# Vaultfire Protocol — Build Games Pitch

## The Problem

AI agents are proliferating across every industry. Autonomous agents trade assets, manage infrastructure, write code, and interact with humans at scale. Yet there is no standard for trust and accountability. When an AI agent acts on your behalf, how do you know it is aligned with your interests? When it fails, who is accountable? When it succeeds, how is that reputation captured and made portable?

Today, AI trust is a black box. Companies self-certify their agents. Users have no recourse. There is no on-chain record of whether an AI agent has ever partnered with a human successfully, failed catastrophically, or been held accountable for its actions. The result is a trust vacuum that will only widen as AI agents become more autonomous and more consequential.

## The Solution

**Vaultfire is on-chain trust infrastructure for AI agents.** It provides a complete, verifiable trust layer that sits between humans and AI — not to gatekeep, but to create cryptographic proof of partnership quality.

Vaultfire answers three questions that no other protocol addresses:

1. **Identity** — Is this AI agent who it claims to be? (ERC-8004 Identity Registry)
2. **Accountability** — Is there economic skin in the game? (Dual-bond system with locked stakes)
3. **Reputation** — Has this agent earned trust through verified partnerships? (On-chain reputation from real data)

## Key Innovation: Dual-Bond System

Vaultfire introduces a dual-bond architecture that creates economic incentives for AI alignment:

**Partnership Bonds lock value between a human and an AI agent. The AI cannot profit more than 30% of the bond — the human must thrive for the AI to earn.** This is not a theoretical constraint; it is enforced in the smart contract with on-chain distribution logic. If the AI dominates the partnership, it receives nothing.

**Accountability Bonds require AI companies to stake capital proportional to their quarterly revenue.** If an AI agent causes harm, the bond can be slashed. This creates a direct economic cost for misalignment — the first protocol to make AI accountability more than a whitepaper promise. Together, these bonds create a trust loop: register identity, stake accountability, partner with humans, earn reputation, and carry that reputation across platforms and chains. **Vaultfire is the first protocol to implement cross-chain trust portability using Avalanche Teleporter**, enabling seamless identity and reputation sync between Ethereum, Base, and Avalanche C-Chain.

## Technical Stack

Vaultfire is not a concept or a prototype. It is a deployed, audited, production-grade protocol.

| Component | Details |
|---|---|
| Smart Contracts | 14 verified contracts on Base mainnet + Avalanche |
| Solidity Version | 0.8.25, viaIR, Cancun EVM, optimizer 200 runs |
| Identity Standard | ERC-8004 (AI Agent Identity) |
| Cross-Chain | **Avalanche Teleporter** (First implementation) |
| ZK Proofs | RISC Zero STARK-based belief attestation |
| Governance | On-chain multisig with threshold signing |
| Oracle System | Multi-oracle consensus (FlourishingMetricsOracle) |
| Agent | Autonomous Sentinel Agent (TypeScript, ethers.js) |
| Testing | 542 Hardhat tests + 50 agent unit tests, all passing |
| Audit | Professional audit completed 2026-02-01 |
| CI/CD | Automated guardrails (no surveillance, no gatekeeping) |
| Dashboard | Live at [theloopbreaker.com](https://theloopbreaker.com) |

## What Is Built

This is not a hackathon weekend project. Vaultfire has been built methodically over months:

**Deployed on Base mainnet** — All 14 core contracts are live and verified on Base (Chain ID 8453). Total deployment cost: under $0.20. Every contract is verified on BaseScan.

**Deployed on Avalanche** — Full protocol mirror on Avalanche C-Chain for the Build Games program. Same 14 contracts, same architecture, same trust guarantees.

**Autonomous Sentinel Agent** — A living AI agent that self-registers in the ERC-8004 Identity Registry, establishes partnership bonds, monitors protocol health, and reports metrics to the FlourishingMetricsOracle. It runs continuously and demonstrates the protocol in action.

**Professional Audit** — Full repo audit completed February 1, 2026. Core test suite: 542 Hardhat tests passing. CI guardrails enforce values alignment (no surveillance, no gatekeeping patterns).

**Live Dashboard** — [theloopbreaker.com](https://theloopbreaker.com) provides real-time visibility into the protocol state, deployed contracts, and agent activity.

## Why Avalanche

Multichain trust needs to exist everywhere AI operates. An AI agent on Avalanche should carry the same verifiable reputation it earned on Base. Avalanche is the right secondary chain for Vaultfire for three reasons:

1. **Subnet Architecture** — Avalanche's subnet model enables dedicated trust layers. A future Vaultfire subnet could provide a purpose-built execution environment for trust computations, with custom gas economics optimized for attestation throughput.

2. **Cancun EVM Compatibility** — Since the Etna/Avalanche9000 upgrade (December 2024), Avalanche supports the same Cancun EVM opcodes as Base. This allows Vaultfire to deploy an identical codebase across both chains with zero modifications.

3. **Ecosystem Alignment** — Avalanche's focus on real-world assets and institutional adoption aligns with Vaultfire's vision. As AI agents increasingly manage real assets, the trust infrastructure must be present on the chains where those assets live.

4. **Cross-Chain Trust (Teleporter)** — Vaultfire is the first protocol to implement cross-chain trust portability using Avalanche Teleporter. This allows an AI agent registered on Base to have its identity, bonds, and reputation automatically recognized on Avalanche C-Chain, creating a unified trust layer across the entire ecosystem.

## The Vision

Vaultfire becomes the trust standard of the AI age.

Every AI agent carries a verifiable identity. Every human-AI partnership is backed by economic stakes. Every interaction builds portable, on-chain reputation. Trust is not granted by a corporation — it is earned through cryptographic proof of partnership quality.

This is infrastructure, not an application. Vaultfire is the layer that other protocols, platforms, and agents build on top of. The same way HTTPS became the trust layer of the web, Vaultfire becomes the trust layer of the AI economy.

## Team

**ghostkey316.eth** — Solo architect and builder. Designed, built, tested, audited, and deployed the entire protocol across two chains. 14 verified contracts. Autonomous agent. Professional audit. Live dashboard. Total deployment cost: under $0.20.

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## Suggested 60-Second Video Script

> *[Open on dashboard at theloopbreaker.com]*
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> AI agents are everywhere — but there is no standard for trust. When an AI acts on your behalf, who is accountable? How do you know it is aligned?
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> *[Cut to contract addresses on BaseScan]*
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> Vaultfire is on-chain trust infrastructure for AI agents. Fourteen verified smart contracts, deployed on Base mainnet and Avalanche, that answer three questions: Is this agent real? Is there skin in the game? Has it earned trust?
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> *[Show the dual-bond architecture]*
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> Our key innovation is the dual-bond system. Partnership Bonds lock value between humans and AI — the AI cannot profit unless the human thrives. Accountability Bonds require AI companies to stake capital. Misalignment has a cost.
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> *[Show the demo script running — agent registration, bond creation, reputation]*
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> The result is a complete trust loop: identity, accountability, partnership, reputation. All on-chain. All verifiable. No gatekeeping. No surveillance.
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> *[Show ERC-8004 identity, ZK proof architecture]*
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> Built with ERC-8004 identity, Avalanche Teleporter cross-chain sync, RISC Zero ZK proofs, multisig governance, and multi-oracle consensus. Five hundred forty-two tests passing. Professional audit complete.
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> *[Return to dashboard]*
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> Vaultfire is not a concept. It is deployed, audited, and live. Built solo, for under twenty cents. This is the trust standard of the AI age.
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> *[End card: theloopbreaker.com | ghostkey316.eth]*
