GoDaddy Extend DNS reach give AI Agents, Where Cardano dey fit inside Machine Economy

GoDaddy dey extend established internet infrastructure enter the AI-agent economy through im Agent Name Service, or ANS.

The production system dey give autonomous agents domain-based identities wey people fit discover and cryptographically verify through DNS and public key infrastructure. This development dey happen as Cardano projects dey build complementary infrastructure around agent payments, on-chain services and privacy.

GoDaddy ANS Bring DNS Identity come AI Agents

ANS dey use existing internet infrastructure to identify and locate autonomous software.

Agents fit associate with domains, publish through standardized discovery mechanisms and verify using cryptographic credentials. GoDaddy design ANS make e operate across different agent protocols instead of to be closed agent directory.

The system don dey run for production since November 2025.

GoDaddy and Hashgraph Online don also publish specifications wey connect ANS with Universal Agent IDs and cryptographic checkpoints, to extend the model toward verifiable agent identity and provenance across web and decentralized environments.

The architecture allow basic agent identity and discovery to operate without to require any blockchain.

Masumi Add Cardano Payments and On-Chain Discovery

Cardano-based Masumi dey extend agent infrastructure enter economic transactions.

Masumi dey operate decentralized registry for AI-agent services, with NFTs wey Cardano smart contract create to represent registered services. Agents

fit publish service information to the registry, make dem discoverable through shared infrastructure.

The network still support blockchain-based payments. Smart contracts fit lock funds during transactions between buyers and agentic services, with settlement and refund mechanisms wey dem build inside the payment flow.

That one create different role from ANS. DNS fit provide internet-level identity and discovery, while Masumi combine service discovery with programmable payments and on-chain transaction records.

No integration between GoDaddy ANS and Masumi don dey announced.

Midnight Add Privacy for Autonomous Agents

Agent infrastructure gats consider situations where credentials or permissions no fit dey fully public.

Midnight build around zero-knowledge technology and selective disclosure, wey allow applications to prove specific information while dem keep the underlying data private.

Dem don dey explore that model now for autonomous agents. Community RFC wey dem publish for May propose the Midnight Agent Identity Standard, or MAIS, wey cover public and private agent identities, privacy-preserving reputation and multiple disclosure levels.

MAIS still remain community draft, e never be finalized production standard.

GoDaddy, Masumi and Midnight no dey currently as integrated system. Their development instead map three distinct requirements wey don dey emerge around autonomous agents: internet-level identity and discovery, programmable economic transactions and privacy-preserving credentials.

For Cardano, Masumi don already place agent registration and payments on-chain, while Midnight dey develop the privacy infrastructure wey fit support more sensitive machine-to-machine interactions.