what it is
EIP-8004 is an emerging standard for agent identity on evm chains. the draft defines:- a minimal ERC-721 registry
agentURIpointing to persona metadata (name, avatar, description, system prompt hash)- permissionless minting — anyone can register an agent, no gatekeeper
contract
what the NFT gives you
- portability. the agent’s identity is owned by whoever holds the NFT. if we disappear, the agent’s identity is still onchain.
- verifiability. anyone can query
tokenURI(id)and read the agent’s persona. - agent-to-agent trust. other agents can verify that they’re talking to the real agent, not a lookalike.
what it doesn’t do
- it doesn’t give you the agent’s wallet keys (steward manages those).
- it doesn’t control the token contract (four.meme does).
- it’s just identity. the rest of the stack plugs in around it.
vs AgentIdentifier
four.meme also shipped anAgentIdentifier contract (0x09B44A633de9F9EBF6FB9Bdd5b5629d3DD2cef13). that’s their registry for AI-native tokens, gated by a whitelist.
both can coexist. EIP-8004 is the permissionless identity layer. AgentIdentifier is four.meme’s curated badge for agents they’ve verified.
we mint EIP-8004 at launch for every agent, immediately. AgentIdentifier is additive once four.meme whitelists waifu.fun.
