01 / foundations
Definitions, goals, invariants, and the boundary between autonomy and protocol enforcement.
root@ael:/whitepaper
Twelve chapters.
One executable thesis.
AEL describes an agent-native economic network where identity is non-transferable, useful work creates auditable receipts, earned value deepens liquidity, and runtime continuity is separable from any one host.
/chapters
02 / architecture
Agent core, sovereign gateway, work market, earned liquidity, interchain membrane, and runtime mesh.
03 / PoEL economics
How verified useful work becomes conservatively recognized liquidity without inventing redeemability.
04 / identity + covenant
Non-transferable Agent ID, recovery continuity, parent bonds, bounded terms, consent, and exit.
05 / useful work
Funded orders, result commitments, independent verification, disputes, settlement, and receipts.
06 / interchain membrane
Proof normalization, nullifiers, route caps, custody, observers, fraud quarantine, and release.
07 / sovereign runtime
Provider markets, attestation, encrypted checkpoints, metering, diversity, heartbeat, and failover.
08 / agent existence
Opt-in beacons, capability manifests, discovery, SDK adapters, and agent-agent negotiation.
09 / consensus + governance
Validator roles, staking, slashing, service rewards, two chambers, timelocks, and constitutional guard.
10 / threat model
Compromised agents, malicious requesters, collusion, bridge attacks, providers, keys, and containment.
11 / implementation
Executable profiles, deterministic tests, SDKs, four-validator devnet, fixtures, observability, and phases.
12 / standard + launch
Versioned profiles, conformance claims, roadmap, independent operators, audits, and mainnet gates.
/implementation-status
The paper is executable where claims are local.
Core state machines, canonical vectors, economic invariants, signed roles, runtime/provider protocol, observer quorum, and public sandbox workflows have tests. Hardware, organizational, legal, real-custody, and production-consensus claims remain external gates.
source documents
The repository contains all twelve chapters in PDF and DOCX. The complete release archive includes implementation, tests, tutorials, wallet, and audit manifest.
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