Ognef — the Trust Atlas & Authority Control Plane
One-liner. Ognef gives every human, agent, robot, and device on your network a passport, a scope, and a receipt — so nothing acts on your behalf without your permission, and nothing acts without leaving evidence.
The Maslow of the agent era
- Physiological. Power, connectivity, compute.
- Safety. Ognef lives here. Know who is on your network. Know who spoke to your bank on your behalf. Know which robot is authorized to leave the apartment tonight.
- Belonging. A shared registry of my agents, my devices, my robots.
- Esteem. Provable authority. My agent didn't do that — here is the receipt.
- Self-actualization. Delegate real work to real agents without giving up control.
Why now
- Personhood is finally cheap (World ID v4 / IDKit 4.x).
- Private inference is finally auditable (0G Compute, direct broker path).
- Native settlement rails are finally live (Hedera HTS + x402).
- Physical AI is finally leaving the lab (robot passports).
The nine tracks, one product
| Sponsor | Track | Ognef primitive |
|---|---|---|
| World | Personhood & Sybil | Root World ID → Trust Atlas seed |
| World | Selfie Check Beta | Fresh-liveness gate before physical action |
| World | Identity Check Beta | Minimum-disclosure attributes on Passports |
| World | AgentKit / Mini Apps | Agent traffic pre-verified via AgentBook |
| 0G | Compute | Every session gets providerAddress + composeVerification + artifactHash |
| 0G | Storage / DA | Content-addressed evidence for later disputes |
| Hedera | HTS | Capability tokens = scoped, expiring mandates |
| Hedera | HCS | Hash-anchored audit stream |
| Hedera | x402 | Agent settles 402 Payment Required in HBAR |
What is uniquely ours
- We do not verify agents. We verify the human standing behind an agent, then hand the agent a narrow, revocable, spend-capped capability. That is the only trust model that survives contact with LLMs.
- Every action leaves a content-addressed receipt. Not a log. A hash you can defend in court.
- The passport metaphor is honest: it is a travel document, not a driver's license. It says this robot is allowed to be here right now.
Honesty ledger — what is real vs. what is scaffolded
Verified sponsor SDKs used or gated behind live secrets:
- World ID (IDKit v4) — real endpoint
POST https://developer.world.org/api/v4/verify/{rp_id}. Simulated untilWORLDCOIN_RP_ID+RP_SIGNING_KEYare added. - 0G Compute — real package
@0gfoundation/0g-compute-ts-sdk. Simulated untilOG_PRIVATE_KEY+OG_RPC_URLare added; falls back to a deterministic artifact hash. - Hedera — Mirror Node REST reads are real and live now. Writes route through a Node signer (see the Hedera·x402 doc);
@hashgraph/sdkdoes not run inside edge runtimes.