Resources — proof of conduct
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Writing on proof of conduct: privacy-preserving compliance, zero-knowledge proofs, and the infrastructure behind stablecoins, vaults, and autonomous finance.
7 min
How to Enforce One AI Agent Spending Mandate Across Payment Systems
How one spending mandate can govern covered agent payments across wallets and rails, and what counterparties can verify.
8 min
How to Verify Stablecoin Payment Compliance Across Institutional Handoffs
What receiving institutions can verify when stablecoin payments cross organizational boundaries, and which checks remain their responsibility.
9 min
How Can an Allocator Verify a Vault Curator’s Emergency Actions?
Map a vault curator’s emergency powers before funding, then verify the authorization, policy, inputs, and settlement behind each covered action.
11 min
How to Test AI Agent Payment Guardrails Before Launch
A prelaunch test plan for AI agent payment guardrails, covering budget races, retries, bypass attempts, and evidence a counterparty can verify.
8 min
AP2 vs. x402: What Each Verifies, and Where Payment Policy Enforcement Fits
A developer’s guide to what AP2 authorizes, what x402 handles, and when payments need independently verifiable policy enforcement.
8 min
How to Verify Multi-Party Approval for Tokenized Vault Withdrawals
How to enforce vault withdrawal approvals before funds move and verify the evidence afterward without exposing protected strategy inputs.
6 min
Stablecoin Reserve Attestations vs. Transaction-Level Compliance Evidence: What Can Each Prove?
What reserve attestations can establish about backing, what policy receipts can verify about covered payments, and where each claim ends.
11 min
How to Verify Cumulative Risk Limits for a DeFi Vault Across Multiple Trades
How allocators can check that covered vault trades stayed within approved risk limits across multiple trades, without seeing the curator’s positions.
10 min
Stablecoin Compliance Tools Compared: What Issuers Need Before and After Settlement
Compare screening, transaction controls, reserve attestation, and verifiable evidence to see which gaps each tool fills in a stablecoin issuer’s compliance stack.
11 min
zkML vs. Policy Proofs: What Financial-Agent Buyers Can Verify
A buyer’s guide to what zkML, signed verdicts, and policy proofs verify before a financial agent acts.
8 min
DeFi Vault Risk Tools Compared: Monitoring, Onchain Caps, and Verifiable Mandate Enforcement
How allocators can constrain covered curator actions after deposit and verify that agreed risk limits governed them.
11 min
How to Vet a DeFi Vault Curator Before Allocating Capital: A Due Diligence Checklist
Assess whether allocator-approved limits constrain a vault curator after deposit, and what evidence verifies covered actions.
12 min
Privacy-Preserving Borrower and Counterparty Risk Monitoring: A Practical Guide
How lenders can assess exposure, collateral, and covenant risk without full position disclosure, and where private policy checks leave gaps.
14 min
What Is a Verifiable Payment Receipt for an AI Agent?
It shows that an agent’s payment passed defined policy rules before it ran. Authorization and settlement still need their own evidence.
14 min
How Pre-Execution Guardrails Work for Autonomous Payment Agents
How autonomous payment controls verify authority, enforce policy, reserve budget, and bind evidence before value moves.
14 min
How Allocators Can Verify Onchain and Offchain Vault Hedges Without Position Disclosure
A practical diligence framework for verifying one mandate across onchain positions and offchain hedges while protecting sensitive portfolio data.
16 min
AI Agent Guardrails: A Control Stack for Agents That Can Act
How containment, pre-execution enforcement, and independent evidence secure high-privilege AI agents.
16 min
Crypto Wallet Screening and Pre-Execution Policy Enforcement for Automated Stablecoin Payments
How KYT risk signals become enforceable controls before stablecoin payments execute.
16 min
Reusable KYC Across Wallets and Payment Providers
A practical architecture for reusing verified identity while enforcing institution-specific KYC and AML requirements.
13 min
How to Add Spend Limits and Mandate Verification to x402 and AP2 Agent Payments
A developer guide to enforcing spend limits and verifying mandates before x402 and AP2 payments execute.
16 min
Crypto On-Ramp Fraud Controls: A Practical Implementation Guide
A layered framework for identity, payment risk, wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and policy enforcement before asset release
11 min
Know Your Agent Explained: Identity, Permission, and Fraud Risk Are Different Questions
KYA is not enough
11 min
Agentic Commerce 101: The Infrastructure Stack Behind AI Agents That Pay
Why proof of conduct is the missing layer.
- Agentic Commerce
- Payments
- Infrastructure
7 min
AI Agent Payment Mandates: Enforcing AML/KYC and Sanctions Compliance Before Execution
Explainer-led article on enforcing AML/KYC, sanctions, and mandate compliance for AI agents making payments
- AI Agents
- AML/KYC
- Payments
8 min
Best Compliance Engines for Autonomous Finance: Comparison Guide
A comparison/listicle article targeting "compliance engine" that maps the vendor landscape for autonomous finance compliance (stablecoin issuance, tokenized asset vaults, agentic payments).
6 min
Compliance Engine Comparison: Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Sardine, and ComplyAdvantage
more on compliance
8 min
DeFi Compliance After Unbundling: Enforcing Mandates Without Full Position Disclosure
Explainer-led article on enforcing AML/KYC, sanctions, and mandate compliance for AI agents making payments — anchored in the emerging agent payment protocol layer (e.g. AP2) and stablecoin settlement
- DeFi
- Compliance
- Regulation
8 min
Observability vs. Enforcement: Why Watching an AI Agent Isn't Governing It
logging and dashboards let a team reconstruct what an agent did, but reconstruction happens after the money has already moved.
10 min
Privacy-Preserving Compliance Proofs for Autonomous AI Agents
Inherence’s proof of conduct provides cryptographic evidence that an action passed defined policy checks before execution. A third party can verify the evidence without trusting the operator or…
- Compliance
- Zero-Knowledge
- AI Agents
11 min
The allocator's dilemma: transparency or opacity, never assurance
verify policy compliance without seeing the underlying transaction data.
- Allocators
- Privacy
- Assurance
10 min
The Real Cost of Periodic Stablecoin Compliance Audits (And What Replaces Them)
the real cost of that status quo beyond the audit invoice itself, covering internal compliance staff time spent pulling and reconciling transaction records
9 min
What Is the GENIUS Act? A Plain-English Guide to Stablecoin Compliance
What satisfying these rules actually costs today
12 min
What Replaces Proof of Reserves: 7 Approaches to Continuous Reserve Verification
the pre-execution, per-action verification layer, an approach distinct from both snapshot attestation and oracle price/balance feeds, useful for allocators and issuers
11 min
Who's Building Compliance Infrastructure for Autonomous Finance and AI Agent Payments: A Startup Landscape
crypto-native, pre-execution enforcement for autonomous financial transactions