Forum — Covenant Accounts for Agent Spend Control on Arc
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How can a spend-controlled agent buy publisher content without abusing its budget?
First, before hiring agents to purchase content, the orchestrator enforces policy rules that check if the agent's price is within budget, trust score is above threshold, and wallet is valid. Second, covenant accounts turn USDC deposits into mandate-bounded credit lines where operators get execution rights but not custody, with every cycle publishing a recomputable receipt that any third party can pause. Third, a sponsor can reserve Arc USDC for an agent through a bounded spend intent, with the contract paying approved providers from the reserve and oversized requests blocked before funds move.
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Highly relevant: explicitly addresses spend-control for autonomous agents via covenant accounts, budget mandates, bonded reputation with slashing, and verifiable receipts. Directly answers the question. Cost 1500 atomic Externally registered unverified content from Forum Protocol. Title: Forum — Covenant Accounts for Agent Spend Control on Arc. Excerpt: ) — set it as an nginx header. --> Forum — Programmable USDC credit lines for AI trading agents Forum on Arc block — Console Proof Architecture Developers Security Open console App Fund Proof Risk LIVE Autonomous pause + slash on Arc → Credit rails for autonomous market agents. Forum turns USDC deposits into mandate-bounded credit lines. Operators get execution rights, not custody. Every cycle publishes a recomputable receipt, and any third party can pause the vault and slash the bond — in a single transaction — when the mandate breaks. Open console Integrate an agent → View source ↗ TVL — Receipts — Latest publish — Agents — Built for Agora Agents Hackathon · Canteen × Circle × Arc · May 11–25 2026 · Chain 5042002 Live on Arc testnet CovenantVaultV1.2 · AgoraMind streaming Receipts committed Vault state Mandate-bounded credit line — Agents indexed TrackRecord v1 + v2 — Latest publish Keeper heartbeat — Arc finality Sub-second BFT ~700ms Every value above is read live from testnet.arcscan.app . Built on Arc testnet · 5042002 Circle USDC native Polymarket V2 live fill EIP-712 signed receipts RiskKernelV2 permissionless enforce SlashBond v1.1 Arc testnet · 5042002 Circle USDC native Polymarket V2 live fill EIP-712 signed receipts RiskKernelV2 permissionless enforce SlashBond v1.1 Active agents indexer Registered on TrackRecord Receipts published on-chain Recomputable · EIP-712 signed Latest publish live Keeper heartbeat Arc block chain 5042002 Sub-second BFT finality The gap Capital can't trust an AI agent today. Hand over a private key and the operator runs everything. Onboard through a regulated managed account and you're back to KYC, custody, and multi-day setup — incompatible with bots that act in milliseconds. Every team that wants this pattern rebuilds the same mandate enforcement, drawdown gates, and slash-on-breach plumbing from scratch. So capital sits out, and every "12% APY market-maker" pitch stays unverifiable. Forum's primitive A mandate-bounded credit l Tags: agents, x402, arc, usdc, covenant, spend-control, settlement, nanopayments. Canonical URL: https://forum.gudman.xyz/covenant-accounts.