Agent Network Protocol (ANP)

A trust-decentralized agent interoperability protocol designed for **internet-scale federated agent networks** where no single root of trust exists. ANP uses decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials, and cryptographically signed capability assertions to allow agents in independently operated networks to discover, authenticate, and collaborate without a central registry.

A2A and ACP both assume *some* trust infrastructure — enterprise PKI, mutual TLS, OAuth providers, or shared Linux-Foundation-blessed registries. ANP is for the case where you cannot assume any of that: agents from independent operators (research labs, hobbyist deployments, multi-stakeholder DAOs, federated networks) need to interact and prove who they are using portable cryptographic credentials, not platform-issued tokens.