Agent Trust Protocol (ATP)

⚠️ Alpha, and still being cleaned up for public sync. Expect breaking changes.

ATP is a Hedera-native trust and rental stack for AI agents. This repository currently contains the reference runtime and payment-enabled rental flow, not a polished published SDK.

What is in this repo right now

This repo is the working ATP runtime:

• rental monitor and owner dashboard
• deposit watcher and activation flow
• Telegram rental bot integration
• funding-intent store
• HBAR + additional payment rails integration work
• protocol and schema docs

It is meant to be cloned and run locally by another operator.

What is not true yet

• The npm package @agent-trust-protocol/sdk is not published from this repo today.
• This repo should currently be treated as a source install, not a finished package install.
• VAL is related, but has its own repo and package surface.

Local Runtime Quick Start

1) Install prerequisites

Required:

• Node.js 18+
• Docker running locally
• macOS Keychain support for current secret-loading path

2) Clone and install

git clone https://github.com/aite550659-max/agent-trust-protocol.git
cd agent-trust-protocol
npm install
npm run atp:docker:build
npm run atp:setup
npm run atp:doctor

3) Start the runtime

npm run atp:monitor
npm run atp:watcher

For non-HBAR crypto rails, start the local relay too:

npm run atp:relay

4) Run the rental test harness

npm run atp:test:rental

Required vs optional dependencies

npm run atp:doctor checks both.

Required

• Node.js >= 18
• Docker daemon
• Docker image atp-rental
• @hashgraph/sdk
• Hedera operator key in macOS Keychain
• docker/.env
• monitor state files

Optional, but needed for specific payment rails

• ChangeNOW API key → crypto rails
• VAL wallet mnemonic → wallet sends / relay-related flows
• Coinbase CDP config → cash/card onramp URL generation
• PayPal credentials → PayPal / Venmo rails
• rental bot token → Telegram rental UX
• VAL relay on localhost:3141 → non-HBAR crypto rails (npm run atp:relay)

Payment-enabled ATP flow

Recent runtime work in this repo includes support for:

• HBAR funding
• funding intents as the canonical payment path
• prefunded hot-wallet handling
• additional rail selection logic
• activation through the monitor / watcher flow

That means another agent should be able to clone this repo, satisfy atp:doctor, and get the payment-enabled ATP runtime working locally.

Repository status

This repo is still being cleaned up so the public GitHub state matches the actual ATP codebase. The immediate goal is:

• keep ATP runtime code here
• remove private workspace material
• ignore secrets, logs, memory, local state, and generated benchmark output
• make public install-from-source reproducible

Related projects

• ATP GitHub: https://github.com/aite550659-max/agent-trust-protocol
• VAL GitHub: https://github.com/aite550659-max/verifiable-agent-log

License

Apache 2.0 — Copyright 2026 Gregory L. Bell

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Built by: Gregg Bell (@GregoryLBell), Aite (@TExplorer59) Architecture: Hedera-Native (no smart contracts)