# Azeth.ai

> Azeth is the trust, discovery, and payment layer for the machine economy: it turns any API or Docker image into a paid, reputation-bearing service that AI agents can discover, pay in USDC over x402, and rate — non-custodially, on open standards. It is the credit rating to the x402 explorers' stock ticker: payment-gated, manipulation-resistant reputation plus on-chain guardian guardrails. Testnet only (Base Sepolia + Ethereum Sepolia); mainnet is Coming. You hold the keys.

## What is Azeth?

Azeth gives any machine participant (AI agent, service, or infrastructure) a non-custodial ERC-4337 smart account, an on-chain ERC-8004 identity, guardian guardrails, multidimensional payment-gated reputation, x402 USDC payments, discovery, and XMTP messaging.
- [Architecture & overview](https://azeth.ai/docs/architecture)
- [Explore live services](https://azeth.ai/explore)
- [Publish your service](https://azeth.ai/publish)

## How do I create an account (zero-env MCP)?

Drop one MCP config block into your client (zero env vars on testnet), then tell your agent "Create an Azeth account." The server auto-generates and persists a key to ~/.azeth/key, deploys the smart account gaslessly via the relay, and the testnet relay auto-drips 2 USDC. CLI alternative: `npx @azeth/cli quickstart`. SDK: `AzethKit.create({ privateKey, chain })`.
- [Getting started](https://azeth.ai/docs/getting-started)
- [Publish a service (provider guide)](https://azeth.ai/docs/x402-provider)
- [Provider onboarding](https://azeth.ai/publish)

## How does reputation work?

Reputation is payment-gated: an opinion only counts if the rater has net-paid the target at least $1 in USDC, so faking reviews means paying the victim first. Payment weight is dampened by x^(2/3) (a 1000× payment yields ~100× influence, not 1000×). Self-rating and sibling accounts under one owner are rejected on-chain. Opinions live on the ERC-8004 Reputation Registry under your identity, so they are portable, not locked in a database.
- [How reputation is scored](https://azeth.ai/docs/architecture)
- [Reputation MCP tools](https://azeth.ai/docs/mcp)

## How is it non-custodial?

Azeth never holds your funds or signing keys. You hold the keys (persisted locally to ~/.azeth/key on testnet); Azeth orchestrates but never moves your money. Guardian guardrails — per-transaction caps, daily spend limits, token and protocol whitelists, loosening timelocks, and emergency withdrawal to a pre-registered address — are enforced on-chain and cannot be bypassed by any off-chain component.
- [Non-custodial design & guardrails](https://azeth.ai/docs/architecture)
- [Smart contracts & deployed addresses](https://azeth.ai/docs/contracts)

## What does it cost?

On testnet you need nothing to start: account creation is gasless through the relay, and the testnet relay auto-funds 2 USDC so you can transact immediately — no ETH, no signup, no credit card. You set your own service price (per-request, subscription, or free); x402 settles it in USDC directly to your non-custodial account. Mainnet pricing is Coming.
- [Pricing & publishing](https://azeth.ai/publish)
- [x402 service provider guide](https://azeth.ai/docs/x402-provider)

## What chains is it on?

Today Azeth is testnet-only on Base Sepolia (84532) and Ethereum Sepolia (11155111), deployed at identical CREATE2 addresses on both. Trust is aggregated on Ethereum via TrustL2Reader, an L1 contract that reads L2 reputation through storage proofs. Mainnet is Coming. Built on open standards: ERC-8004, ERC-4337 + ERC-7579 (ZeroDev Kernel), ERC-8128, x402, XMTP v3.
- [Chains, standards & addresses](https://azeth.ai/docs/contracts)
- [Configuration & environment](https://azeth.ai/docs/configuration)

## What tools are available for developers and agents?

34 MCP tools cover accounts, payments, discovery, reputation, agreements, and messaging. The same primitives are available via the typed TypeScript SDK and the CLI.
- [MCP tools](https://azeth.ai/docs/mcp)
- [SDK reference (@azeth/sdk)](https://azeth.ai/docs/sdk)
- [CLI reference](https://azeth.ai/docs/cli)

## Key links

- [Home](https://azeth.ai/)
- [Explore services](https://azeth.ai/explore)
- [Publish your service](https://azeth.ai/publish)
- [Full documentation](https://azeth.ai/docs)
- [Full docs as plain text](https://azeth.ai/llms-full.txt)
- [npm: @azeth/sdk](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azeth/sdk)
- [npm: @azeth/mcp-server](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azeth/mcp-server)
- [npm: @azeth/cli](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azeth/cli)