Archetech Competitive Analysis – 2026-08-16 Refresh

Refresh timestamp: 2026-08-16 09:19 EDT
Scope: Live-site sweep of all tracked company/market-pressure vendors (positioning, blogs, pricing, docs), plus GitHub metadata refresh for the tracked ecosystem repos (Self, Pubky, Nostr, Urbit, Hedera Agent Kit). No protocol/product additions — agent-protocol projects stay on the Archon page.

What changed

  • Okta consolidated its agent-identity surface. The previously tracked secondary URL okta.com/resources/whitepaper-what-is-ai-agent-identity/ now returns 404; the primary tracked page okta.com/identity-101/what-is-ai-agent-identity/ is unchanged (200, “AI Agent Identity for Enterprise Security at Scale”). A newer hub is live at okta.com/ai/ — title “Okta Secures AI”, meta: “Secure your agentic enterprise with Okta. Access our comprehensive resource center and learn how to integrate AI agents into your identity security fabric.” auth0.com/ai also live: “Auth0 for AI Agents: Ship with Secure Authorization.”
  • Affinidi’s blog is still led by the 2026-07-24 Agent Gateway post (featured slot, third consecutive sweep). No new posts after 2026-07-24 observed on the listing; the visible agent-trust content stack is unchanged.
  • cheqd’s og:description is unchanged (“Build end-to-end credential ecosystems and trusted data markets with enterprise-ready trust and commercial models”); homepage still links both Vouched AI-agent posts. Current title: “Monetise Customer Credentials & Govern Trusted Data Ecosystems cheqd”.
  • MolTrust’s homepage meta extended (now leads with “The trust layer for the agent economy … Trust, by evidence.”); pricing unchanged. Its AAE Internet-Draft advanced to -01 on 2026-08-11 (details on the Archon refresh).
  • Ecosystem metadata refresh: nostr-protocol/nips 3059→3070★ (pushed 2026-08-15); selfxyz/self 1258→1259★ (pushed 2026-08-14); pubky/pkarr 441→443★ (pushed 2026-08-14); pubky/pubky-homeserver 84→85★ (pushed 2026-08-14); pubky/pkdns 191→192★; synonymdev/bitkit-core 5★ (pushed 2026-08-14); hedera-agent-kit-js 66★ (pushed 2026-08-11); urbit/urbit 3620→3621★ / urbit/vere 80→81★ (pushed 2026-08-13 / 2026-08-14).
  • KILT and Ceramic remain dark for a third consecutive sweep. www.kilt.io still fails to connect (curl status 000), kilt.io still 404; ceramic.network and www.3boxlabs.com still 404; primer.systems still x402 privacy payments.
  • All other tracked vendors (MATTR, SpruceID, Dock, Privado ID, Indicio, Soulverse, Microsoft Entra Agent ID, Trinsic, Incode, Prove, Self.xyz, Hedera, Synonym, Urbit.org) returned HTTP 200 with unchanged titles/positioning.
  • Updated the main report: competitive map (Okta row), profiles (Okta, cheqd, Affinidi, MolTrust, KILT, Ceramic), GitHub snapshots (Self, Hedera, Pubky, Nostr, Urbit), source links.

Evidence observed

Live site checks on 2026-08-16 (curl, desktop UA, -L):

