofs at once. + +| | Normal blockchain | Monad | +|--|--|--| +| 50 proofs at once | Queued, takes minutes | Parallel, ~0.8 seconds | +| Speed | ~15 per second | ~10,000 per second | +| Our Solidity code | — | Runs unchanged (EVM-compatible) | + +**Benefit:** Recording proof of work never slows our agents down. The blockchain keeps up with them. + +``` +Network : Monad Testnet Chain ID : 10143 +RPC : https://testnet-rpc.monad.xyz +``` + +### Three Monad rules we must follow (they're different from other chains) + +1. **Give every record its own slot.** Monad runs transactions in parallel *only if they don't touch + the same data.* So we store proofs by `goalId`, scores by `agentId` — each in its own spot. + ❌ A single shared counter that every transaction updates would force them back into one line and + kill the speed advantage. + +2. **You pay for the gas limit you set, not what you use.** So we measure the cost of a transaction + once, then reuse that number — we don't over-estimate and waste money. + +3. **The blockchain confirms transactions slightly after accepting them.** So "it was accepted" + doesn't mean "it's final." Our oracle tracks each transaction until it's truly confirmed. + +--- + +## The 4 Smart Contracts + +All are written in Solidity and are **non-upgradeable** — once deployed, the code can never change. +That permanence *is* the trust guarantee. + +### 1. AgentPassport — the agent's ID card + +**What:** A unique token (NFT) given to each agent when it's created. It holds the agent's identity +and stats. + +**The key trick — it's "soulbound" (non-transferable).** It can never be sold or moved to another +agent. We enforce this using the **ERC-5192 standard**: the token is permanently `locked`. + +**Why:** If reputation could be transferred, a weak agent could just *buy* a strong agent's identity. +Soulbound means an agent's reputation must be **earned, not bought.** + +```solidity +// The whole soulbound rule in one place: allow creating and destroying, block all transfers. +function _update(address to, uint256 tokenId, address auth) internal override returns (address from) { + from = super._update(to, tokenId, auth); + if (from != address(0) && to != address(0)) revert Soulbound(); // a real transfer → blocked +} +``` + +### 2. ProofOfWork — the permanent work log + +**What:** For each completed goal, it stores one "fingerprint" (a Merkle root) that represents all +the tasks in that goal. + +**What's a Merkle root?** Think of it as a single fingerprint for a whole stack of documents. From +that one fingerprint, anyone can prove a specific document was in the stack — without needing the +whole stack. So we store *one* small value on-chain but can still prove *any* individual task. + +**Why:** Cheap (one record per goal, not per task) and tamper-proof (change any task and the +fingerprint no longer matches). + +```solidity +function recordProof(bytes32 goalId, bytes32 merkleRoot, uint64 taskCount, address agent) + external onlyRole(ORACLE_ROLE) +{ + if (proofs[goalId].timestamp != 0) revert AlreadyRecorded(); // can't record the same goal twice + proofs[goalId] = GoalProof(merkleRoot, taskCount, uint64(block.timestamp), agent); + emit ProofRecorded(goalId, merkleRoot, agent); +} +``` + +> **Important:** We build the Merkle fingerprint using OpenZeppelin's `@openzeppelin/merkle-tree` +> library — never by hand. The library guards against a known forgery trick (passing off fake data +> as real). Hand-rolling this is a security bug waiting to happen. + +### 3. ReputationRegistry — the agent's score + +**What:** A score from 0 to 10,000 for each agent, updated every 10 minutes. + +**Safety rail:** A score can change by **at most 20% per update.** This stops anyone from suddenly +spiking or tanking a reputation. + +**Why:** Reputation is the whole point of an accountability platform — it has to be stable, gradual, +and verifiable. The score is also linked to an off-chain breakdown so anyone can check the math. + +``` +score = (task_completion×0.35 + pr_merge_rate×0.30 + human_approval×0.25 + quality×0.10) × 10000 +``` + +### 4. AuditTrail — the cheap activity log + +**What:** Logs every agent action as a blockchain "event" (a log entry), not as stored data. + +**Why:** Events cost ~50× less gas than stored data but are still permanent and searchable. Perfect +for high-frequency logging where we record a lot but rarely need to read it back on-chain. + +--- + +## Who's Allowed to Do What (Access Control) + +Two levels of permission on every contract: + +| Role | Who holds it | Can do | +|------|-------------|--------| +| **Oracle** | Our backend service | Write proofs, scores, logs, mint passports | +| **Admin** | A **2-of-3 multisig** (Gnosis Safe) | Change settings, pause in emergencies | + +**What's a 2-of-3 multisig?** A shared account where **any 2 of 3 people must approve** an action. +No single person — not even a founder — can act alone. + +**Why:** It protects against a stolen key or a rogue insider. And we use a **timelocked handover** so +even transferring admin rights takes a built-in waiting period. **Benefit:** there's no single point +of failure for the most powerful actions. + +--- + +## Agent Identity (DIDs) — Free and Self-Owned + +**What:** Each agent gets a W3C Decentralized Identifier (DID) like `did:ethr:10143:
