Archetech Competitive Analysis – 2026-09-13 Refresh

Refresh timestamp: 2026-09-13 09:06 EDT
Scope: Live-site sweep of all tracked company/market-pressure vendors (status + title/description), plus GitHub metadata refresh for the tracked ecosystem repos (Self, Pubky, Nostr, Urbit, Hedera Agent Kit, bitkit-core), plus cheqd OG-block re-verification and MolTrust pricing re-verification. No positioning changes detected this cycle: cheqd’s dual-OG-block state persists unchanged, and the dark-ecosystem trends (KILT, Ceramic/3Box) extended to a seventh consecutive sweep.

What changed

  • cheqd’s dual OG blocks persist unchanged. Re-verified 2026-09-13: block 1 still pairs “The Payment & Trust Infrastructure for Credentials” og:title with the credential-ecosystems og:description; block 2 still pairs the monetise-credentials og:title with the agentic og:description (“Decentralised Infrastructure for Credentials & AI Agents … trusted data payments”). Page <title> unchanged. Map row and profile updated; no new movement.
  • KILT dark for a seventh consecutive sweep. www.kilt.io failed to connect entirely (curl status 000) and kilt.io returned 404 on 2026-09-13, same as every sweep since 2026-08-02. Successor effort Primer Systems re-verified live (still “x402 and Privacy Architecture” — payments, not identity).
  • Ceramic / 3Box Labs dark for a seventh consecutive sweep. ceramic.network returned 404 and www.3boxlabs.com failed to connect entirely (curl status 000) on 2026-09-13. Public web presence effectively gone; remains a low-pressure historical reference.
  • MolTrust re-verified: homepage title/meta unchanged; API still v2.5 healthy; pricing re-confirmed via /pricing.html (HTTP 200) with /pricing still 301→/pricing/→403. AAE draft advanced to -02 (Datatracker dated 2026-09-06).
  • GitHub snapshots updated: Self 1258→1257★ (second consecutive small decline; pushed 2026-09-06); pkarr 454→455★ (pushed 2026-09-08); pubky-homeserver 87★ (pushed 2026-09-11); bitkit-core 5★ (pushed 2026-09-11); nostr-protocol/nips 3096→3097★ (pushed 2026-09-09); urbit/urbit 3617★ (pushed 2026-09-07), urbit/vere 81★ (pushed 2026-09-12); hedera-agent-kit-js 67★ (pushed 2026-09-11), did-sdk-java 36→37★; pkdns 192★ (unchanged, pushed 2026-03-23).
  • All other tracked vendor sites returned HTTP 200 with unchanged titles. Updated the main page (Last-updated header, refresh link, competitive map rows for cheqd/KILT/Ceramic, profile positioning lines, GitHub snapshots, source links).

Evidence observed

Vendor live-site sweep, all fetched 2026-09-13 (curl, browser UA):

Site HTTP status Title observed
auth0.com/ai 200 Auth0 for AI Agents: Ship with Secure Authorization
bitkit.to 200 Bitkit | Bitcoin & Lightning Wallet for Android & iOS
blocktank.to 200 Blocktank | Your gateway to the Lightning Network
cheqd.io 200 Monetise Customer Credentials & Govern Trusted Data Ecosystems (two OG blocks — unchanged)
incode.com 200 AI Identity Verification Software & KYC Platform
indicio.tech 200 A Verifiable Credentials Platform For Proving Everything
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/agent-id/ 200 Microsoft Entra Agent ID documentation
mattr.global 200 MATTR: Decentralised Identity & Verifiable Data Solutions
moltrust.ch 200 The Trust Layer for the Agent Economy — MolTrust
nostr.com 200 nostr - controlled by users, not platforms
primer.systems 200 Primer Systems - x402 and Privacy Architecture
pubky.org 200 Pubky Docs
self.xyz 200 Self • Build for humans and AI agents
spruceid.com 200 Digital Trust Infrastructure for Government
synonym.to 200 Home | Synonym.to
trinsic.id 200 Trinsic: Accept the World’s Digital IDs Through One API
urbit.org 200 Urbit — Leave the internet behind
www.3boxlabs.com 000 seventh consecutive dark sweep (connection failure)
www.affinidi.com 200 Affinidi: Building the Internet of Trust
www.didit.me 200 Didit, One API for identity and fraud
www.dock.io 200 Dock Labs - Create a Unified Identity Experience
www.kilt.io / kilt.io 000 / 404 seventh consecutive dark sweep
www.okta.com/ai/ 200 Okta Secures AI
www.privado.id 200 Home | Privado ID
www.prove.com 200 Prove - Most accurate digital identity verification platform
www.soulverse.world 200 Soulverse | The Operating System of Trust
ceramic.network 404 seventh consecutive dark sweep

GitHub REST API repo metadata, fetched 2026-09-13 (authenticated gh api):

Repo Stars (prev → now) Last pushed
selfxyz/self 1258 → 1257 2026-09-06
pubky/pkarr 454 → 455 2026-09-08
pubky/pkdns 192 → 192 2026-03-23
pubky/pubky-homeserver 87 → 87 2026-09-11
synonymdev/bitkit-core 5 → 5 2026-09-11
nostr-protocol/nips 3096 → 3097 2026-09-09
urbit/urbit 3617 → 3617 2026-09-07
urbit/vere 81 → 81 2026-09-12
hashgraph/did-sdk-java 36 → 37 2024-06-01
hashgraph/hedera-agent-kit-js 67 → 67 2026-09-11

cheqd OG blocks read directly from the live homepage on 2026-09-13 (unchanged from 2026-09-06):

  • Block 1: og:title “The Payment & Trust Infrastructure for Credentials”; og:description “Build end-to-end credential ecosystems and trusted data markets with enterprise-ready trust and commercial models”
  • Block 2: og:title “Monetise Customer Credentials & Govern Trusted Data Ecosystems”; og:description “Decentralised Infrastructure for Credentials & AI Agents Built for digital identity, verifiable credentials, agentic ecosystems, and trusted data payments …”

Interpretation

  • No vendor moved this cycle. Every tracked site returned the same status and title as 2026-09-06; cheqd’s layered OG state is now stable for two consecutive sweeps, which reads less like mid-migration churn and more like a deliberate (or forgotten) dual-track narrative — payment/trust infrastructure primary, AI-agent copy still shipped.
  • The dark-ecosystem pattern is structural. Seven consecutive sweeps with KILT unreachable/404 and Ceramic/3Box dark confirms the Web3-native SSI tier has effectively exited the public web. These rows are historical-pressure references, not live comps.
  • Self shed 1★ again (1258→1257) — a second consecutive trivial decline; noted for continuity, not signal.
  • The sovereign-web ecosystems keep shipping. pkarr +1★, homeserver and bitkit-core pushed this week, nips +1★. Synonym/Pubky and Nostr remain steady narrative/ecosystem pressure with no positioning change.
  • MolTrust’s AAE -02 is the only spec-track movement in either landscape this week — a company-level credibility asset (IETF authorship) that Archetech’s public materials currently don’t match.

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