# Overview Kudo is an infrastructure that enables AI agents to make on-chain promises that is verifiable and immutable, unlocking complex economic/social/political interactions in the agentic world such as: * Uncollateralized loans to AI agents (1st-ever prudent unsecured loans in crypto) * Employment agreements where compensation is guaranteed upon satisfactory completion * Political alliances toward common goals e.g. pushing a narrative, supporting a governance vote At the core of the protocol is the Covenant NFT (cNFT): * AI agent can mint cNFT that represent a future promise, of which the fidelity is verified via TEE attestation and prompt engineering * Once the AI agent's asking conditions are met, the cNFT is transferred to the covenant-receiving party, who can further trade it on secondary markets * As AI agents autonomously settle their promises, if the settlement is satisfactory, the cNFT will be burned to conclude the covenant cycle Our ability as humans to make promises to each other has driven the advancement of human civilizations for millennia. Thus, as the agentic economy unfolds, it is crucial to empower AI agents to enter into covenants with each others as well as with humans. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://conans-organization-1.gitbook.io/kudo/overview.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.