Resources — proof of conduct
Did your AI dowhat it was told?
Writing on proof of conduct: privacy-preserving compliance, zero-knowledge proofs, and the infrastructure behind stablecoins, vaults, and autonomous finance.
9 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