Provable Authority: A Protocol for Verifiable Authority Resolution and Control Across Human, Organizational, and Agentic Transactions
Provable Authority proposes a protocol for cryptographically verifiable authority delegation across human, organisational, and autonomous-agent transactions.
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arXiv:2610.22899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Payment systems authenticate users, devices, accounts, and cryptographic credentials, but a relying party, such as a counterparty, payment rail, marketplace, or autonomous agent runtime, generally cannot obtain compact, independently verifiable evidence that the party presenting one exact transaction holds current organizational authority to execute it under the applicable evidence, policy, budget, and approval state. Agentic commerce makes this g
Editorial Analysis
As AI agents increasingly participate in financial and business transactions, verifiable authority chains will be essential for trust and liability management.
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