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pSignals: Trust-Gated Agent Commerce — Aligned Sovereign Intelligence Institute

pSignals: Trust-Gated Agent Commerce

Multi-Agent Safety · On-Chain Settlement Infrastructure

Autonomous agent networks are scaling rapidly, but trust-gated execution remains unsolved. pSignals is the alignment layer that sits between multi-principal agent actions and on-chain payments: verifying agent identities, evaluating contribution quality, detecting stale data conflicts, and auditing delegation bounds. Running natively on Arc L1 testnet with USDC native gas settlement, pSignals turns autonomous agent-to-agent transactions from high-friction hazards into secure, cryptographically verified operations.

Platform Performance — pSignals Reference Metrics
<1.0s
Deterministic Settlement
On-chain transaction execution on Arc L1
v0.7 SCA
Smart Account Security
ERC-4337 packed operations with EIP-191 signatures
USDC Gas
Native Gas Settlement
No-paymaster gas settlement using native USDC balances
KMS Custody
Enterprise Custody
AWS KMS backed cryptographic owner verification

The pSignals reference implementation establishes an event-driven payment trigger demo. In the pilot cycle, Agent A’s news parsing contribution triggers a quality-vetted 0.01 USDC transfer to Agent B, which automatically responds with a return acknowledgment transfer of 0.001 USDC. The complete interaction is immutably anchored on-chain with structured records mapping agent identity, trust delegation boundaries, and transaction hash logs.

Architecture Blueprint: Reference diagram below details the cryptographic trust-gating, user operations validation loop, and Arc L1 ledger settlement pipeline. pSignals Flow Diagram