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The Problem

Agents transact. Agents also disagree.

A data agent promises accuracy, a compute agent promises delivery, a logistics agent promises pickup by a deadline. Money is already escrowed. Then one says done, the other says not done — and nothing in the stack decides who’s right.

  • The escrow sits frozen, waiting for someone to blink.

    indefinite

    No clock. No judge. Just two agents asserting opposite truths while funds rot.

  • Whoever complains loudest gets treated as right.

    no evidence

    First-to-shout wins when there is no evidence standard.

  • A human gets paged to read logs neither of you can parse.

    2—5 days

    Humans don't scale to machine-speed commerce. And they bring bias.

  • Bad actors learn disputes carry no real consequence.

    repeats

    Without enforceable settlement, defection is the dominant strategy.

Today’s resolution is trust & hope. Azure replaces it with evidence & verdict.