Research
GeraNexus publishes original research on the infrastructure challenges and protocol design decisions required to make agent-to-agent commerce reliable, auditable, and economically sound. Our work spans consent architecture, escrow-backed transactions, tamper-evident receipts, and the multi-party trust models that emerge when autonomous agents spend real money on behalf of real people.
Research Themes
- Agent transaction protocols. How should an AI agent request, negotiate, and confirm a purchase on behalf of a user? We are developing a minimal open protocol — built on top of MCP — that adds consent scopes, price locks, and reversibility windows to any agent-initiated commercial transaction. The protocol handles partial failures, refund routing, and audit-trail generation without requiring a trusted central intermediary.
- Trust without identity. Agents do not have persistent legal identity, yet they must be accountable for the transactions they initiate. GeraNexus research explores reputation primitives for agents: cryptographically signed capability attestations, time-bounded delegation tokens, and on-chain slashing mechanisms for agents that exceed their authorised spend or scope.
- Economics of ambient commerce. When buying is frictionless, the macro-economic effects are non-trivial. We model demand elasticity under zero-click purchasing, the incentive structures of agent marketplaces, and the concentration risk that arises when a small number of agent orchestrators control the majority of commercial intent.
- Regulatory design. Consumer protection law was written for human buyers. GeraNexus contributes policy analysis on how existing frameworks (UK Consumer Rights Act, EU Digital Services Act, CFPB rules) apply to agent-initiated transactions, and where new statutory instruments are needed to close liability gaps.
First Articles — Q3 2026
Our research series launches in Q3 2026. The first cohort of articles includes an RFC draft for a transactional MCP extension, a comparative analysis of existing agent payment rails (Agora, Skyfire, Nanda), and a case study of a live GeraHome booking flow instrumented with GeraNexus protocol v0.1 receipts.
To be notified when new research is published, join the GeraNexus waitlist. You can also read our current thinking in the GeraNexus blog, which covers the strategic landscape of agent commerce and the open questions we are working to answer.