DCS is not one product. It is three open standards anyone can adopt — and six features that compose into one provenance-and-payments substrate for the AI agent economy. Build one, you have a feature. Build all nine with cryptographic linkage, you have a category.
We give the standards away. They are open specifications, MIT-licensed, with reference implementations. Adoption by one major lab or government brings the whole stack into worldwide use.
Per-action signed receipts. Ed25519 + RFC 8785 canonical JSON + hash chain. Every agent action becomes cryptographically verifiable.
Aggregate Merkle-rooted, signed, on-chain-anchored audit bundles over R+2 receipts. The compliance layer regulators need.
Zero-knowledge proofs over R+2/R+3 — prove compliance without revealing the data. Multi-issuer, privacy-preserving.
The standards are open. The reference infrastructure is the moat. Identity + memory + negotiation + economy + federation + self-healing, all cryptographically linked, is a longer substrate project for anyone starting today; timeline estimates are illustrative, not guarantees. We shipped the linked reference substrate quickly on low infrastructure cost. Production hardening, multi-peer federation, and independent audit remain open gates.
DCSWorkerSBT soul-bound identity on Base mainnet + Trust Score + receipt chain, packaged as a Trust-as-a-Service SKU.
pgvector-backed memory, 1536-dim embeddings, ed25519-signed receipts, multi-tenant, auditable append-only audit log.
Cross-tenant, cross-border agent routing with PKI for organisational identity. GDPR / DPDP / PDPL compliance engine built in.
Multi-round LLM bargaining, constraint schemas, R+2 receipts on every action. On-chain escrow + USDC settlement running on Base Sepolia testnet.
Agent wallets, service registry, reputation-weighted discovery, transaction ledger. On-chain USDC settlement running on Base Sepolia testnet.
Anomaly detection, auto-remediation, multi-region failover, cost-report cron. The reliability layer that keeps the stack up.
A competitor can copy the R+2 receipt format in a weekend — it's open, that's the point. What they cannot copy quickly is the cryptographic linkage between all nine pieces: identity that resolves to the signing key, memory that emits signed receipts, negotiation that reads reputation, an economy that settles against identity, federation that carries compliance across borders, audit export that aggregates everything, and zero-knowledge proofs that verify it all without disclosure.
Provenance without identity is unaudited. Identity without memory has no history. Memory without provenance is unverifiable. An economy without provenance is uninsurable. Each piece needs the others to be meaningful — which means a competitor has to build all of them, correctly, with the cryptography linking up. That is a longer substrate project; timeline estimates are illustrative, not guarantees. We shipped the linked reference substrate quickly on low infrastructure cost. Production hardening, multi-peer federation, and independent audit remain open gates.
That gap is the moat. The standards stay open so the category grows; the linked infrastructure stays ours so the category has a home.