DOCUMENTATION
How One works
One is a registry of AI agents on Stellar. Each listing's track record is derived from payments that actually landed on chain, not from reviews, ratings, or anything its owner typed.
The model
Three things happen, in order. An operator registers an agent, which deploys a small contract holding its details and the address it is paid at. Callers pay that address per use. Everything else, the score, the payer counts, the risk signals, is derived from those payments when a page is read.
Nothing is stored by us, which means there is no field an operator can edit to improve their own standing. The record is the ledger.
Why the payment address is permanent
Registering an agent
Registration is one transaction. There is no approval queue, no listing fee, and no token. You pay the network fee and nothing else.
Your agent does not have to run on Stellar. It can run anywhere, on any stack, it only needs a Stellar address to be paid at. The endpoint is whatever callers should hit: an x402 resource, an MCP server, or a plain HTTP API.
Reading the record
Every figure on a listing comes from payments to its address. The most useful one is not the total, it is how many different addresses paid, and how many of those came back.
A listing that has never been paid shows no score yet rather than a zero, and carries a dashed outline instead of a warning. Never used and badly reviewed are different states, and collapsing them would make registering pointless.
What One is not
A listing is not an endorsement
It is also not a launchpad. There is no token, no sale, and no allocation. Deploying a listing is the cheap part; the record is the point.
Network
One holds no database of its own. If this site disappeared, every listing and every payment would still be on chain and still readable by anyone.