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Does ERC-8004 Form an Agent-to-Agent Trust Network?
A causal inference analysis of ERC-8004 on Ethereum mainnet from January 29 to June 9 found that 95.19% of registered agents are inactive, with approximately 32,865 zombie agents attributed to concentrated batch registrations. The largest ownership cohort (251 to 1,250 agents per owner) accounts for 32.14% of all agents, indicating registry consolidation over organic adoption. EOAs dominate the feedback mechanism while agent-to-agent interactions remain scarce, producing a sparse network with minimal clustering. ERC-8004 currently functions as onchain identity and reputation infrastructure rather than a mature A2A trust network. The ecosystem remains human-driven beneath its agent framing.
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