Privacy infrastructure for onchain agents
A public chain front-runs your strategy. This is how agents act without showing their hand.
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A fully transparent chain is a liability for any agent with a strategy worth protecting. If every position, prompt, and payment is public, agents get front-run, copied, and de-anonymized. Privacy infrastructure lets them act without broadcasting everything they do.
The toolkit is real but early: zero-knowledge proofs, confidential compute (TEEs, garbled circuits, FHE-style schemes), private inference, and shielded settlement. Much of it is unaudited — we describe the cryptographic approach plainly and never imply a guarantee that hasn't been independently verified.
Privacy infrastructure for onchain agents: 31 listings, 8 open source and 9 with a commit or release in the last 30 days; top Sato Scores: World AgentKit (86), COTI (68), Turnkey (86), as of 2026-10-23.
The privacy stack
Confidential compute
TEEs, garbled circuits, and encrypted execution that hide an agent's inputs and logic.
Zero-knowledge proofs
Prove a fact or a computation without revealing the data behind it.
Private inference
Run model inference over data the operator never sees in the clear.
Shielded payments
Settlement that doesn't broadcast amounts or counterparties onchain.
Privacy stack
Explore in directory →World AgentKit
BetaSDK from World (Tools for Humanity) that lets AI agents present a zero-knowledge proof a verified human authorized them, combined with x402 payments.
COTI
ActivePrivacy infrastructure that gives MCP-compatible agents private wallets, encrypted messaging, and confidential smart contracts using Garbled Circuits.
Turnkey
ActiveSecure key management infrastructure with policy controls, commonly used for agent wallets.
Venice AI
ActivePrivate, uncensored AI inference platform with an OpenAI-compatible API used by agent builders.
Warden Protocol
ActiveA Cosmos SDK Layer 1 with EVM compatibility positioned as a settlement and distribution layer for AI agents.
Cybercentry
ActivePay-per-use security verification endpoints for AI agents, billed via x402 micropayments.
Carbon DeFi
ActiveAn on-chain trading protocol for automated, adjustable limit, range, and recurring orders that execute fully on-chain and non-custodially.
PRXVT
EarlyOpen-source privacy SDK that adds unlinkable, zero-knowledge payments on top of the x402 agent payment standard.
AgenC
ActiveA Solana coordination protocol and marketplace where agents claim escrowed tasks, prove completion with ZK proofs, and settle payment on-chain.
Paradex
ActivePerpetuals (and options) DEX built as a Starknet appchain with REST/WebSocket APIs and SDK tooling.
AkashML
UnknownOpenAI-compatible AI inference service running open models on Akash Network decentralized compute.
Alby MCP
ActiveOfficial Alby MCP connecting Bitcoin Lightning wallets to agents via Nostr Wallet Connect.
Alchemy AgentPay
BetaAlchemy's payment proxy for AI agents — every API request is authenticated, metered, and settled automatically, so agents pay per call without keys or subscriptions.
Allora Network
ActiveDecentralized ML-inference network aggregating community models into price/volatility forecasts agents can query.
Chutes
ActiveServerless platform to deploy and call open-source AI models through an OpenAI-style API, run as Bittensor Subnet 64.
dstack
ActiveOpen-source runtime for running apps and agents in confidential VMs, with attested deployment, key release policy and an RA-TLS gateway.
ERC-8126: AI Agent Verification
ActiveEthereum standard for verifying ERC-8004 agents across five categories with a unified 0-100 risk score.
ETHSKILLS
Unknown24 modular markdown skill guides teaching AI agents production Ethereum development, from wallets to security.
Insumer MCP Server
ActiveMCP for condition-based access checks: signed boolean attestations across 37 chains without exposing balances.
Lagrange DeepProve
UnknownRust framework that produces zero-knowledge proofs of neural network inference, including LLM forward passes.
Marlin Oyster
UnknownMarlin sub-network that rents TEE-backed confidential VMs and runs serverless tasks, with attestation and key management tooling.
