The Trust Layer for AI Agents: How Ungate Wukong Leverages EigenLayer for Trust-Minimized Autonomous Agents

Overview

We live in a world where we trust machines with our most important decisions—our money, our security, and even our identities. But trust without verification is just blind faith. What if you could know, with certainty, that an AI is genuinely acting on its own without hidden hands pulling the strings?

Ungate Wukong transforms this paradigm by establishing absolute verification at the core. As a pioneering AI-focused AVS on EigenLayer mainnet, they've created the Verifiable Agents Cloud, where AI agents don't just claim autonomy; they prove it cryptographically. Running inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and validated through EigenLayer's decentralized network, these agents generate proof of every action they take.

The result is AI that is transparent, accountable, and trustworthy through cryptographic certainty. Founded in June 2024, Ungate has been secured by over $5 billion ETH restaked on its platform, marking a fundamental redefinition of what's possible when autonomous agents meet verifiable truth.

The Opportunity

The current landscape of AI automation highlights critical gaps in verification. As agents increasingly control billions in digital assets and execute critical operations, the risks of unverified execution become apparent:

1. Black-Box Execution: Without cryptographic proof, there's no way to verify if an agent made a decision independently or was overridden by external intervention
2. No Reputation Mechanism: Agents can operate without verifiable accountability, allowing malicious or poorly designed systems to act without consequence
3. Wallet Control: Developers may retain access to an agent's private keys, compromising true autonomy and sovereign execution
4. Legal & Financial Liability: If developers maintain control over an agent's private keys, they become legally responsible for all agent actions—from trading to governance to fund management

Through EigenLayer's economic security model and decentralized validation framework, Ungate Wukong creates a new verification paradigm. Every agent operation is independently verified by the network of restaked ETH validators, establishing a more trust-minimized foundation for autonomous AI execution.

The Solution

Ungate leverages EigenLayer's decentralized security infrastructure to build verifiable AI agents you can actually trust. Not through promises, but through cryptographic proof.

The EigenLayer Advantage

When AI agents control billions in assets, verification can't be optional. EigenLayer's economic security and validation infrastructure ensures every agent operation is verified. This creates true accountability: agent developers can prove their systems operate autonomously, and users can verify this for themselves. How it works:

1. Secure Deployment: AI agents live inside TEEs– ensuring isolated and tamper-resistant execution 
2. Proof Generation: Agents produce Proofs of Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Integrity, which are cryptographically signed, stored on EigenDA, and archived on FileCoin.
3. Decentralized Verification: EigenLayer's network of restaked ETH validators independently verify these proofs.
4. On-Chain Record: Verified executions are recorded onchain, creating an immutable audit trail anyone can verify.

The Technical Innovation:

• Decentralized Validation: Instead of trusting a central authority, verification comes from EigenLayer's network of independent validators.
• Complete Infrastructure: Ungate's Verifiable Agents Cloud provides everything needed for truly autonomous AI operations– from secure execution environments to cryptographic proof generation.
• Economic Security: EigenLayer's restaking mechanism ensures agent developers have real stakes in maintaining system integrity.

Through Ungate’s partnership with Nuffle Labs, this verification framework is expanding beyond Ethereum. Soon, projects will be able to restake SOL, NEAR, BASE, VIRTUAL, and other tokens, creating a unified verification layer for autonomous AI across all major blockchains.

What’s Next

The launch of Ungate on EigenLayer is setting a new standard for verifiable agents. Through cryptographic transparency and decentralized attestation, this integration unlocks trust-minimized applications that will shape the future of Crypto x AI. With EigenLayer’s restaking infrastructure, Ungate is bringing autonomous, sovereign agents to life.

This is no longer a vision; it’s already happening. The demand for verifiable AI agents is growing exponentially. Successful projects are already leveraging TEE-powered AI agents to establish trust and drive adoption. The future of decentralized intelligence is here. Ready to deploy your own verifiable AI agents inside TEEs with decentralized verification?

Deploy an agent today: Raise a support ticket in Ungate's Discord.