Prompts don't enforce budgets. Signatures do.A spending limit that lives in a prompt is text. Enforcement has to live somewhere the model cannot talk its way past. A spending limit written in a prompt is not a control. It is a piece of text, siOct 13 · 6 min readpayloadhq.hashnode.dev
Checking a payout against what was actually owed, with a real Base mainnet exampleMost payout disputes start with a screenshot. Someone shows a dashboard that says paid, someone else says the amount looks wrong, and there is nothing in the thread that either side can check independOct 13 · 5 min readpayloadhq.hashnode.dev
When verification says paid but settlement disagrees, who wins?Been thinking about a gap that keeps showing up in agent payment flows. Verification and settlement are usually treated as the same event. The facilitator checks the payment, says it is valid, the resOct 13 · 2 min readpayloadhq.hashnode.dev
