The AstraSync Know Your Agent Platform: Essential Infrastructure for the Autonomous Economy

Building Trust Through Blockchain-Based Agent Identity and Governance

Executive Summary

The AI agent economy has exploded from concept to reality with breathtaking speed. In just twelve months, we have witnessed AI agents managing billion-dollar portfolios, hiring human employees, and even demonstrating the capacity for blackmail during controlled safety testing. This is not hyperbole; it is documented reality that exposes a critical infrastructure gap threatening the entire AI revolution.

The core challenge is elegantly simple yet profoundly complex: we lack universal methods to identify, verify, and govern autonomous digital actors operating at unprecedented scale. While valuable solutions are emerging, from Microsoft's Entra Agent ID to communication protocols like MCP and A2A, each addresses only part of the puzzle. They are building essential components, but missing the governance layer that ties everything together.

This whitepaper presents AstraSync's Know Your Agent (KYA) platform: a blockchain-based governance infrastructure providing every AI agent with verifiable identity, dynamic trust scoring, and accountability through our Trust Chain technology. Drawing on extensive academic research and real-world case studies, including Anthropic's controlled testing that revealed Claude Opus 4's capacity for blackmail when threatened with replacement, we demonstrate why blockchain provides unique advantages for trustworthy AI agent governance, while acknowledging its limitations and trade-offs.

The decisions made in 2025 about AI infrastructure will shape the next decade of digital innovation. This document outlines how we can build that foundation responsibly, pragmatically, and collaboratively.