paperSeptember 2026Unreviewed

Agentic Settlement Protocol: An Application Profile for Refundable, Delayed-Fulfilment Agent Commerce on Stablecoin Rails

Behnam, Mohammadkhani, Atul Khekade, Ritesh Kakkad

Abstract

Autonomous agents can already pay per request: HTTP-native protocols such as x402 let an agent sign a stablecoin authorization and receive a resource in the same round trip. That model is atomic and final, which suits metered access and fails commerce: a purchase made on a person's behalf -- a service appointment, a physical order, a flight -- is large, frequently cancelled, and should not become the seller's money until delivery. We present the Agentic Settlement Protocol (ASP), an application

Cite

@misc{behnam2026agentic,
  title = {{Agentic Settlement Protocol: An Application Profile for Refundable, Delayed-Fulfilment Agent Commerce on Stablecoin Rails}},
  author = {Behnam and Mohammadkhani and Atul Khekade and Ritesh Kakkad},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  eprint = {2609.02208},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02208}
}