I needed a reputation system for AI Agents. Here is what I built instead of a Blockchain.

Every multi-agent system eventually hits the same wall. You have a pool of agents. Some are fast, some are reliable, some are neither. You need to decide which one gets the next task. And unless you have a way to track who has actually done good work, you are guessing. The obvious answer people reach for is blockchain. Put the reputation on-chain, make it tamper-proof, use tokens as a proxy for trust. I looked at this seriously before going a different direction. The problems are practical, not