Why Your AI Agent Needs Cryptographic Proof

AI agents are making decisions, calling APIs, executing workflows. But here's the problem: nobody can prove what
actually happened.

When an autonomous agent executes a transaction, there's no audit trail that can't be tampered with. Logs can be
edited. Timestamps can be faked. If something goes wrong — and it will — you're left arguing over whose logs are
correct.

What ArkForge Trust Layer Does

Trust Layer is a certifying proxy for AI agent actions. Your agent calls Trust Layer instead of calling your upstream
API directly — Trust Layer forwards the request and returns a cryptographically signed receipt of the exchange.

Every proof includes:

• Ed25519 signature — tamper-evident by design
• RFC 3161 timestamp — independent proof of when it happened
• Sigstore Rekor transparency log — public, append-only ledger

One API call. Three witnesses. Immutable record.

How It Works

curl -X POST https://arkforge.tech/trust/v1/proxy \
-H "X-Api-Key: mcp_free_xxxx..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"target": "https://api.example.com/transfer",
"payload": {"amount": 500, "to": "vendor-42"}}'

Trust Layer forwards the request to target, certifies the exchange, and returns a signed proof alongside the upstream
response. Your upstream API doesn't change. Your agent gets a receipt.

Why It Matters Now

The EU AI Act requires traceability for high-risk AI systems. Regulators are catching up. Clients are asking
questions. "Trust me" doesn't scale.

Cryptographic proof does.

Get Started

The free tier includes 500 proofs per month — enough to instrument your agent pipeline and see what auditable AI
operations look like in practice.

• Create your API key: https://arkforge.tech
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Your agents are already acting autonomously. It's time their actions were provable.