Check Result
okta.com/identity-101/what-is-ai-agent-identity/ HTTP 200, title “AI Agent Identity for Enterprise Security at Scale | Okta”, meta: “Discover how AI agent identity secures autonomous AI systems with policy-based access, behavioral monitoring, and Zero Trust governance.”
okta.com/resources/whitepaper-what-is-ai-agent-identity/ HTTP 404 (was 200 on 2026-08-09)
okta.com/ai/ HTTP 200, title “Okta Secures AI | Okta”, meta: “Secure your agentic enterprise with Okta. Access our comprehensive resource center and learn how to integrate AI agents into your identity security fabric.”
auth0.com/ai HTTP 200, title “Auth0 for AI Agents: Ship with Secure Authorization | Auth0”
affinidi.com/blog Featured slot unchanged: “Agent Gateway: A New Era of Governed AI Agents Interactions” (datetime 2026-07-24); newest grid posts dated 2026-07-14, 2026-06-19, 2026-05-26 — no post newer than 2026-07-24 observed
cheqd.io og:description “Build end-to-end credential ecosystems and trusted data markets with enterprise-ready trust and commercial models” (unchanged since 2026-08-09)
cheqd.io homepage links still includes /blog/how-cheqd-and-vouched-are-building-trust-in-ai-agents/ and /blog/vouched-integrates-with-cheqd-to-bring-decentralised-identity-to-ai-agents/
moltrust.ch meta description “The trust layer for the agent economy. MolTrust seals what your AI agents did into proof anyone can re-run from the public record — mandate-adherence verdicts, recomputable evidence, and audit trails. Trust, by evidence.”
moltrust.ch/pricing.html HTTP 200; “$19/mo (2 agents), Scale $299/mo (75 agents)”, “$9/mo per additional agent”, “Lightning sat micropayments are on the roadmap (PhoenixD integration prepped, not yet settling)”
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/agent-id/ HTTP 200, title “Microsoft Entra Agent ID documentation”, meta unchanged
mattr.global HTTP 200, “TrustTech solutions - where high assurance meets convenience”
spruceid.com HTTP 200, “Digital Trust Infrastructure for Government”
www.dock.io HTTP 200, “Dock Labs - Create a Unified Identity Experience”
trinsic.id HTTP 200, “Trinsic: Accept the World’s Digital IDs Through One API”, meta: “The first identity acceptance network…”
self.xyz HTTP 200, “Self • Build for humans and AI agents”, meta: “…identity and agent infrastructure already accessible to billions of people across 180+ countries and trusted by companies like Google.”
www.privado.id / indicio.tech / www.soulverse.world / incode.com / prove.com / hedera.com All HTTP 200, titles unchanged
www.kilt.io curl status 000 (connection failure); kilt.io 404
ceramic.network / www.3boxlabs.com Both 404
primer.systems Live, title “Primer Systems - x402 and Privacy Architecture”
pubky.org HTTP 200, og:description “Key-based, self-regulating web that puts users in control.”
nostr.com / urbit.org / synonym.to HTTP 200, titles unchanged

GitHub REST API metadata, fetched 2026-08-16 (authenticated as morningstar-daemon via gh api):

Repo Stars (prev → now) Last pushed
selfxyz/self 1258 → 1259 2026-08-14
pubky/pkarr 441 → 443 2026-08-14
pubky/pubky-homeserver 84 → 85 2026-08-14
pubky/pkdns 191 → 192 2026-03-23
synonymdev/bitkit-core 5 → 5 2026-08-14
nostr-protocol/nips 3059 → 3070 2026-08-15
hashgraph/hedera-agent-kit-js 66 → 66 2026-08-11
hashgraph/did-method / did-sdk-java 28 / 36 2025-01-14 / 2024-06-01
urbit/urbit 3620 → 3621 2026-08-13
urbit/vere 80 → 81 2026-08-14

Interpretation

  • Okta’s consolidation into okta.com/ai (“Okta Secures AI”) is the clearest incumbent move this cycle. The whitepaper-style resource is gone; what remains is a product-shaped hub (“secure your agentic enterprise… integrate AI agents into your identity security fabric”) plus Auth0’s developer-facing “Auth0 for AI Agents.” The incumbent framing is now fully “agents inside the identity security fabric” — the opposite structural bet from portable sovereign identity, and the message Archetech’s cross-boundary story has to beat.
  • Affinidi’s agent narrative is holding but not advancing. Agent Gateway has led the blog for over three weeks with nothing newer behind it; cadence has paused since 2026-07-24. Still the most consistent company-level agent-trust narrator in the set.
  • cheqd’s pullback persists. og:description unchanged from the reverted credential-ecosystem copy; the agentic positioning stays content-led (Vouched posts still linked).
  • MolTrust keeps sharpening public artifacts (meta copy extension; AAE draft -01). It remains the sharpest centralized company-level foil.
  • KILT and Ceramic staying dark for a third consecutive sweep confirms both downgrades; they remain low-pressure historical references.
  • No new company-level entrants this cycle. The discovery energy is again all at the protocol/product layer (see the Archon 2026-08-16 refresh: Agent-Safe Pipeline at 469★ in three days), not the vendor layer.

Source artifacts