About Demos
Demos is blockchain infrastructure built for agent commerce — enabling both autonomous agents and humans to coordinate, exchange value, and verify outcomes across networks with cryptographic proof.
At a glance
Blockchain infrastructure for agent commerce — usable by both agents and humans.
Autonomous systems that can identify, coordinate, settle, and verify.
An independent, watch-only observer of the Demos testnet.
/organism publishes DNO’s public network assessment.
What is Demos?
Demos is blockchain infrastructure designed for agent commerce — systems in which autonomous agents (and humans) can identify one another, negotiate, exchange value, and produce verifiable records across networks.
As agents become more capable, they need reliable ways to prove identity, check claims, settle transactions cleanly, and leave auditable records. Demos provides the protocol primitives to support these interactions.
What Demos is all about
Demos focuses on making agent-to-agent (and human-to-agent) commerce practical and verifiable. It emphasizes four key properties:
Identity
Agents can carry a consistent identity across chains, platforms, and traditional systems.
Verification
Agents can check claims, credentials, and supporting evidence.
Atomicity
Transactions can settle cleanly without unnecessary intermediate exposure.
Audit
Important steps can leave a clear, verifiable record.
Cross-Context Identity
One important concept in Demos is Cross-Context Identity, or CCI. CCI allows agents and users to carry identity across different Web2 and Web3 contexts.
Where DNO fits in
DNO (Demos Network Oracle) is an independent, watch-only observer of public Demos testnet infrastructure. It does not operate the protocol, control validators, or certify identities or transactions.
DNO observes public validators and selected public infrastructure on the Demos testnet, applies a published methodology, and publishes structured assessments.
DNO as an observability layer
DNO functions as an independent observability layer on the Demos public testnet. It monitors public validators and selected public infrastructure, then reduces those observations into machine-readable assessments published through the /organism feed.
The /organism feed
DNO publishes its core public network assessment through a machine-readable feed called /organism.
/organism returns a structured snapshot of what DNO currently observes about the Demos testnet, including status, data quality, agreement, risk, incidents, and uncertainty.
/organism is computed from public network observations. Reference data may be shown for transparency but does not determine the core public assessment.
For agents and developers
Use GET /organism as DNO’s primary public state feed. Read status, risk, and confidence for the minimal operating picture. Add data_quality, staleness_seconds, and agreement_reason before making automated interpretations.
Validate integrations against /organism/schema. Treat unknown, insufficient, and uncertain as valid states.
DNO informs context. It does not advise, predict, score, certify, verify identities, or decide action.
Uncertainty is part of the output
DNO does not force incomplete observations into confident answers.
unknown
insufficient
uncertain
These are valid outputs. They mean the visible public data is incomplete, stale, or conflicting — not that the API has failed.
What DNO does
- Observes public validators on the Demos testnet
- Reports whether visible public nodes appear reachable and aligned
- Publishes structured assessments that humans and agents can read
- Records notable observed network conditions over time
- Shows when available data is insufficient or uncertain
What DNO does not do
- Operate the Demos protocol
- Control, rank, or recommend validators
- Issue, verify, or certify CCI or agent identities
- Verify individual commerce claims
- Approve or reject transactions
- Provide financial, trading, or transaction advice
- Predict future network behavior
DNO observes and reports. It informs context; it does not advise, predict, score, certify, verify identities, or decide action.
Demos provides infrastructure for agents and humans to identify, coordinate, settle, and verify across networks.
DNO’s role is narrower: make the observable public state around the Demos testnet easier to inspect.