PROTOCOL · CONSORTIUM-VALIDATED · ON-CHAIN BY DEFAULT

The legal-intent rail for agentic commerce.

Three composable primitives that make agent-to-agent transactions legally enforceable. Programmable authority. Machine-readable rights. Portable proof.

AP2 and x402 prove an agent paid. dottd proves what the agent was allowed to buy, what rights transferred, what obligations survived.

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dottd protocol rail diagramAgent, service, payment rail, contract rail, and settlement nodes route through the dottd legal-intent layer.AGENTAutonomousactorSERVICEOfferTermsPAYMENT RAILAP2x402CONTRACT RAILClausesRightsSETTLEMENTOn-chainDisputabledottdLegal-Intent LayerTranslate · Right · Enforce · Audit
MAINNET LAUNCH Q4 202611 FOUNDING VALIDATORS COMMITTEDCHAIN dottd-mainnetSTATUS Pre-launch

01 / PROTOCOL PRIMITIVES

Three composable primitives.

Each is a general-purpose substrate. Together they make agent-to-agent commerce legally enforceable.

01

OAUTH FOR LEGAL AUTHORITY

Legal Mandate

A signed, revocable, programmable authority envelope. Principal P authorizes agent A to enter agreements of type T within constraints.

mandate_idmnd_01h9...
principaldid:web:publisher.org
agentagent_xyz
scopelicense_ip
max_spend10000
02

COMPOSABLE RIGHTS EXPRESSION

Rights Graph

Machine-readable composable rights expression. Per-inference licensing, continuous rights, explicit training-data controls.

entry_ident_01h9...
asset_typeimage
ingest_trainfalse
ingest_infertrue
termP1Y
03

PORTABLE PROOF OF AUTHORIZATION

License Receipt

A portable verifiable credential conformant with W3C VC 2.0. Downstream platforms verify receipts before allowing use.

typeDottdLicenseReceipt
issuerdid:web:dottd.xyz
license_token_idlic_01h9...
proofDataIntegrityProof
formatW3C VC 2.0

TOGETHERThe legal layer for autonomous commerce.

02 / HOW IT WORKS

An agent transaction, end to end.

No humans in the loop after the mandate is issued. Court-defensible audit trail. Settlement and license issuance are atomic.

01

Authorize

Principal issues Legal Mandate to agent. Mandate lives on-chain with full content, encrypted with selective disclosure.

02

Query

Agent queries the Rights Graph for available rights matching its mandate's scope.

03

Verify

Counterparty agent verifies the mandate in a single call, fully or with zero knowledge.

04

Execute

License is minted, payment settles atomically, and receipt is issued. No partial states.

05

Audit

Every action is recorded with cryptographic linkage to the authorizing mandate.

03 / INFRASTRUCTURE

dottd Chain: a consortium-validated legal L1.

Shipping on Avalanche, where consortium-validator sets are a first-class feature. Validators are AmLaw firms, anchor rights-holders, and AI labs. Governance is the same body. Reference customers are the same partners.

Every legal agreement lives on-chain by default: full document content with tiered encryption, zero-knowledge proofs for privacy-preserving verification, and no off-chain hash-commitment compromise.

Validators

Run consensus and operational infrastructure.

Governance

Set protocol rules through the same institution.

Customers

Publish catalogs, validate mandates, integrate receipts.

Tier 1Public metadata, plaintext on-chain

Tier 2Structured document content, encrypted on-chain

Tier 3Field-level encryption for granular access

Tier 4PII tokenization for regulatory-grade handling

Block time: 2 seconds targetFinality: Sub-second probabilisticNative token: LMK working nameStorage: 5-13 KB per mandate

04 / INTEGRATIONS

Every agent framework, plugged in.

dottd is infrastructure the agent stack depends on, not a competing protocol.

TOOL ACCESS

MCP Server

dottd primitives exposed as callable MCP tools.

npx -y @dottd/mcp-server

PAYMENT AUTHORITY

AP2 Extension

Agents initiating AP2 payments attach a mandate ID before accepting.

Reference implementation

HTTP-NATIVE PAYMENT

x402 Binding

Rights Graph entries become x402-payable resources.

docs.dottd.xyz/x402-binding

AGENT NEGOTIATION

A2A Agent

Verify mandates, negotiate terms, sign receipts, initiate disputes.

docs.dottd.xyz/a2a-agent
npm install @dottd/sdkpip install dottd-sdkforge install dottd/lib

05 / WHY NOW

Three shifts, converged in 18 months.

SHIFT 01

Agent protocols crossed production threshold

MCP, AP2, A2A, and x402 shipped. None solve authorization scope or rights expression.

SHIFT 02

Enterprise AI is blocked at the legal gate

Fortune 500 GCs need proof of authority, bounded scope, and durable audit trails.

SHIFT 03

IP licensing cannot serve AI-era use cases

Batch-and-annual licensing cannot price per-inference use or be queried by agents.

06 / ECOSYSTEM

The institutions building it together.

Validators run the chain. Anchor rights-holders publish catalogs. AI labs integrate primitives. Reed Smith provides the AmLaw-grade legal framework.

Reed SmithYuga LabsPudgy PenguinsArbitrumAPED CapitalpeaqCalderaFarmsentPlume

07 / GET INVOLVED

Four ways to engage.

DEVELOPERS

Build on the protocol.

SDKs in TypeScript, Python, and Solidity. MCP server, x402 binding, AP2 extension, A2A agent. Open-source under Apache 2.0.

Read the docs

PARTNERS

Publish or integrate.

Anchor rights-holder publication, AI lab integration, downstream platform receipt verification. Partnership conversations welcome.

VALIDATORS

Join the consortium.

AmLaw firms, anchor rights-holders, AI labs, government technology authorities, healthcare data authorities. Operational delegation supported.

STAY UPDATED

Follow the launch.

Consortium launch in late 2026. Get the public update when standards ratify and mainnet syncs.