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Our projects advancing the open agentic web.
The Open Agentic Web needs to be intentionally architected to create democratized access to the Agentic Web. The Foundation for Agentic Networks collaborates with projects to design, understand, and celebrate this.
We welcome inbound projects that wish to collaborate with FAN and create public benefit.
Project NANDA
Project NANDA is architecting the foundational infrastructure for the Open Agentic Web. We are solving the core challenge of the next decade: How can billions of AI agents discover each other, verify capabilities, and coordinate tasks without creating bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities.
Launched April 2025, Project NANDA (Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture) originated at MIT and aims to dismantle the four critical choke points within this ecosystem's infrastructure by focusing on consensus-driven innovation: DNS, CA, Orchestration, Attestation. Project NANDA adoption, real-world applications, and education is the pioneering Project at the Foundation for Agentic Networks.
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Case Study: Economic Competitiveness
The agentic web’s architecture will shape who can compete and capture value. Closed systems offer tight integration but risk concentrating power in a few platforms. Open systems lower barriers so more businesses can build and compete. Federated systems connect independently run networks, enabling shared reach without giving one platform control.
We are studying the impact of these rapidly emerging federated systems on economic competition from an antitrust perspective, examining whether they reduce gatekeeper power and barriers to entry, or create new risks of exclusion and coordinated control.
Seamless Connect
Developer tools for cross-provider domain and agent enablement.
Utilizes official integrations with a growing number of DNS Providers and Registrars, starting with Cloudflare, Name.com, Digicert, and Datum.
Supports discreet, cross-provider domain operations, allowing apps and users to authorize one-time updates to their DNS records; register a domain; setup DNSSEC; agent bootstrapping, helping agents become discoverable across independent systems.
Services are built around IETF standards such as Domain Connect, by the standards maintainers themselves.