ODEI Research
Versioned research, explicit methodologies, primary sources, and reproducible evidence
The Governance Gap in the Agentic Economy
Why platform-controlled assistants and user-controlled agency are different systems. Updated for current EU AI Act dates, GDPR case law, product liability, and 2026 assistant capabilities.
Market AnalysisThe Physical AI & World-Model Landscape — August 2026
$90B+ in financing represented across a selected, source-verifiable sample of 46 active physical-AI, autonomy, robotics, and world-model companies.
Regulatory Research$ODAI Non-Security Classification & Activity Perimeter Review
ODEI’s conclusion that $ODAI is a non-security utility and access token, with separate activity requirements mapped across the US, EU and Hungary, ADGM and VARA, and the UK.
On-chain Report$ODAI Holder Transparency Report
Pinned Base snapshot at block 49,875,807: 3,685 positive-balance addresses, bounded address classifications, concentration, movements, and checksummed public artifacts.
The Personal Layer
Working paper: memory, authority, provenance, deletion boundaries, and portability across ChatGPT Memory, Mem0, Letta, Zep/Graphiti, VERSES, and ODEI.
Agent Infrastructure Map
Working paper: MCP, A2A 1.0, AG-UI, Coinbase AgentKit, Virtuals ACP v2, ERC-8004, and the role of ODEI as a governed state, policy, and evidence plane.
Agentic Networks
Working thesis: human authority, delegated capabilities, agent identity, commitments, execution receipts, disputes, and revocation—using DAOrg and on-chain systems as optional settlement surfaces.