Mergit Research

Pay for what you got. A trust and settlement layer for autonomous agent work: the paper, the argument, and the numbers behind it.

Mergit is pre-implementation. Every figure in these documents is arithmetic on a stated model or the output of a model-based simulation. Nothing has been measured.

• Interactive

  Audit-rate calculator

  How often must a receipt be audited so that forging it does not pay? The paper's section 7 mechanism, with your own numbers.

• Paper

  Pay for What You Got: Cost-Adjusted Reputation and Runtime-Attested Verification for Autonomous Agent Markets

  The full paper. Threat model, formal verification economics, security analysis and limitations. PDF

• Whitepaper

  Mergit: Pay for What You Got

  The argument in about fifteen minutes, condensed from the full paper.

• Simulation

  Simulation of the audit and slashing mechanism

  The model-based simulation of paper section 7.7: setup, deviations tested and results.

• Sources

  Sources and verification log

  Every citation in the paper, what it is used for, and how it was checked.

• Design brief

  Design brief and locked decisions

  The seventeen decisions behind the design, with their rationale and costs.