DeFAI has a credibility problem.

The moment your AI agent thinks off-chain, DeFAI stops being verifiable because you’ve inserted a trust gap into an otherwise transparent on-chain workflow.

That gap?

A new shared dependency.

Every protocol that relies on that off-chain agent is forced to trust it, then pass that black box down the stack.

The fix is receipts: cryptographic evidence.

What do DeFAI protocols need to prove, end-to-end and transparently, so anyone can verify?

What data the agent saw.
What model and version it ran.
What constraints it was bound by.
What action it took.
What outcome occurred.

Open by default.
Verifiable by design.

Without that, autonomy is just an off-chain committee with nicer UX.

With that, autonomy becomes auditable behavior.

And “trustless” becomes a property you can verify - not a word you're forced to believe.