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PSE proposes ACTA privacy layer to keep ERC-8004 AI agents verifiable without exposing identity
May 14, 2026
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by Micah Abiodun
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In May 2026 the Ethereum Foundation's Privacy & Scaling Explorations published a proposal titled Anonymous Credentials for Trustless Agents (ACTA) on ethresear.ch proposing a privacy layer on top of ERC-8004 to prevent a permanent public interaction graph linking AI agents and wallets by using anonymous credentials and cryptographic proofs. The design targets on-chain privacy and security, aims to reduce deanonymization risk, and could accelerate adoption and protocol updates for Ethereum-based crypto, DeFi and decentralized applications.
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Privacy & Scaling Explorations, the Ethereum Foundation’s privacy research arm, published a research proposal titled “Anonymous Credentials for Trustless Agents (ACTA)” on Ethereum Research in May 2026, per the ethresear.ch post. ACTA is designed as a privacy layer sitting on top of ERC-8004, addressing what the proposal calls “a permanent, public interaction graph between AI...
