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Research

Open research on agentic payments, agent security, and payment infrastructure for AI agents. All research is open for contribution.

Research areas

Payment infrastructure for AI agents.

How AI agents should interact with payment infrastructure: policy engines, signing boundaries, approval workflows, and beyond.

01

Standards

Policy-aware agent interfaces

Standards-track work on how agents declare spend limits, approval hooks, and policy checkpoints before executing actions.

02

Signing

Local signing boundaries

Research into self-custodial boundary models where private keys are designed to stay on the host and signing is handled locally.

03

Authorization

Risk-aware tool-call authorization

Exploration of authorization surfaces that classify tool-call risk and adapt approval requirements as execution risk grows.

04

Execution

Agent execution safety

Investigations into how AI agents can safely execute multi-step payment workflows while maintaining policy compliance throughout.

Agent security

Approaches to agent security.

Each approach targets a different class of vulnerability in AI agent systems.

01

Static analysis

Pre-deployment skill auditing

Automated analysis of agent skills and tool definitions to detect gaps between declared behavior and actual implementation before deployment.

02

Dynamic testing

Adversarial robustness testing

Runtime testing that simulates adversarial inputs and context manipulation to discover logic vulnerabilities in multi-tool agent workflows.

03

Formal methods

Provable agent safety guarantees

Mathematical modeling of agent behavior to prove safety properties and verify that agents cannot reach unsafe states under any execution path.

In progress

Publications and standards.

Academic papers and technical standards will be published here as they become available. Stay tuned.

EIP

Ethereum Improvement Proposal

Standards-track proposal for policy-aware agent interfaces on Ethereum.

Paper

Research paper

Academic publication on AI agent security and agentic payment infrastructure.

Tutorial

Agentic payment best practices

Technical guides on payment integration patterns and production best practices for individuals and enterprises.

Workshop

Talks and workshops

Conference talks, technical workshops, and deep dives into agentic payment architecture.