Ant Digital Tech Proposes New Architecture for Agent Economy, Covering Four Layers: Identity, Payment, Risk Control, and Compliance
Ant Digital Technologies (Ant Digital) has introduced a new architectural framework for the agentic economy, named the "4R Full-Stack Architecture," at the Hong Kong Web3 Festival. The framework is designed to address four core challenges in AI agent operations: identity, payment, risk control, and compliance.
The four layers include:
- **Agentic Runtime**, featuring DTClaw with the CARLI security model to enforce behavioral constraints and ensure controllability and auditability;
- **Payment Rails**, which provide on-chain payment channels supporting smart decision-making, verifiable credentials, instant settlement, and cross-chain asset transfers;
- **Agent Registry**, leveraging DIDs and the ERC-8004 standard to assign verifiable on-chain identities to agents;
- **Root Infrastructure**, built on Jovay Layer2 and ZKVM technology to enable high-speed micro-payments and trusted off-chain computation with on-chain verification.
According to CTO Yan Ying, the architecture aims to resolve fundamental gaps in the current agent economy—such as execution vulnerabilities, identity issues, payment barriers, and trust deficits—by redesigning underlying infrastructure rather than applying superficial fixes. The initiative builds on Ant Digital’s extensive experience in financial-grade security, privacy computing, and blockchain.
marsbit04/20 09:24
