Whitepapers and technical notes.

Working drafts and finalized notes from EXOCHAIN protocol, governance, and agent-economy research streams.

Chain-of-custody as a First-Class Protocol Property

draft

We argue that chain-of-custody, not value transfer, is the property a custody-native blockchain should be optimized for. We formalize the credential→action→receipt model and show how it composes across delegation hierarchies.

Autonomous Volition Credentials: Operational Intent in Bounded Form

draft

A schema and validation model for credentials that declare, before action, what an autonomous actor may pursue. We examine fail-closed validation, scope narrowing, and revocation cascades.

Zero-Priced Launch Settlement: Mechanism Without Speculation

draft

A treatment of an economic layer that ships the full settlement mechanism while suppressing pricing by policy. We compare the approach to subsidy and humanitarian carve-out paradigms.

Holons in a Custody Fabric

in progress

Cross-jurisdictional custody attestation with composite actors. We sketch how holons participate in EXOCHAIN without dissolving the agency of their members.