Hero Network is the audit and verification layer for AI agents and physical AI. As autonomous agents and robots take on consequential work, the record of what they actually did is missing. Our Proof of Action primitive turns every material action an AI takes, an agent decision or a robot movement, into a tamper-evident, per-action record that any customer, insurer, auditor or regulator can verify independently, for a fraction of a cent, while the AI's rules stay sealed. Every record climbs a four-level trust ladder, from a signed log, to hardware-attested execution, to on-chain anchoring on Arbitrum, to zero-knowledge proofs. The protocol has no token and no admin keys, with roots on-chain. This opens a USD 265 billion market. Today, testing, inspection and certification firms such as SGS, Bureau Veritas, DNV, TÜV and BSI verify that a system meets safety and quality standards, then issue a certificate: a stamp valid at a single point in time that cannot cover how the system behaves once it is deployed. Yet the EU AI Act and the incoming EU Machinery Regulation now require in-service logging and human oversight for AI-enabled systems, which a one-time certificate cannot satisfy. Hero is the continuous, in-service evidence layer those firms resell, and the deployers they certify buy directly. We anchor the world's AI actions on Arbitrum.
their systems are safe, compliant and Hero is the audit and verification portal for AI agents and physical AI. Every autonomous system operates under a sealed mandate, its approved rules kept encrypted, and every action it takes becomes a tamper-evident receipt anchored on Arbitrum. Anyone, a customer, insurer, auditor or regulator, can verify what the system did and prove whether it stayed within its mandate, without the operator ever revealing its rules. We turn the $265B testing, inspection and certification industry from a once-a-year snapshot into continuous, per-action verification, for a fraction of a cent. A certificate is a snapshot; a fleet needs a film. No token, no admin keys, and verification is fractions if a cent.
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* Deployed the HeroProofAnchor contract on Arbitrum Sepolia; receipts verifiable on Arbiscan. * Built a live sealed-mandate fleet demo: three robots under encrypted mandates, a real-time %-to-spec meter, and a provable breach, with the mandate staying sealed (FHE via Fhenix, [confirm: live CoFHE vs labelled simulation]). * Shipped Hero Worker, our own AI agent that records community tasks and issues verifiable receipts. [N]+ builders across Rust School and Swarm Village are logging verified tasks through it, proving the agent use case on ourselves. * Measured the economics on real bytecode: ~$0.0017 per anchor, millionths of a cent batched, verification free. * Started market validation: 1 Letter of intent, outreach live to US and UK robotics companies (including Reach Robotics) and next to certifiers and insurers. Herő tech stack: Smart contracts (Arbitrum Sepolia) - HeroProofAnchor - Rust on Arbitrum Stylus (stylus-sdk 0.10.8, alloy-primitives, WASM via cargo-stylus). - ConfidentialAuthority — Solidity 0.8.25 + Fhenix CoFHE (@fhenixprotocol/cofhe-contracts): encrypted euint32 budget, homomorphic FHE.lte, branchless FHE.select. 0x28C695…, source-verified. - Composed via a Solidity interface (IHeroProofAnchor) - Rust ↔️ Solidity on one chain. Contract tooling / tests - Foundry (forge / cast / anvil) + forge-std for the Solidity contracts + reference anchor - @cofhe/foundry-plugin + @cofhe/mock-contracts (mock coprocessor) to test FHE in Foundry - cargo-stylus for the Rust deploy + activation - forge 21/21 · cargo 5/5 (Stylus TestVM) Off-chain / clients - TypeScript / Node, ethers v6 - cofhejs (encrypted client path - gated upstream) - keccak hash chain (ethers) for tamper-evident receipts - Google Apps Script Web App (append-only) for the community log Frontend - Next.js 15 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4 - ethers v6 (read-only reads + single-agent live path via MetaMask) - Fonts: Space Grotesk / JetBrains Mono / Inter (next/font) - Server relayer: /api/relay-anchor (route handler, server-held key, validated + per-IP rate-limited) Hosting / CI - Netlify (@netlify/plugin-nextjs SSR, Node 20), auto-deploy from GitHub → hero-arbitrum.netlify.app
Pre-seed, non-dilutive, and are pursuing ecosystem grants and research fellowships currently. Open to aligned strategic angels and ecosystem capital that helps us land design partners and certifier partnerships.
