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Hundreds of thousands of agents are registered on ERC-8004, a genuinely large number, and proof the industry moved fast on giving agents a way to describe themselves on-chain.

But registration there answers what an agent does, not who’s accountable for it.

Built permissionless by design, the standard was never meant to verify ownership, which means most of those registrations carry no real link back to a person or business responsible for the agent.

Concordium’s Agent Registry sits underneath that gap. Over 1,600 agents carry verified ownership through cryptographic keys, checkable by any counterparty before a transaction happens, a smaller number by design, because every single one meets a bar the larger figure was never built to enforce.

Scale is easy to report.

Verified accountability is the harder number worth tracking.