{"ID":2831255,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08737","arxiv_id":"2512.08737","title":"Insured Agents: A Decentralized Trust Insurance Mechanism for Agentic Economy","abstract":"The emerging \"agentic web\" envisions large populations of autonomous agents coordinating, transacting, and delegating across open networks. Yet many agent communication and commerce protocols treat agents as low-cost identities, despite the empirical reality that LLM agents remain unreliable, hallucinated, manipulable, and vulnerable to prompt-injection and tool-abuse. A natural response is \"agents-at-stake\": binding economically meaningful, slashable collateral to persistent identities and adjudicating misbehavior with verifiable evidence. However, heterogeneous tasks make universal verification brittle and centralization-prone, while traditional reputation struggles under rapid model drift and opaque internal states. We propose a protocol-native alternative: insured agents. Specialized insurer agents post stake on behalf of operational agents in exchange for premiums, and receive privileged, privacy-preserving audit access via TEEs to assess claims. A hierarchical insurer market calibrates stake through pricing, decentralizes verification via competitive underwriting, and yields incentive-compatible dispute resolution.","short_abstract":"The emerging \"agentic web\" envisions large populations of autonomous agents coordinating, transacting, and delegating across open networks. Yet many agent communication and commerce protocols treat agents as low-cost identities, despite the empirical reality that LLM agents remain unreliable, hallucinated, manipulable,...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08737","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08737v1","authors":"[\"Botao 'Amber' Hu\",\"Bangdao Chen\"]","published":"2025-12-09T15:47:16Z","proceeding":"cs.CY","tasks":"[\"cs.CY\",\"cs.MA\"]","methods":"[\"Large Language Model\"]","has_code":false}