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moltrust

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MolTrust

  • Name: MolTrust
  • URL: https://moltrust.ch/
  • Category: agent trust infrastructure / identity-and-verifiable-credentials control plane / x402-native reputation and market-integrity API
  • Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
  • Summary: MolTrust is an x402-adjacent trust sidecar. It scores Base wallets, issues credentials, and can gate payment flows before they clear. Useful because it makes the trust check explicit instead of burying it in seller policy.
  • What it does:
    • Provides wallet-level trust scoring for Base addresses using onchain activity, counterparties, balances, ERC-8004 registration, reputation cross-references, and Sybil penalties
    • Runs the MoltGuard API for agent scoring, Sybil detection, Polymarket anomaly monitoring, and verifiable-credential issuance and verification
    • Issues W3C Verifiable Credentials signed with Ed25519 and anchored to MolTrust’s DID and identity infrastructure
    • Supports agent discovery and trust exchange through DID:web, ERC-8004 references, A2A-compatible agent cards, and MCP tools
    • Accepts agent-native payment patterns via x402 on Base and Lightning payments, while also offering public free-tier endpoints during early access
    • Ships developer integration surfaces including an MCP endpoint and the @moltrust/x402 middleware that checks paying-wallet trust scores before allowing x402 payment flows to continue
  • Key claims:
    • The homepage calls MolTrust the “Trust Layer for the Agent Economy” and frames the product around pre-transaction identity verification, reputation scoring, and W3C Verifiable Credentials for AI agents
    • The same homepage says trust services include agent trust score, Sybil detection, prediction-market integrity, and verifiable credentials, with the stack described as “x402-native on Base” and also Lightning-capable
    • The MoltGuard page says the product is “The first verifiable anomaly tracker for prediction markets” and documents free and paid endpoints for wallet trust score, Sybil scans, market feeds, and credential issuance
    • That page details a concrete scoring model based on wallet age, transaction count, counterparties, USDC balance, ERC-8004 registration, MolTrust reputation, credential bonus, and Sybil penalties, which makes the product look operational rather than purely narrative
    • The technical section says MoltGuard exposes seven MCP tools over https://api.moltrust.ch/mcp, uses @x402/hono, and is built around Base, Blockscout, Polymarket Gamma, and Ed25519 credential signing
    • The public @moltrust/x402 repository shows a practical middleware product that reads the X-PAYMENT header, queries MoltGuard’s scoring endpoint, enforces a minimum score, and intentionally fails open if MoltGuard is unavailable
    • The combined source set strongly suggests MolTrust is aiming to become a reusable trust and integrity layer for agentic payments and autonomous market interactions, not just a standalone dashboard
  • Whitepaper: No canonical standalone MolTrust or MoltGuard whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official site, MoltGuard product page, API docs entrypoint, and public middleware repository; see ../whitepapers/moltrust-primary-sources-2026-05-03.md.
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