GasLiteAA proposes optimizing the ERC-4337 standard by offloading gas sponsorship logic to Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), significantly reducing on-chain gas costs while maintaining security an…

This paper analyzes the x402 payment protocol, revealing systemic vulnerabilities in state synchronization and signature design that allow attackers to exploit payment systems for resource leakage in…

This paper analyzes the x402 payment protocol, revealing critical synchronization and security flaws that allow attackers to exploit payment systems and force merchants to subsidize compute costs.

The paper introduces ClawCoin, a novel tokenized, compute-cost-indexed unit of account designed to solve the problem of non-transferable compute costs in decentralized AI agent economies.

The paper develops a unified, cross-layer security framework for autonomous LLM agents operating in agentic commerce, identifying key attack vectors and proposing a layered defense architecture.

The paper introduces AIP, a novel protocol using Invocation-Bound Capability Tokens (IBCTs) to provide verifiable identity and secure delegation across Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent…

The paper analyzes Ethereum builder transactions to show that builder centralization is an emergent property of the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) architecture, driven by specific order flow and ME…

APEX is a research system that adapts HTTP 402-style payment gating for autonomous agents, enabling programmatic spend governance using real-world fiat payment workflows like UPI.

The paper proves that standard account-based ledgers cannot non-custodially enforce asset disposition, and introduces a novel commitment-based ledger structure, the 'envelope,' that achieves this capa…

The paper proposes a compliance-aware architecture for agentic payments on stablecoin rails that embeds regulatory checks directly into the on-chain execution flow to ensure safe, low-friction transfe…

The paper proposes a federated formal verification architecture that treats verification as a polyglot proof system, successfully validating it on complex production subsystems like a Raft consensus m…

The paper systematizes the interaction between autonomous AI agents and blockchain platforms using a bidirectional trust framework, identifying significant gaps in current standards and proposing a ta…

The paper analyzes transaction fee mechanisms in modern blockchains that use parallel execution and contingency, proving an inherent trade-off between minimizing risks for users and maximizing revenue…

The paper introduces presidio-hardened-x402, an open-source middleware that intercepts x402 payment requests to detect and redact PII and enforce spending policies before on-chain settlement.

The paper introduces a secure, manifest-based framework that allows unprivileged processes to safely update and promote narrowly scoped privileged software components without requiring full administra…

The paper introduces the Unicity Execution Layer, a secure, modular component that enables trustless off-chain transactions while guaranteeing double-spending prevention and enhancing user privacy.

The paper introduces MolTrust, a production-deployed trust infrastructure built on W3C standards (VCs and DIDs) that provides a verifiable, multi-layered authorization framework for autonomous AI agen…

The paper designs an optimal mechanism for soliciting expensive computational tasks in adversarial blockchain environments, showing that the loss of optimality scales logarithmically with the cost of…

The paper analyzes the nascent DeFi investment agent market, finding that while token valuations are high, current deployments are heterogeneous, lack clear autonomous execution, and exhibit poor risk…

The paper empirically analyzes the nascent DeFi investment agent market, finding that while token valuations are high, current deployments lack robust autonomous execution and exhibit poor risk-adjust…