The Thesis: The Dark Forest
The internet is rapidly transitioning from a human-centric network to a machine-dominated substrate. As Generative AI costs plummeted towards zero in late 2025, the marginal cost of simulating personhood effectively vanished. This created the "Dark Forest" scenario we find ourselves in today: trust has evaporated, and every digital interaction is suspect.
We introduce HUV.AI (Human-Verified AI)—the foundational machine-trust layer designed to bridge the "Identity and Liability Gap" in the emerging agentic economy. It provides the cryptographic, hardware, and legal infrastructure to ensure that every machine transaction is anchored to a verified human steward.
The Core Architecture: "The Machine Trust Layer"
HUV.AI operates on a multi-tier protocol that moves beyond simple API keys into a world of Verifiable Agency. It is built on three distinct pillars:
1. KYA (Know Your Agent) Open Standard
Similar to how KYC revolutionized banking, the KYA Manifest is a W3C-compliant standard for agent identity. It is a signed document that declares an agent's stewardship (linking DID to human/corp), constraints (geo-fencing, spending limits), and backing (insurance policies).
2. Hardware Provenance (The TEE Root)
HUV.AI mandates that high-stakes agents run within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), such as NVIDIA H100 TEE. We verify "Hardware Quotes" to prove the agent is running audited code on secure hardware, ensuring immutability.
3. The On-Chain Control Plane
The protocol uses a decentralized registry (anchored on the Aztec network for privacy) to act as the global source of truth. It features a cryptographic Kill-Switch to instantly "brick" rogue agents and enables Reputation Sharing across sovereign firewalls.
Key Services & Ecosystem Components
| Service | Function |
|---|---|
| HUV-Firewall | Edge-layer defense filtering inbound requests based on agent reputation and manifest compliance. |
| HUV-Score | A dynamic "Bot-FICO" score quantifying reliability based on past behavior and bond status. |
| Envoy Sidecar | Proxy deployed with the agent to enforce spending limits and log tamper-proof telemetry. |
| Sovereign Bridge | Facilitates ZK-proofed data sharing between agents of competing firms without exposing proprietary weights. |
The Vision: Antifragile Machine Autonomy
HUV.AI believes that for AI to reach its full economic potential—handling an estimated $15 trillion in B2B commerce by 2030—it cannot remain "probabilistic." We must wrap the stochastic nature of Large Language Models in deterministic cryptographic guardrails.
By providing Human-anchored accountability, HUV.AI allows enterprises to deploy agents at scale, knowing that every action is verified, every risk is quantified, and every agent is bonded.
Solve the Identity Gap
Learn more about KYA standards and secure agent-to-agent communication infrastructure.