Jett Optics sits directly in the agent identity and payments layer. Its ERC-8004 compliant agent wallet gives AI agents a soulbound, cross-chain identity that can hold assets, sign transactions, and participate in DePIN operations autonomously, with x402 micropayments for API-level agent payments and LayerZero for cross-chain transfers. The JOE Agent, built with MCP and FastAPI, is an autonomous vault keeper, and the AARON Protocol provides the attestation backbone that binds a verified human to an agent's actions. For anyone building agents that need to prove a real human is behind them, or that need portable, non-transferable identity across Solana and Base, Jett Optics is offering a primitive worth watching. The gaze-auth angle is unusual: it is a proof-of-humanity mechanism that does not rely on iris scanning or hardware tokens, which matters as agents proliferate and the line between human and bot activity blurs.
Jett Optics is a 2024-founded company building authentication infrastructure around a single claim: the way your eyes move is a better key than anything static. Its core technology, Agentive Gaze Tensors (AGTs), classifies eye movements into three vector spaces on a 2-simplex — cognitive, emotional, and environmental — capturing not just where you look but how: velocity, acceleration, micro-corrections. Those trajectories feed a Markov chain state machine whose transition probabilities become cryptographic signatures. The company says the result is collision-resistant, mutation-resistant, and quantum-resistant, and that it runs in real time on mobile hardware via ARKit, MediaPipe, and OpenXR.
The privacy design is the interesting part. Gaze vectors are processed on-device; only opaque proof hashes leave the device for attestation. That is a meaningful architectural choice for a biometric system, and it is the kind of thing that separates a real product from a whitepaper.
The AARON Protocol (Asynchronous Audit RAG Optical Node) is the backbone. It takes gaze sessions and turns them into biometric proofs anchored to the Astro Knots registry on Solana, producing what Jett Optics calls Proof-of-Attention attestations. Each verified session confirms a real human was present, records a PoA attestation on the OPTX trust program, and distributes $OPTX rewards proportional to session quality. The AARON Router, the gaze-verification edge, is open source on GitHub.
The token stack is a three-part system: $OPTX for DePIN rewards and verification fees, $JTX for community vault governance and staking, and a PoA trust program on devnet. There is also an ERC-8004 compliant agent wallet that bridges Solana and Base, supporting x402 micropayments and LayerZero transfers — a soulbound identity for AI agents that can hold assets and sign transactions.
JETT Chat is an encrypted messaging surface at jtx.chat, built on BitChat, WebSocket, and ZeroMQ, pitched for founder and investor communications. The JOE Agent is an autonomous vault keeper built with FastAPI, MCP, and Python. Pricing runs freemium: a free tier with 20 signs, an $88.80/year Augment plan, and SPACWBY, a pay-once lifetime tier owned as an NFT.
The company frames itself against passwords, fingerprints, Face ID, and iris scans in a comparison table, claiming only optical spatial encryption is quantum-safe, spoof-resistant, and adaptive. The real competition is broader: Worldcoin's iris-based proof-of-humanity, passkey and WebAuthn providers, and any DePIN network competing for the same token-incentivized attention. Jett Optics' bet is that XR adoption makes eye tracking standard, and whoever owns the gaze-auth layer owns a piece of every spatial device.
The company is early and small, with a single founder handle visible on GitHub and a product surface that spans auth, messaging, agents, and tokens. That breadth is ambitious but also a risk: each piece competes in a crowded market. The open-source AARON Router and the on-device privacy model are the strongest signals that this is more than a token launch.
Gaze-based biometric authentication using Agentive Gaze Tensors, processed on-device with only opaque proof hashes leaving the device.
On-chain biometric verification protocol that turns gaze sessions into tamper-proof attestations anchored to the Astro Knots registry.
Encrypted messaging surface (jtx.chat) with gaze-based cryptographic authentication.
Autonomous agent (vault keeper) built with FastAPI, MCP, and Python that manages the Web4 vault.
Jett Optical Encryption is hiring.