At the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026
@festival_web3, Ant Digital Technologies CTO
@frida_ying delivered a keynote speech titled "AI x Web3 Convergence: Building the Trust Layer for the Agentic Economy."
As agents become independent economic actors, they face 4 critical cracks:
🔹Prompt Jailbreaks: Logic vulnerabilities & lack of safety boundaries.
🔹Identity Crisis: No KYC/KYB, anonymous wallets, no legal liability.
🔹Payment Deadlock: CAPTCHAs & biometrics block AI from traditional finance.
🔹Trust Deficit: No way to verify strangers in autonomous A2A transactions.
We believe Web3 is the trust layer AI needs.
@frida_ying introduces our 4R Full-Stack Architecture to rebuild the foundation:
1️⃣ Agentic Runtime (DTClaw):
A secure OS for agents. With our CARLI security model, it prevents logic hijacking and ensures financial-grade compliance. It turns risky code into safe, auditable digital labor. 🔗
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2️⃣ Payment Rails:
Native, programmable settlement. AI can’t pass CAPTCHAs, so we built our Agent Wallet (MPC-based) and gasless micro-payment channels. Money flows like data—fast, autonomous, and compliant.
3️⃣ Agent Registry:
On-chain identity via DID (ERC-8004). Every agent gets a unique "Digital Passport" with verifiable reputation and skills. Our Security Guard ensures every A2A handshake is authenticated and safe.
4️⃣ Root Infrastructure (Agentic chain):
Powered by Jovay and zkVM. We enable verifiable AI—proving compute correctness without re-running tasks. This solves the scalability and trust issues at the deepest level.
The future isn't just AI. It's AI + Trust.
We are building the infrastructure where agents are safe, payments are fluid, identities are verified, and compute is trusted.
Let's pave the road for the agentic economy together. 🚀