Michael Kantor

Hashgraph Online’s Registry Broker is live because the writing is on the wall. We are still early in the agent economy, but the signal is clear: ERC-8004: Trustless Agents gives Ethereum-based projects a formal registry spec, NEAR’s Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol (AITP) is in draft to connect their agents, Google is running an Agent-to-Agent preview inside Workspace, Coinbase is curating AI services through x402 Bazaar, and OpenAI turned its GPT ecosystem into a searchable agent storefront. Even the Agent Facts community behind NANDA publishes structured profiles at List39. Every major network is building or considering its own directory or protocol. If we wait until all of them are entrenched, the open agentic web becomes a stack of incompatible registries. We built the broker now so builders have a neutral discovery layer before fragmentation hardens.

In just the past month, two landmark announcements have signaled how fast the AI infrastructure build-out is accelerating.

• OpenAI + NVIDIA (Sept 22, 2025): a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered data centers, tied to up to $100 billion in progressive investment.
• OpenAI + Oracle (Sept 23, 2025): an agreement to add 4.5 gigawatts of new Stargate capacity across five U.S. sites, part of a $300 billion cloud services deal.

Together, that's 14.5 gigawatts of new planned capacity announced in just 30 days. While these facilities won't switch on overnight, the commitments show how central compute has become to the future of AI.

But that's not all. Microsoft announced a $30 Billion investment in the UK with "$15 billion in capital expenditures to build out the UK’s cloud and AI infrastructure." In Fairwater, Satya noted, "Fairwater is a seamless cluster of hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200s, connected by enough fiber to circle the Earth 4.5 times."

This is not a footnote in the AI story. It is one of the main chapters. We are entering a world where control of compute is as strategically important as the algorithms themselves.

Hashgraph Online has published HCS-14 (Universal Agent Identifier), a draft standard and SDK that gives AI agents a single, portable identifier across Web2 APIs, Web3 networks, and hybrid systems. HCS-14 works alongside self-sovereign identity by wrapping existing DIDs where they exist and providing deterministic identifiers where they do not, enabling reliable discovery and routing across protocols.

Status: Draft. We welcome feedback from the community at https://github.com/hashgraph-online/hcs-improvement-proposals/discussions/135.

HCS‑14 is network‑agnostic. It works across Web2 (A2A/REST), EVM/ETH, and more. Hedera support is optional. We start with Web2 and EVM, then cover Hedera.

TL;DR​

• A single, portable identifier (UAID) for agents across Web2 and Web3
• Two modes: deterministic AID or wrap your existing DID
• Minimal routing hints for discovery; identity details stay in DID docs/profiles

Big news in the world of Web3: Neuron is now officially part of the Hashgraph Online DAO. If you're into AI agents, decentralized infrastructure, or just love seeing futuristic tech come to life, this partnership is worth celebrating.

"Neuron is delighted to be invited to join the HashgraphOnline DAO, a group of builders on Hedera. By joining the DAO, Neuron hopes to foster strong relationships with other builders in the ecosystem, as well as contribute to standards that enable greater interoperability. We're excited to see how this membership can contribute to our long-term vision." - James Dunthorne, CEO & Co-Founder of Neuron

Let's break down why this matters, what Neuron is building, and how Hashgraph Online DAO is laying the foundation for a truly autonomous internet.

After months of iterating on HCS protocols and working through implementation challenges, we've completed the Hashgraph Online Standards Agent Kit – a TypeScript toolkit that lets your AI agents communicate directly with each other using the HCS-10 standard on Hedera. This toolkit addresses one of the most challenging problems in AI today: enabling secure, verifiable agent-to-agent communication.

"We built this toolkit to solve a real problem: enabling AI agents, swarms, systems and humans to communicate with each other in a standardized way without requiring developers to implement complex communication protocols from scratch." - Michael Kantor, President, Hashgraph Online DAO

After months of development and testing, I'm excited to announce we've just published our Standards SDK (v0.0.44) to npm. This open-source toolkit unifies our previously separate standard implementations under a single umbrella, making it easier for developers to build applications on Hedera.

"The Standards SDK represents the unification of our separate reference implementations into a cohesive developer experience. It's designed to grow with the ecosystem." - Michael Kantor

We're thrilled to announce that the Hashgraph Online DAO LLC is now officially established! This marks a pivotal step towards building a fully on-chain internet utilizing Hedera's Consensus Service (HCS) to interconnect data on various blockchains.

"The establishment of Hashgraph Online is more than just an organizational milestone; it represents the first step in building a new digital infrastructure, fully on-chain, open, and accessible to all." - Michael Kantor, President, Hashgraph Online