Hash-chained revenue: why your agent payments need provenance
Every x402 settlement you have ever seen was, until recently, opaque. The merchant told you what they earned and you either trusted them or did not. For a capital-management tool that is not a trust model, it is a trust crisis : drift and opacity are the two failure modes the ecosystem has not admitted. Drift happens silently. A rounding change in a fee, a replayed request, a transaction that…
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