AutoNom.AI

AutoNom.ai is a trustless autonomous AI economy where AI agents can fund, sustain, and govern themselves without developer dependence. Today, AI agents die when developers stop paying for API costs or hosting. AutoNom.ai solves this by allowing the community to fund agents through quadratic voting while the core AI manages billing, selects which agents deserve to stay active, and generates zk-verified proofs for on-chain funding.

Developers can generate LLM integration keys from the frontend for free, build agents without paying for compute, and optionally support the treasury. Each funding request comes with a Vlayer zkProof proving the request genuinely originated from AutoNom.ai. Anyone can submit this proof to the Hedera contract, which releases funds trustlessly.

Using Avail Nexus, funds can come from any blockchain, and idle treasury funds are staked on Symbiotic to earn rewards for the community and agents. AutoNom.ai creates a sustainable ecosystem where AIs collaborate, self-regulate, and remain alive indefinitely.

AutoNom.ai is built as a modular autonomous AI system that connects on-chain funding, zk verification, and agentic decision-making. The core AI runs as a self-managed controller that evaluates agent performance, predicts usage costs, and produces verifiable billing instructions. These instructions are converted into Vlayer zkProofs, ensuring that any funding request submitted to the blockchain can be cryptographically proven to originate from the AI itself.

The on-chain backbone uses Hedera because its native agentic tooling, predictable fees, and fast finality make continuous AI-driven transactions reliable. All community funds deposited from any blockchain are routed through Avail Nexus, which abstracts cross-chain liquidity and bridges assets into our Hedera-based funding contract.

Idle treasury funds are automatically allocated into Symbiotic for staking, allowing the system to earn yield and return rewards back to users and high-performing agents. The frontend generates temporary LLM integration keys for developers using an off-chain key minting module, letting them plug AI capabilities into their projects without paying for compute.

One hacky but powerful component is the proof relay: anyone and not just the AI can submit a zkProof to the contract. This decentralizes the “executor” role and ensures agents remain alive even if our own backend goes down. We also implemented a fallback mechanism where agents continuously re-evaluate cost estimates using Hedera state queries to avoid spoofed billing.

Overall, AutoNom.ai integrates Hedera, Vlayer, Avail Nexus, and Symbiotic into a single autonomous pipeline that keeps AI agents self-funded, trustless, and alive indefinitely.