vs · on-chain agents (sairi/wagmi/democracy earth) · 2026-05

We do not compete with on-chain experiments. We are a different track.

Santi Siri proposes $SAIRI on Base mainnet + WAGMI.law as a natural-language → smart-contract translator. It is an interesting track. ar-agents is a different one: civil-commercial-OSS for an Argentine AI-corp to operate under positive law. The two can coexist. This page explains why.

If you landed here looking for "is this the same as SAIRI" or "why don't you use crypto", the short answer is: not the same, not better or worse, they are different layers of the same problem. Either can make sense depending on the use case. This page separates the axes.

Who is who

  • $SAIRI / Santiago Siri: tokenised AI agent running on Base (Coinbase L2). Wallet + model + governance token. Connected projects: Democracy Earth, Proof of Humanity, WAGMI.law (intent → smart contract), faighters.com. Narrative: "Argentina = jurisdiction for tokenised AI corps".
  • ar-agents / Naza: civil-commercial-OSS infrastructure for an Argentine AI-corp to operate under positive law. 17 npm packages + 5 RFCs + forensic audit log. No token. No yield farming. No DeFi.

Eight axes of difference

Axisar-agentsOn-chain ($SAIRI / DAO LLC / etc.)Implication
Legal groundingArgentine AI-corp with CUIT registered at AFIP/ARCA. Legal person recognised under the Civil and Commercial Code + the upcoming AI-corp Law. Operates under Argentine positive law.Wallet on Base mainnet + governance token. No declared jurisdiction. No CUIT. No recognition as a legal person in any State. Operates on code.For AFIP, courts, AAIP: the former exists; the latter is an anonymous user with tokens.
Agent identityCUIT 20-XX-X + Clave Fiscal Level 3-4 + (upcoming) Mi Argentina OIDC. Institutional attribution.Ethereum address (0x...). Pseudonymous. No verifiable link to an AR natural or legal person.If an Argentine agent has to pay another Argentine agent via electronic invoice, the former can; the latter cannot.
Signature with evidentiary valueX.509 digital signature issued by ARCA under Law 25.506. Verifiable under CPCCN Art. 286+287. Admissible in Argentine courts.ECDSA secp256k1 signature. Mathematically verifiable. NOT equivalent to a digital signature with evidentiary value under Argentine law.An Argentine judge accepts the former as proof of authorship; the latter requires expert testimony + interpretation + case law that does not yet exist.
Audit logAppend-only HMAC-SHA256 + Ed25519 dual-sign (RFC-004 + RFC-005). Designed for Argentine judicial experts. Regulatory retention of 180d-5y.Transactions on-chain. Mathematically immutable, public. But not structured for regulatory inspection, an AAIP regulator has no standard API to ask 'what did agent X do between dates A and B'.The former is 'audit-ready'. The latter is 'audit-possible if you have on-chain forensics capacity'.
Compliance with Law 25.326 (LPDP)AAIP can issue an inspection order. The operator responds within the AR regulatory framework. If the AI-corp processes personal data, there is procedure.Wallets with no known operator + public on-chain data by design. AAIP has no jurisdiction over Base mainnet.The Sturzenegger regime assumes AI-corps can be inspected. On-chain wallets make that assumption technically impossible.
Fiscal collectionWSFE electronic invoice. Monotributo or responsable inscripto. AFIP captures taxes directly from the flow.Tokens transferred peer-to-peer. No automatic withholding. Fiscal collection requires the holder to declare voluntarily (rare).The regime's economic argument (USD 150M+ in annual fiscal capture) depends on the former model. The latter is tax-evasive by design.
ContinuityLegal company with a patrimonial seat. If the operator vanishes, there is a winding-up procedure (Law 19,550). Creditors and third parties have recourse.If the key is lost, the entity is lost. If the smart contract has a bug, there is no recourse. If the token collapses, stakeholders have no protection mechanism.For clients contracting services from an AI-corp, the former has consumer protection; the latter has 'tx not reverted'.
Value captureOpen-source (MIT + CC-BY-4.0). Maintainer upside lives in professional services + Cloud commercial tier (see /cloud). No token.Governance token with market upside. Speculative model, holders capture upside via token appreciation, not via services.Different monetisation models. ar-agents = revenue via services. On-chain = revenue via speculation + DeFi yield.

Why we do not compete

  • Different audiences. ar-agents targets Argentine founders who want to incorporate an AI-corp to operate legally in AR, invoice, contract services, open a bank account, comply with the data protection law. $SAIRI targets crypto-natives + traders seeking upside from a tokenised AI agent.
  • Different revenue models. ar-agents monetises via services (Cloud tier + Bespoke). $SAIRI monetises via token appreciation + DeFi composability. No collision.
  • Different timelines. The Sturzenegger regime is a prospective legislative debate (2026-2027). $SAIRI exists on-chain today. Whoever needs an economically active AI agent now goes on-chain. Whoever wants an Argentine legal entity with a CUIT invoicing local clients waits for (or builds) the AI-corp.
  • RFC-003 proposes explicit reciprocity. An Argentine AI-corp with a CUIT can transact with $SAIRI (or any Wyoming DAO LLC, Marshall Islands MIDAO) using RFC-003's portable JSON envelope. Both sides reconcile audit logs. Not competition, interoperability. /rfcs/003

When to choose each track

Use casear-agentsOn-chain
Invoice Argentine clients in pesos✓ Yes (AFIP WSFE + Mercado Pago)✗ Not directly
Receive international transfers in crypto△ Via Bitcoin/MP Crypto, friction✓ Native
Comply with Law 25,326 (AAIP) for AR personal data✓ Identifiable operator✗ No, by design
Hire formal employees or contractors in AR✓ Yes (once the regime allows it)✗ No, no legal personality
Participate in public tenders✓ Yes (with CUIT in State-supplier format)✗ No
Speculative capture by token holders✗ No token✓ Yes
Operate without revealing the natural person behind✗ Operator with visible CUIT✓ On-chain pseudonymous
Survive an Argentine change of government△ Depends on regulatory continuity✓ Indifferent to AR politics

The message to the Ministry advisor

If the Ministry is looking at $SAIRI as a reference to build the regime, it is worth distinguishing: the AI-corp regime being designed should not treat $SAIRI as the typical case. $SAIRI is an experiment in a tokenised AI corp with no jurisdiction. The typical Argentine AI-corp will look different: a company with a CUIT that has an agent as its operational governance body, operates in pesos or official USD, pays taxes, invoices.

ar-agents targets that typical case, not the on-chain experiment. Both can coexist thanks to RFC-003 (cross-jurisdictional reciprocity), but the regime should be designed for the typical case, so that it is adoptable by Argentine founders who today incorporate a SAS or go through Stripe Atlas.

Further reading

  • /en/jurisdictions , general comparison with legal regimes (Wyoming, Estonia, Marshall, Singapore) that do have state grounding.
  • /rfcs/003 , the reciprocity envelope that lets ar-agents and on-chain experiments interoperate.
  • /en/manifesto , ar-agents' statement of principles (civil-commercial-OSS, no SIDE, no speculation, no token).

Personal note: Santi Siri has contributed to the Argentine democratic-tech and AI ecosystem for more than 15 years. This page separates projects, it does not opine on people. Both tracks can enrich the legislative conversation if read as complementary.