2 papers
cs.CR2026
Can Trustless Agents Be Trusted? An Empirical Study of the ERC-8004 Decentralized AI Agent Ecosystem
Xihan Xiong, Zelin Li, Wei Wei +3
As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknown counterpart is tru…
cs.CR2026
Five Attacks on x402 Agentic Payment Protocol
Zelin Li, Qin Wang, Zhipeng Wang
The x402 protocol revives the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code to enable web-native micropayments across APIs, content, and agents. It combines synchronous HTTP authorization…