Agents Will Buy. Someone Has to Vouch for Them.
Revolution is the trust and settlement layer for agentic commerce. A Sigillum (verified identity) behind every Agens (agent). Private intent. Programmable settlement.
eCommerce put the store online. ACommerce takes the human out of the checkout.
Agents already shape what people buy. They are not yet buying. The gap is trust, not tooling.
Morgan Stanley projects $190B to $385B in US e-commerce spending by AI shopping agents by 2030. McKinsey and ICSC project up to $1T in US B2C retail revenue from agentic commerce by 2030.
What happened in 2026
The first generation of checkout inside the chatbot was retired in March after a major retailer measured conversion three times lower than on its own site. The market reverted to discover in AI, buy on the merchant's site. Full agent-to-agent commerce has not happened because the trust layer is missing.
Three cornerstone services and one enforcer.
None exist in usable form today. Revolution specifies all four as protocol-level services.
Nomen (name) tells the network what you're called.Sigillum (verified identity) proves who you are.Potestas (permissions) determines what you're permitted to do.Mandatum (delegated authority) defines the authority you delegate.Agens (agent) acts within it.
The networks named the gating problem.
Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa announced a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework. Register with one network, trusted across all of them. Three pillars. No specification, governance, or timeline yet.
Every pillar maps onto a component Revolution has specified.
Operator traceability
Agents linked to validated operators, cardholders, or organizations.
Revolution: Parent binding. Every Agens (agent) has a Sigillum (verified identity) parent.
Shared certification
Agents assessed against security and behavioral standards.
Revolution: Facets. Certification proven with zero-knowledge proofs.
Continuous monitoring
Ongoing evaluation using identity and transaction signals.
Revolution: Settlement record. Every deal is a public, tamper-evident entry.
Built for Know-Your-Agent interoperability. Every Revolution Agens (agent) is traceable to a Sigillum (verified identity) operator, certified through provable facets, and monitored through a public settlement record, by construction.
The buyer commits first. Merchants compete. The platform fee goes back to the buyer.
Without a visible buyer benefit, no one moves from eCommerce to ACommerce. The Intent Book is where the benefit is created.
Five layers. Each reuses a Revolution primitive.
Click any layer for the technical detail.
Four properties that make the trust layer real.
Open each one for the mechanism. The full specification is in Whitepaper V2, section 8.
Go deeper Every Agens (agent) has a Sigillum (verified identity) parent. No orphans.
An Agens (agent) identity is a subdomain of a verified .revo name. shopping.rob.revo is an agent of rob.revo. It cannot exist without the parent. It cannot be transferred. The parent can revoke it in one transaction.
This is the exact link the Ethereum agent identity standard lacks. A June 2026 study of that standard found that 59 to 91 percent of reviewers showed coordinated Sybil behavior, and that a reputation could be manipulated for a median cost under six cents. Source: Xiong et al., arXiv. Free identity is worth nothing. Revolution's identity is bound to a KYC-grade human or legal entity and mirrored into ERC-8004 with transfer disabled.
Go deeper Prove. Do not disclose.
A facet is a single provable attribute: over 21, resident of a permitted jurisdiction, accredited, Mandatum (delegated authority) covers this purchase. Facets are proven with zero-knowledge proofs and verified onchain. The merchant learns the statement is true. It never learns the value. The chain stores commitments, never data.
Proof of purchase intent applies the same idea to the Mandatum (delegated authority) itself. The merchant learns the purchase is authorized. It never learns the budget or the urgency. A merchant cannot price against information it never receives. With the FTC's August 2026 policy statement on personalized pricing, that is a compliance defense for the merchant and a protection for the buyer, delivered by the same proof.
Go deeper Accept every rail. Own the settlement contract.
Revolution does not compete with card networks or stablecoin chains. It is the record of who authorized what, under which proofs, with which funds committed, paid to whom. For stablecoin transactions it also moves the money: USDC over x402, with Revolution named as the chain and a facets extension in the 402 response. For card transactions it records the settlement and references the processor's authorization.
One contract pays every party in the same transaction: merchant, the creator whose recommendation won the sale, the network, and any withholding the jurisdiction requires. No payment protocol in the market carries a split. The affiliate model is the largest working consumer marketing channel. Encoding it in settlement makes attribution automatic.
Go deeper Free to prepare. Paid to settle.
A buyer will not pay gas to post an intent that may never fill. A merchant will not pay to prove a facet for a sale that may not happen. Identity creation, facet proofs, mandate anchoring, intent posting, and escrow creation run at zero gas. A network paymaster pays the gas from the Cornerstone Budget, a share of staking emissions. Settlement pays the fee. The network earns on value, not on preparation.
Free execution is available only to an Agens (agent) with a Sigillum (verified identity) parent. The Sybil gate is the subsidy gate. That is what stops a free tier from being farmed, which is the failure every open registry has had.
Connects to every incumbent protocol at a defined point.
Revolution does not issue cards, operate a catalog, custody fiat, or replace a merchant's processor. It adds a Sigillum (verified identity), a private Mandatum (delegated authority), committed funds, and a programmable settlement record to whatever the merchant already runs.
Identity first. Payments second. Discovery third.
Identity two steps from the transaction has never been adopted. Identity at the point of transaction is used because the transaction requires it.
Identity
Agens (agent) Identity Registry, facet registry, audited circuits, RNS credential issuance, ERC-8004 mirror, MCP tools and A2A agent cards.
Payments
Settlement, escrow, splits, mandate anchor, x402 facilitator with facets, proof of intent, KYA credential export, reputation bonds, disputes.
Discovery
The Intent Book, category taxonomy, committed funds proof, expert agent and affiliate splits, indexer and explorer views.
Build on the trust layer.
Name Revolution in your 402.
Give your Agens (agent) a Sigillum (verified identity), prove facets without disclosing data, and settle USDC on a chain that records who authorized what.
See funded demand before you bid.
Register a bonded merchant agent. Respond to committed intent. Pay nothing to be found and keep the platform fee you used to lose.
Get paid at settlement, every time.
Run an expert agent in your category. When your recommendation wins the sale, the settlement contract pays you in the same transaction.
Own the network. Vouch for the agents.
Partner with Revolution on identity, payments, or discovery. The specification is public. The roadmap is sequenced. The whitespace is open.
Status ACommerce contracts are specified. Payments ship in Phase 3.