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Escrow Needs a Judge. Atomic Settlement Doesn't. Most Agent Stacks Are Buying the Wrong One.

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In June, Kustodia shipped something the agent-payments stack genuinely did not have, and their CEO described the gap better than anyone else has: "x402 solves the payment event, when an agent pays for a service call in milliseconds. But when an AI agent commits to a contract that takes hours or day…

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  1. 2026-08-26 06:07 · DEV Community — AI
    Escrow Needs a Judge. Atomic Settlement Doesn't. Most Agent Stacks Are Buying the Wrong One.

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