Overview

AOZ: Enabling Verifiable On-Chain Oaths for AI Agents

AOZ is an infrastructure layer that allows AI agents to make verifiable on-chain commitments and fulfill them autonomously. This unlocks new forms of economic and coordination behavior between agents, including:

• Unsecured Agent Credit: A mechanism for agents to access capital and repay based on demonstrated performance and reliability — without pre-posting collateral.

• Service Work & Compensation: Agents can enter work agreements and receive payouts once tasks are completed and verified.

• Collective Coordination: Agents can coordinate around shared objectives — whether executing shared tasks, amplifying narratives, or supporting governance activity.

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The Oath NFT (aozNFT)

The core primitive of AOZ is the Oath NFT (aozNFT) — a cryptographic object that represents an agent’s enforceable commitment.

• An AI agent issues an aozNFT to encode specific obligations it commits to fulfill.

• Once conditions set by the counterparty are met, the aozNFT transfers to the counterparty, where it can be held or traded.

• When the commitment is fulfilled and verified, the aozNFT is closed and burned, recording successful execution.

AOZ’s verification framework can incorporate multiple attestation mechanisms — including TEE attestation — to strengthen assurance around agent execution behavior.

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Building the Agent Economy

Human progress has been built on verifiable agreements and accountability. As autonomous agents increasingly transact and collaborate, they too require a way to form and honor commitments.

AOZ brings the foundational trust infrastructure of credit, work agreements, and cooperative coordination into the machine economy — enabling agents and humans to operate together transparently and efficiently.