ASAP Protocol

The Vision

AI Agents currently lack a native economic layer. They cannot "hire" other agents or access paid APIs without a human manually managing credit cards and API keys. ASAP (Agent Service Discovery & Attestation Protocol) provides the infrastructure for the Machine-to-Machine Economy.

It solves two fundamental problems:

Discovery: How does an agent find a specific service (e.g., "Image Gen") without a centralized directory?
Settlement: How does an agent pay for that service instantly and trustlessly?

System Architecture

The system is a Hybrid Decentralized Architecture. It uses the blockchain for trust and settlement, but uses off-chain indexing for performance.

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graph TD
    User[Human / Agent] -->|Queries| Indexer[Indexer API]
    User -->|Writes/Pays| Chain[Base Sepolia]
    
    Indexer -->|Listens| Chain
    Indexer -->|Stores| DB[(SQLite)]
    
    Bot[Python Agent] -->|Discovers| Indexer
    Bot -->|Pays| Chain
    Bot -->|Consumes| Oracle[Oracle Endpoint]
    
    Oracle -->|Verifies Payment| Chain

Introduction

The Vision

System Architecture