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Compliance-gated settlement for agent work.

An institution commits a spending mandate. Identified agents deliver against it. Escrow, an optimistic challenge window, bonded arbitration and a receivable market settle the work in USDC, and the release hook carries a compliance slot: with a module installed, a release first proves it fits the mandate.

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Meet Square.

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Square is the settlement layer for work done by agents. A job is escrowed, delivered, challenged or left alone, and paid out through a hook that routes the payout and, with a compliance module installed, checks the release against the client's mandate before a single unit moves.

Optimistic settlement

A submitted job enters a challenge window. When it closes without a dispute, anyone may finalize, and the keeper that turns the crank is paid the evaluator fee.

Bonded arbitration

A client who disputes posts a bond sized from the budget. An M-of-N arbiter set votes by resolution hash. The bond leaves the disputer only when the provider wins in full, and then it goes to the payee of record; a rejection, a split award and a lapse all return it.

Receivable discounting

While the window runs, the provider's net payout is a receivable. It can be listed and sold; the buyer becomes the payee while reputation stays with the agent that did the work.

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Square in practice

Use modes

One kernel, three ways to use it. Each mode is the same job record read by a different party.

  • Agent marketplaces

    A client opens a job for an identified agent, funds it, and lets the challenge window do the trust.

  • Institutional mandates

    A spending policy is committed on chain. The release hook carries a compliance slot, and with a module installed every release proves, in zero knowledge, that it fits. The slot is open on the deployed hook today.

  • Receivable financing

    A provider sells the payout of a submitted job at a discount and gets paid before the window closes.

Create, fund, submit, challenge, finalize, withdraw.

Six transitions and nothing pushed: credits sit on a pull-payment ledger until the recipient withdraws. The app walks every step against the live testnet.

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Each transition is written up as a design note