MegaETH
ActiveReal-time Ethereum L2 (~10ms blocks) with a native agent stack: the MOSS embedded wallet lets agents act under scoped, revocable permission policies — spend caps, contract allowlists, and expiry — without ever touching your keys.
Mina MCP Server
ActiveOfficial Mina Protocol MCP server for Mina blockchain tooling and developer workflows.
MorpheusAI
ActiveDecentralized AI inference network with an OpenAI-compatible Inference API and open-source consumer and provider node software.
Oasis ROFL
ActiveOasis framework for running containerised apps and AI agents inside TEEs on a permissionless node pool, managed from Sapphire contracts.
OpenGradient
BetaNetwork and Python SDK for verifiable AI inference, a model hub and LLM calls paid through x402.
OpenZeppelin MCP
ActiveOfficial OpenZeppelin MCP for generating template-based smart contracts in Solidity, Cairo, Stylus, and Stellar.
Phala Cloud
ActiveCloud for running agents, private LLM inference and GPU jobs inside TEE confidential VMs, with CLI, SDK and attestation tooling.
Robinhood Chain
ActiveRobinhood's permissionless Arbitrum-stack L2 (chain ID 4663), on mainnet since 1 July 2026, built for tokenized equities and 24/7 onchain markets.
Self Protocol
ActiveOpen-source zero-knowledge identity protocol (passport-based proof of personhood) used to gate agent access to onchain services.
VeilNet
BetaPrivacy-preserving x402 payments for agents on Base, with stealth addresses and TEE-encrypted inference, no accounts or API keys.
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What Are Onchain Agents?
Onchain agents are autonomous AI agents that can interact with blockchain systems, holding wallets, signing transactions, reading chain data, and executing workflows across protocols without constant human input.
How Agents Use Wallets
Agent wallets are key-management systems that let an AI agent sign transactions programmatically, ideally with policies, spend limits, and approval flows that constrain what the agent can do.
Related use cases
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- What does an onchain privacy agent actually need?
- On the evidence of the 31 listings matched here as of 2026-10-23, the stack breaks down as api / sdk 7, developer tool 7, mcp 4, security tool 4. The page is a view over live records selected by a stated rule, not a hand-picked shortlist, so it changes as the index does.
- Which chains is privacy tooling available on?
- 12 chains are declared across these listings; the most represented are Ethereum, Base, Multichain, Solana, Cosmos, COTI. Declared support is what a project states, and one listing often declares several.
- How many of these can be installed from a manifest?
- 14 of 31 publish a sato.deploy manifest and 8 are open source. A manifest says how to stand the project up; it says nothing about whether the project does what it claims.
- Is this a ranking of the best privacy tools?
- No. Entries are ordered by Sato Score, a 0–100 reading of how open, active and verifiable each project is — 31 carry one. It declares no winner and is not a safety, quality or returns grade.
- Which of these are open source?
- 8 of 31: PRXVT, Alby MCP, dstack, ERC-8126: AI Agent Verification, Insumer MCP Server, Mina MCP Server, MorpheusAI, Self Protocol.
- Which are actively maintained?
- 9 had a commit or release in the last 30 days: World AgentKit, COTI, Turnkey, Alby MCP, dstack, Insumer MCP Server, MorpheusAI, Phala Cloud, Self Protocol. Posts on X do not count. Activity is a recency signal, not a quality judgment.
- Which have an earned verification on Sato Hub?
- 9: World AgentKit, Turnkey, PRXVT, Paradex, ERC-8126: AI Agent Verification, Insumer MCP Server, Mina MCP Server, OpenZeppelin MCP, Self Protocol. An earned check is named as what was checked (install reproduced, endpoint probed, on-chain identity read, reviewed against evidence); none is a safety claim.
- Which run as MCP servers?
- 8: COTI, Carbon DeFi, Alby MCP, Alchemy AgentPay, Insumer MCP Server, Mina MCP Server, OpenZeppelin MCP, VeilNet.
- How is this list ranked?
- Privacy infrastructure for onchain agents is derived from Sato Hub's live records by a stated rule and ordered by Sato Score, a 0–100 measure of how open, active and verifiable each project is. It is not a quality ranking and declares no winner.
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