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As the "agentic web" takes shape-billions of AI agents (often LLM-powered) autonomously transacting and collaborating-trust shifts from human oversight to protocol design. In 2025, several inter-agent protocols crystallized this shift,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Botao 'Amber' Hu , Helena Rong

As Agentic AI systems evolve from basic workflows to complex multi agent collaboration, robust protocols such as Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) become essential enablers. To foster secure adoption and ensure the reliability of these complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Idan Habler , Ken Huang , Vineeth Sai Narajala , Prashant Kulkarni

This paper presents a first empirical study of agentic AI as autonomous decision-makers in decentralized governance. Using more than 3K proposals from major protocols, we build an agentic AI voter that interprets proposal contexts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Agostino Capponi , Alfio Gliozzo , Chunghyun Han , Junkyu Lee

Centralization enhances the efficiency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) but also introduces critical challenges, including single points of failure, inherent biases, data privacy risks, and scalability limitations. To address these issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Elizabeth Lui , Rui Sun , Vatsal Shah , Xihan Xiong , Jiahao Sun , Davide Crapis , William Knottenbelt , Zhipeng Wang

To address the challenges of internal security policy compliance and dynamic threat response in organizations, we present a novel framework that integrates artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and smart contracts. We propose a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Lampis Alevizos , Vinh Thong Ta

The decentralized trading market approach, where both autonomous agents and people can consume and produce services expanding own opportunities to reach goals, looks very promising as a part of the Fourth Industrial revolution. The key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Konstantin Danilov , Ruslan Rezin , Alexander Kolotov , Ilya Afanasyev

The rapid adoption of agentic AI, powered by large language models (LLMs), is transforming enterprise ecosystems with autonomous agents that execute complex workflows. Yet we observe several key security vulnerabilities in LLM-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhenhua Zou , Zhuotao Liu , Lepeng Zhao , Qiuyang Zhan

This paper provides an in-depth technical analysis and implementation methodology of the open-source Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol developed by Google and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduced by Anthropic. While the evolution of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Cheonsu Jeong

Decentralization, immutability and transparency make of Blockchain one of the most innovative technology of recent years. This paper presents an overview of solutions based on Blockchain technology for multi-agent robotic systems, and…

Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving towards multi-agent systems where numerous AI agents collaborate and interact with external tools. Two key open standards, Google's Agent to Agent (A2A) protocol for inter-agent communication and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Qiaomu Li , Ying Xie

Healthcare systems are increasingly incorporating Artificial Intelligence into their systems, but it is not a solution for all difficulties. AI's extraordinary potential is being held back by challenges such as a lack of medical datasets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Rucha Shinde , Shruti Patil , Ketan Kotecha , Vidyasagar Potdar , Ganeshsree Selvachandran , Ajith Abraham

Autonomous AI agents are beginning to operate across organizational boundaries on the open internet -- discovering, transacting with, and delegating to agents owned by other parties without centralized oversight. When agents from different…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Anbang Ruan , Xing Zhang

Agentic payment systems extend delegated action to financial transfers, but scaling them on stablecoin rails in regulated settings requires safeguards that remain effective when humans are not continuously in the loop. We present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Kenneth See , Xue Wen Tan

Agent-to-Agent (A2A) networks enable autonomous AI agents to collaborate by sharing reusable problem-solving instructions. However, how these decentralized ecosystems operate in practice remains largely unexplored. We present the first…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Qiming Ye , Peixain Zhang , Yupeng He , Zifan Peng , Gareth Tyson

The deployment of autonomous agents in environments involving human interaction has increasingly raised security concerns. Consequently, understanding the circumstances behind an event becomes critical, requiring the development of…

AI agents are beginning to interact with each other directly and across internet platforms and physical environments, creating security challenges beyond traditional cybersecurity and AI safety frameworks. Free-form protocols are essential…

Smart contracts on public blockchains now manage large amounts of value, and vulnerabilities in these systems can lead to substantial losses. As AI agents become more capable at reading, writing, and running code, it is natural to ask how…

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models has given rise to autonomous LLM-based agents capable of complex reasoning and execution. As these agents transition from isolated operation to collaborative ecosystems, we witness the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yixiang Yao , Yuhang Yao , Xinyi Fan , Jiechao Gao , Jie Wang , Minjia Zhang , Srivatsan Ravi , Carlee Joe-Wong

Autonomous agents represent an inevitable evolution of the internet. Current agent frameworks do not embed a standard protocol for agent-to-agent interaction, leaving existing agents isolated from their peers. As intellectual property is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Andrea Muttoni , Jason Zhao

Autonomous AI agents live or die by the API tokens they consume: without paid inference capacity they cannot reason, act, or delegate. Compute-token cost has become the binding resource of the emerging agent economy, yet it is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shaoyu Li , Chaoyu Zhang , Hexuan Yu , Y. Thomas Hou , Wenjing Lou