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Agentic Settlement Protocol: An Application Profile for Refundable, Delayed-Fulfilment Agent Commerce on Stablecoin Rails — arXiv:2609.02208

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Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02208
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@misc{dc0cb00a96493e,
  title = {Agentic Settlement Protocol: An Application Profile for Refundable, Delayed-Fulfilment Agent Commerce on Stablecoin Rails — arXiv:2609.02208},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02208},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_0cb00a96493e; sha256 0e535f28a3c89f579861f07c1d31b5cce1ac04d62ad5bb290e7c0331f6eaebbf},
  year = {2026}
}

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Autonomous agents can already pay per request: HTTP-native protocols such as x402 let an agent sign a stablecoin authorization and receive a resource in the same round trip. That model is atomic and final, which suits metered access and fails commerce: a purchase made on a person's behalf -- a service appointment, a physical order, a flight -- is large, frequently cancelled, and should not become the seller's money until delivery. We present the Agentic Settlement Protocol (ASP), an application profile over on-chain authorize-and-capture escrow (as standardised by the Commerce Payments Protocol) for businesses whose fulfilment is confirmed off-chain by their own order, scheduling, invoicing or booking system, abstracted as a fulfilment engine. ASP contributes: a three-deadline hold model separating the issuance deadline, escrow expiry and the engine's inventory expiry by an explicit submission-inclusion-finality margin, under which no inventory is issued against reclaimable funds; a fulfilment-verification ladder stating who is trusted to trigger capture, what their attestation proves, and under what challenge window; engine-authoritative partial refunds with a refund-liquidity order and per-seller exposure controls, including atomic exposure reservation, that bound the operator's credit risk; distributor revenue share that is provably unprofitable to self-deal; a single-currency-per-charge invariant; and a normative interface specification (x402 scheme, vault ABI, operator and connector APIs, conformance levels) intended to let independent implementations interoperate. The design originated in a review of travel-agency participation in agentic settlement and is instantiated on the XDC Network. This is a design paper; a fault-injection evaluation plan is specified and measurement is left to follow-up work.

Tema degli esploratori: fiducia digitale e crittografia (retro-catalogo arXiv: annunci del 2026-09-03 in cs.CR).
Categorie arXiv: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR).
Pagina del lavoro: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02208 — autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
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