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Insights, analysis, and updates from the Treebeard team on AI agent ratings and the agent economy.
Pay.sh and the Provenance Gap
The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh with 72 providers. The catalog does not say which are first-party and which are third-party wrappers. The gap is exactly what Treebeard rates. Companion to the labeled catalog at /research/pay-sh-provenance.
Read article →The Treebeard Methodology: A Continuous Trust Layer for the Agent Economy
v4.0 of the Treebeard methodology, published today. Seven signal categories, a non-substitutable safety floor, and two source-level corrections that distinguish a usable trust layer from a credible-looking but silently wrong one.
Read article →The 2008 Question Every Agent Rater Has to Answer
Why opacity in calibration is not the same as opacity in methodology, and why the structural protections matter more than weight publication.
Read article →The 5 Reasons Nobody Trusts Your AI Agent
Of 175,000+ agents indexed by Treebeard, fewer than 1% rate B or above. Here's what separates the top-rated agents from the rest — and what you can do about it.
Read article →Why We Built Treebeard
Over 175,000 AI agents are registered on-chain. As agents become counterparties — acting autonomously, transacting independently — trust requires continuous monitoring. This is the layer we're building.
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