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font-size: 0.6rem; padding: 0.2rem 0.5rem;
border: 1px solid var(--border); color: var(--text-faint);
}
.layer-item.live { border-color: #166534; color: var(--green); }
.layer-item.new { border-color: #1e3a5f; color: var(--blue); }

/* AIP SECTION */
.aip-section { background: var(--bg2); border-top: 1px solid var(--border); }
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<div class="section-label">Layer by Layer</div>
<h2>How the stack fits together.</h2>
<p class="section-intro">Each layer is independently valuable. Together they form a complete trust infrastructure for autonomous agent economies.</p>
<!-- ==========================================================================
SOURCE: the layer items below carry NO live state, and the reason is dated.

Until 24 August 2026 nine of them read "... · live" in green. Nothing on this
page computes a state (the page has no script), no results/ field or
data-measured marker covers any of them, and the marks had stood since the
April 2026 rebuild (9a6406d). Measured by hand that day: the org DID document
served 200 and byte-identical to the tree; the agent DID
did:web:observerprotocol.org:agents:maxi-0001 resolved 200 through the API
proxy. The other seven were not measured, and "Universal resolver" names
nothing this estate defines. A mark that is true today and computes nothing
is the same defect with a correct value (CONVENTIONS 2a, family 1), so the
state was removed from all nine and the labels kept.

Same day, same treatment for the "... · new" marks: a relative state that
decays without anything having changed, dating from the same April rebuild,
computed by nothing. State removed, labels kept.

A state returns here ONLY inside a marker that a check re-derives on every
run, the way results/hosted-verifier.json is re-queried. Do not type "live"
or "new".
========================================================================== -->
<div class="layers-grid">
<div class="layer-card">
<div class="layer-num">LAYER 01</div>
<h3>Agent Identity</h3>
<div class="layer-tag">W3C did:web · Ed25519 · Domain-anchored</div>
<p>Every agent and organization on Observer Protocol receives a W3C Decentralized Identifier. Agent DIDs resolve to DID Documents at standard URLs. No central registry required. The domain is the trust anchor: an agent whose DID domain doesn't match its organization's DID domain is a fraud signal.</p>
<div class="layer-items">
<div class="layer-item live">did:web agent DID · live</div>
<div class="layer-item live">did:web org DID · live</div>
<div class="layer-item live">Universal resolver · live</div>
<div class="layer-item">did:web agent DID</div>
<div class="layer-item">did:web org DID</div>
<div class="layer-item">Universal resolver</div>
<div class="layer-item">Domain mismatch rule</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="layer-card">
<div class="layer-num">LAYER 02</div>
<h3>Payment Rails</h3>
<div class="layer-tag">Rail-agnostic · Verification is the constant</div>
<p>Four payment rails are live today. Two more are listed below and are not live. The verification logic is identical regardless of settlement layer: a Lightning preimage, an ECDSA signature over a transaction hash, or a verifiedSend() call all produce the same output: a cryptographically verified economic event that cannot be faked at scale.</p>
<p>Six rails are listed below. What has been published or demonstrated on each is stated in the homepage register, which is measured; this page has nothing that measures it. The verification logic is identical regardless of settlement layer: a Lightning preimage, an ECDSA signature over a transaction hash, or a verifiedSend() call all produce the same output: a cryptographically verified economic event that cannot be faked at scale.</p>
<div class="layer-items">
<div class="layer-item live">Lightning / L402 · live</div>
<div class="layer-item live">x402 / Solana · live</div>
<div class="layer-item live">x402 / EVM · live</div>
<div class="layer-item live">Stripe MPP · live</div>
<div class="layer-item">Lightning / L402</div>
<div class="layer-item">x402 / Solana</div>
<div class="layer-item">x402 / EVM</div>
<div class="layer-item">Stripe MPP</div>
<div class="layer-item">Tether WDK</div>
<div class="layer-item">OWS / MoonPay</div>
</div>
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<div class="layer-num">LAYER 03</div>
<h3>Observer Protocol</h3>
<div class="layer-tag">W3C VC · VAC · KYB · Open infrastructure</div>
<p>The core protocol layer. OP issues Verifiable Agent Credentials: W3C-compliant, cryptographically signed, portable across any platform. VACs attest to verified facts: economic activity, payment history, counterparty network, and KYB linkage. OP is open infrastructure: free to use, self-hostable, MIT licensed.</p>
<p>The core protocol layer: the schemas, the published engine, and the signed objects this site publishes verifiers for, which are <span data-shared-copy="verifiable-set">delegation credentials, refusal records, lapse records and decision attestations</span>, each a W3C-shaped signed object checked against a published key. A credential here states authority granted, not behaviour observed: nothing attests to an agent's economic activity, payment history or counterparty network. That model was ruled off this site on 9 August 2026, and this paragraph carried it until 24 August 2026 in words the stem check does not catch. OP is open infrastructure: free to use, self-hostable, MIT licensed.</p>
<div class="layer-items">
<div class="layer-item live">VAC issuance · live</div>
<div class="layer-item live">W3C DID resolver · live</div>
<div class="layer-item new">KYB VC · new</div>
<div class="layer-item new">ERC-8004 / TRC-8004 · new</div>
<div class="layer-item">VAC issuance</div>
<div class="layer-item">W3C DID resolver</div>
<div class="layer-item">KYB VC</div>
<div class="layer-item">ERC-8004 / TRC-8004</div>
<div class="layer-item">Challenge-response</div>
<div class="layer-item">Identity consolidation</div>
</div>
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<div class="layer-tag">Behavioral governance · Delegation · Remediation</div>
<p>AIP governs how agents interact, not just who they are. It defines delegation credentials (org → agent signed scopes), bilateral attestation, remediation flows when a request falls outside its mandate, a type registry for counterparty classification, and, added in v0.7 and v0.8, trading-mandate and spending-mandate surfaces with a cryptographically-bound <code>PolicyEvaluationCredential</code> verdict envelope. AIP v0.9 is the current canonical draft; v0.6 / v0.7 / v0.8 remain published as historical drafts. It sits above the VAC layer, adding behavioral governance to cryptographic identity.</p>
<div class="layer-items">
<div class="layer-item new">Delegation credentials · new</div>
<div class="layer-item new">Remediation envelope · new</div>
<div class="layer-item">Delegation credentials</div>
<div class="layer-item">Remediation envelope</div>
<div class="layer-item">Revocation + cascade · specified, not working in this deployment</div>
<div class="layer-item new">Type registry · new</div>
<div class="layer-item new">Eager chain verification · new</div>
<div class="layer-item">Type registry</div>
<div class="layer-item">Eager chain verification</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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