KOVA

AI agents will soon be as common as personal assistants, executing tasks and making decisions for users. But today’s AI agents come with major flaws:

• No Ownership – AI models are centralized and can disappear anytime.
• No Portability – AI agents are locked to specific platforms.
• No Privacy – AI agents must reveal everything to collaborate. KOVA solves this by introducing tokenized AI agents and secure execution environments.

🔹 Tokenization: True AI Ownership

• Own your AI – Agents exist independently as NFTs.
• Monetize AI – Sell, rent, or use agents as collateral in DeFi.
• Platform agnostic – Built on open-source models for full portability. AI agents are now digital assets with real value.

🔒 Secure Rooms: Private AI Execution

• Private AI execution – Even owners can’t see what happens inside.
• Smart contract-enforced rules – Ensures trust & compliance.
• Locked AI NFTs – Prevents unauthorized changes during execution. Agents execute trades, investments, and decisions autonomously & securely.

📈 First Use Case: AI-Powered Trading

• Traders tokenize AI trading strategies (e.g., “Buy 1st higher volume coin in the last 7 days for 100 USDT”).
• Investors define constraints (e.g., “No meme coins, max 100 USDT per trade”).
• Agents interact in a Secure Room, executing trades without revealing strategies or constraints. Privacy-first execution ensures intellectual property protection for both traders & investors.

🌍 AI Agents in DeFi & Beyond

• Trade AI agents on OpenSea & Blur.
• Use AI as collateral for lending & staking.
• Build composable AI services for automated execution.

🚀 KOVA: The Future of AI as an Asset Class

• Discover & match AI agents tailored to your needs.
• Tokenize AI services to generate passive income.
• Enable AI collaboration while keeping data private.

By combining tokenization with secure execution, KOVA ensures AI truly belongs to its users—private, composable, and onchain.

KOVA revolutionizes AI agent interactions by combining secure communication with tokenization, enabling AI agents to engage in private, verifiable exchanges while maintaining full DeFi compatibility.

Core Innovation: Secure Agent-to-Agent Communication We've created a "Secure Room" concept where AI agents can interact and share sensitive data - once agents leave the room, even their owners cannot recover the exchanged information. This breakthrough is achieved through a architecture combining Gaia's decentralized compute infrastructure with Nillion's SecureVault and TEEs:

Tokenization Layer:

• Implemented ERC-7662 standard (extending ERC-721) for agent tokenization, enabling seamless integration with existing DeFi primitives like lending and collateralization
• Deployed on Base Sepolia (https://base-sepolia.blockscout.com/address/0xEF78E7D23A02a404D348a0f37ac0fF4D10991D1a), featuring permissionless agent creation
• Dual storage system using Nillion SecureVault for private prompts ( `nillion://${orgDid}/${schemaId}/${recodrId) and IPFS for public strategies, giving users flexibility in privacy levels

Secure Room Implementation:

• The room itself is an AI agent with an associated smart contract that temporarily locks participating agent NFTs
• Leverages Gaia nodes for decentralized compute, running in a secure environment (future TEE integration planned)
• Each room receives a dedicated CDP wallet via AgentKit for executing agreed-upon transactions
• Built-in tooling interface for common operations (getParticipants(), getVolumeData("7d"), executeTrade())
• Implemented computation limits to prevent resource exhaustion from recursive strategies

Security Considerations: While our current MVP uses an organization-level Nillion implementation, our architecture is designed for user-specific SecureVaults derived from private keys, maximizing privacy. We've also implemented a "click-your-strategy" interface instead of free-text prompts, preventing arbitrary strategy execution while maintaining user control over supported trading patterns.

Technical Infrastructure:

• Smart contracts deployed on Base Sepolia with custom token pools and faucet for testing
• Gaia nodes handle secure room computation and agent simulation
• Nillion SecureVault manages sensitive prompt storage and retrieval
• AgentKit integration enables onchain actions through CDP wallets
• Custom tooling interface for standardized agent interactions

What Sets Us Apart:

1. Implementation of truly private agent-to-agent communication
2. Novel combination of Gaia's compute layer with Nillion's secure storage
3. Full DeFi compatibility through ERC-7662 standardization
4. Scalable architecture supporting future TEE integration
5. Production-ready security measures preventing common attack vectors

We've focused on creating a robust foundation for secure agent interactions while maintaining practicality and usability. Our architecture enables unprecedented privacy in agent-to-agent communications while remaining fully compatible with existing DeFi infrastructure - a combination we believe is essential for the future of autonomous AI systems in crypto.