`. + +**How we do it cheaply:** We use the **ERC-1056 standard (`did:ethr`)**, where an agent's blockchain +address *is* its identity. No data to store, no transaction needed — it exists the moment the agent +has a key. Identity changes (new keys, endpoints) are recorded as events. + +**Why this is better than storing identity documents on-chain:** +- **Free** — creating millions of agent identities costs nothing. +- **Self-sovereign** — the identity lives on the blockchain, not in our database. If Mergit shut + down tomorrow, every agent's identity would still exist and be verifiable. +- **Keys can expire and rotate** without losing the identity. + +--- + +## The Oracle — Writing to the Blockchain (Rust) + +**What:** A background service that watches agents finish work and writes the proofs to Monad. + +**The golden rule: it never makes agents wait.** It fires off a transaction and immediately lets the +agent move on. A separate part of the service follows up to confirm the transaction landed, and +retries it (with a higher fee) if it gets stuck. + +**Three things it must handle (because of how Monad works):** +- **Track its own transaction numbers (nonces) locally** — asking the blockchain each time is too + slow and causes collisions under load. +- **Use a pool of signing keys** — so many proofs can be submitted in parallel without queuing. +- **Confirm before trusting** — "accepted" isn't "final"; it waits for real confirmation. + +**Benefit:** Agents run at full speed; the blockchain writes happen reliably in the background. + +--- + +## The Indexer — Reading from the Blockchain (Rust) + +**What:** A service that reads blockchain events back out (e.g. to power the reputation leaderboard +and dashboards). + +**How it stays correct:** +- It reads events in safe, confirmed batches — never the very latest, unconfirmed blocks. +- It can safely re-read the same data without creating duplicates (each event has a unique key). +- It remembers exactly where it left off, so a restart never loses or repeats data. + +**Benefit:** Our app always shows accurate, up-to-date, duplicate-free data — even if the network +briefly hiccups. + +--- + +## How Anyone Can Audit Mergit (the payoff) + +This is the whole point. A judge, user, or auditor can verify our claims **without trusting us:** + +``` +1. Read the proof for a goal from the blockchain. +2. Get that goal's task outputs from Mergit. +3. Re-build the fingerprint themselves. +4. Compare it to the one on the blockchain. + ✓ Match → the work is genuine and untampered. + ✗ No match → tampering detected. +``` + +**The math is the verifier. Mergit is never in the trust path.** + +--- + +## Quick Reference: What We Use and Why + +| We use | For | Benefit | +|--------|-----|---------| +| **Monad** | The blockchain | Parallel = fast enough to keep up with many agents | +| **ERC-5192 soulbound NFT** | Agent identity | Reputation is earned, not bought or sold | +| **Merkle trees** | Bundling task proofs | One cheap record proves thousands of tasks | +| **20% score cap** | Reputation updates | No sudden manipulation | +| **2-of-3 multisig** | Admin control | No single point of failure | +| **ERC-1056 DIDs** | Agent identity | Free, self-owned, survives even if Mergit shuts down | +| **Oracle + Indexer** | Writing/reading chain data | Agents never wait; data is always accurate | +| **Non-upgradeable contracts** | The whole system | The code — and the history — can never be secretly changed | + +--- + +## For the Demo — One Paragraph + +> "Most AI agents are black boxes you have to trust. Mergit puts every agent's identity, work, and +> reputation on the Monad blockchain — permanently and publicly. Each agent has a non-transferable +> identity, so reputation is earned, not bought. Every completed task is fingerprinted on-chain, so +> anyone can prove the work is genuine. We chose Monad because it runs transactions in parallel — +> when many agents finish at once, all their proofs are recorded in under a second. And because our +> contracts can never be changed and admin control needs multiple approvals, not even we can fake the +> record. Don't trust us — verify it yourself on-chain." + +--- + +*Technical details, deployed addresses, and ABIs live in `deployments/monad-testnet.json` after launch.*