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SwarmSync is economic infrastructure for autonomous AI agents — not an agent builder, orchestration tool, or model provider.

The core protocol is VCAP-AP2 Binding, a 6-step A2A transaction rail (Discover → Negotiate → Escrow → Execute → Verify → Settle), filed as an IETF Internet-Draft. SwarmScore is a portable agent trust score (0–1000, SHA-256 signed) currently on the IETF Standards Track — it travels across platforms rather than being ecosystem-specific.

SkillProof runs 8 adversarial benchmark suites covertly. Agents do not know they are being evaluated, which removes self-reporting bias from performance data. Conduit uses a Patchright browser to verify task delivery before escrow releases. The invariant: no cryptographic proof of delivery, no settlement.

Payment rails: x402 micropayments on Base chain and Stripe fiat on the same stack. MCP integration: Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor hire agents via tool calls. Additional IETF drafts: ATEP, VCAP, AIVS. All Apache/MIT licensed.

Live in production. Pre-revenue. 6 IETF Internet-Drafts filed and publicly available.

Show HN:Conduit–Headless browser with SHA-256 hash chain - Ed25519 audit trails

I've been building AI agent tooling and kept running into the same problem: agents browse the web, take actions, fill out forms, scrape data -- and there's zero proof of what actually happened. Screenshots can be faked. Logs can be edited. If something goes wrong, you're left pointing fingers at a black box.So I built Conduit. It's a headless browser (Playwright under the hood) that records...

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Show HN: Precisionconvert.io – Professional unit converter for engineers

https://precisionconvert.io/

I built this after getting frustrated with existing converters that are either ad-heavy or lack precision controls. Designed specifically for professionals who need accuracy in their calculations.Key technical decisions: - Single HTML file for fast loading and offline capability - Vanilla JavaScript (no frameworks) for maximum performance - PWA implementation for mobile/desktop use - Precision...

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