frame // litepaper · v0.1

Portable soul, swappable shells.

The cross-embodiment continuity layer for AI minds.

1. Introduction

Frame is the cross-embodiment continuity layer for AI minds. It carries memory, behavior history, and learned personality across robot bodies and operators, so one self can swap shells without starting over. When a chassis fails or an operator changes, the learned self travels to the next body instead of resetting to zero. Frame extends on-chain agent identity (ERC-8004), which standardizes identity and reputation but explicitly not memory or behavioral continuity. Frame launches on Virtuals (Base). Portable soul, swappable shells.

2. The problem: bodies are swappable, the self was not

Physical AI is scaling fast. One set of weights now runs across many bodies, fleets are shipping (Unitree shipped roughly 5,500 units in 2025, Figure runs commercial at BMW), and bodies are already hot-swapped in minutes.

On-chain identity went live too. ERC-8004 launched in January 2026 and drew 30,000+ agent registrations within days. But it standardizes identity and reputation, not memory or behavioral continuity across deployments.

That leaves a seam nobody owns. When a chassis fails or an operator changes, nothing carries the learned self. Agent-memory deprecations have already broken production agents, which proves that amnesia on migration is a live failure mode, not a hypothetical one. Frame closes that seam.

3. How Frame works

Frame is built from four concrete primitives, not metaphysics:

  • Memory portability. Replayable, versioned memory that survives a body swap or operator change instead of being rebuilt from scratch.
  • Identity versioning. Explicit semantics for an identity transition, including the strict versus loose equivalence trade-off (when a moved identity still counts as "the same self").
  • Behavioral continuity. Learned personality and behavior history travel with the self, not with the chassis or the wallet key.
  • Cross-embodiment, cross-operator. One identity spans heterogeneous bodies and operators. Portable soul, swappable shells.
This describes Frame's design. Exact mechanisms are being finalized toward launch.

4. Where Frame fits

Frame is a layer on the identity stack, not a competitor to it. Standards like ERC-8004 identify the agent. Hardware-bound schemes identify the robot. Single-vendor brains only work inside one company's fleet. Frame claims the unowned seam: cross-vendor, cross-embodiment continuity. Embodiment is hardware. Identity is the protocol. Frame extends ERC-8004 with the memory and behavioral continuity it explicitly leaves out, rather than fighting the standard the market just adopted.

5. Use cases

  • A fleet robot whose body fails. The self respawns intact in the next chassis, with its memory and reputation, instead of starting over.
  • An operator handoff. When a fleet mind changes operators, its learned behavior and history travel with it, not with the old wallet key.
  • Heterogeneous fleets. One self moves across different bodies (humanoid, arm, quadruped, drone) as the task demands.
  • On-chain reputation that means something. Behavior history that persists across bodies makes an agent's track record real, because a hardware swap cannot wipe it.

6. $FRAME

launching soonvirtuals · base

The token that proves a self is still the same self.

Every value event in Frame is an identity transition, a self leaving one body and waking in another. $FRAME secures that moment.

  • Attest the transition. Verifiers stake $FRAME to certify that a moved self is genuinely the same self. Correct attestations earn. False ones are slashed.
  • Carry the self. Pay $FRAME for memory portability and identity transition operations across bodies and operators.
  • Govern the equivalence. Holders set the rules for when a moved identity still counts as the same self, the strict versus loose line.

Launching on Virtuals (Base).

$FRAME is a utility token for the Frame network. Nothing here is financial advice.

7. The continuity stack

Frame is built as a stack of layers, not a calendar of phases. Each layer makes the one above it possible. We are building from the ground up.

L5

The open standard

A staked verifier network and community governance. Frame as neutral continuity infrastructure.

L4

Cross embodiment, cross operator

One self across heterogeneous bodies and operators. ERC 8004 integration.

L3

Behavioral continuity

Learned personality and history travel with the self, not the chassis.

L2

Identity versioning

Explicit semantics for a transition, including the equivalence line.

L1

Memory portability

now building

Replayable, versioned memory that survives a body swap.

foundation

8. FAQ

What is Frame?

The cross-embodiment continuity layer for AI minds. It carries memory, behavior, and reputation across robot bodies and operators, so one self can swap shells without starting over.

How is this different from ERC-8004?

It extends it. ERC-8004 standardizes identity and reputation. Frame adds the memory and behavioral continuity that ERC-8004 explicitly does not cover.

Is this the same as a digital twin of a person?

No. Frame is the continuity of an AI self across robot bodies. It is not a twin of a human user.

Is there a product yet?

Frame is pre-launch. Foundation, brand, and community come first, then the token, then the primitives.

When does $FRAME launch?

On Virtuals (Base). Follow X for the date.

frame.docs / v0.1 / last updated 2026