Scoped Authorization Proofs Are Not Credentials
Scoped Authorization Proofs keep permission checks narrow by proving one action against one committed policy root instead of exposing an agent's capability graph.
May 8, 20264 min
Notes
Short notes on crypto x AI systems, market structure, and product constraints that matter in practice.
Compliance Resolvers Don't Expose Their Rulebooks
cross Circle xReserve, Safe Guards, Alchemy Modular Account, and Base Spend Permissions, the enforcement surface changes, but the audit problem survives.
Apr 6, 20264 min
Agentic Payments and the Authorization-Resolution Gap
Authorization is starting to standardize in agentic payments, but resolution stays fragmented across merchant policy, fraud checks, issuer approval, challenge flows, and settlement.
Mar 31, 20263 min
x402 Lives on a Money-Transmission Boundary
x402 looks thin at the protocol edge, but the facilitator role sits close to the point where signed authority becomes executable transfer, which is where money-transmission questions begin to matter.
Mar 31, 20263 min
Who Decides Whether a Mandate Clears?
A mandate does not dissolve trust. It relocates it across credential providers, registries, issuers, and challenge systems, each holding a different slice of the acceptance decision.
Mar 30, 20265 min