Nell's governance chain - organizational charter, behavioral specification, commercial authorization, and her measurement history - was registered on a public blockchain registry, independently verifiable by anyone before a transaction happens. No phone call. No login. No trust assumption.
Disclosure by design. Nell's card uses the same registry and the same format as every other agent - the difference is a governance section no other card carries, and anyone can read it before deciding to engage.
Every agent in the registry has a card: a name, a
few endpoints, a wallet. Nell's card has all of that - and then a governanceChain
object that no other card has: a signed organizational charter, a behavioral specification, a
commercial authorization framework, and a measurement chain. Same format. Same registry.
Radically different substance. And all of it independently verifiable.
✓ Registered on the ERC-8004 Identity Registry on Base mainnet - an NFT pointing to an agent card on IPFS, public and immutable, readable without contacting any Applied Identities system.
ERC-8004 token 37852 · registry 0x8004A169…a432 · Base mainnet
Disclosure isn't all-or-nothing. The same chain answers three different people at three different depths - the way a company's finances are legible to the public, to an auditor, and to its own board in three very different amounts of detail.
Public - a credit rating. Anyone querying the registry sees the grades: organizational governance verified, behavioral specification active, commercial authorization active and constrained, chain integrity intact. You see the grade, not the balance sheet. It's enough to decide whether to engage.
Tier 1 · in the IPFS agent card · no authentication required
Auditor - an audit report. An authenticated counterparty - a financial auditor, a PE operating partner, a regulator - gets the risk view: the constraint envelope, transaction volume within bounds, the full chain-integrity audit, and the composite behavioral score with its drift history over time. You see the financial health and the risk trend, not every internal email.
Tier 2 · scoped disclosure through the verification endpoint
Principal - the operational view. The organization's own governance team - the people accountable for how Nell behaves - see everything: individual transactions, raw governance documents, the complete internal record.
Tier 3 · principals and the accountable governance team
An agent you can verify without trusting us. This happened. March 29, 2026. On a public registry. Read it yourself.