{ "generated": "2026-10-07", "month": "October 2026", "count": 100, "note": "Illustrative ranking of the opportunity catalog; not a forecast or valuation.", "products": [ { "rank": 1, "slug": "p1", "name": "Meta-Verification Engine (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 260000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_meta_verification.py", "summary": "CAIN Meta-Verification Engine (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: \"Verify the Verifier\" \u2014 Root-of-Trust Dependency Graph and Self-Auditing. Canonical Invariant: CAIN MUST NOT ONLY TRUST ITS VERIFIERS; CAIN MUST VERIFY WHAT ITS VERIFIERS TRUST. EVERY SECURITY MECHANISM MUST EXPLICITLY DECLARE ITS TRUST ASSUMPTIONS, ITS FAULT MODES, AND ITS DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH FALLBACKS. Core Verifiers Audited: 1.", "description": "CAIN Meta-Verification Engine (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: \"Verify the Verifier\" \u2014 Root-of-Trust Dependency Graph and Self-Auditing. Canonical Invariant: CAIN MUST NOT ONLY TRUST ITS VERIFIERS; CAIN MUST VERIFY WHAT ITS VERIFIERS TRUST. EVERY SECURITY MECHANISM MUST EXPLICITLY DECLARE ITS TRUST ASSUMPTIONS, ITS FAULT MODES, AND ITS DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH FALLBACKS. Core Verifiers Audited: 1. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 2, "slug": "p2", "name": "Conformance Protocol 4.0", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 260000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_conformance_protocol_v4.py", "summary": "CAIN Conformance Protocol 4.0 (Phase 42) Strategic Role: Standardized Protocol Conformance for \"CAIN-Compatible Autonomous Trust Operating Substrates\". Canonical Invariant: ANY IMPLEMENTATION CLAIMING \"CAIN TRUST OPERATING SUBSTRATE 4.0 COMPLIANCE\" MUST PASS ALL 14 MATURITY DOMAINS PROGRAMMATICALLY AND RECEIVE A CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED CONFORMANCE CERTIFICATE. FAULT IN ANY CRITICAL INVARIANT FAILS CONFORMANCE COMPLETELY (FAIL-CLOSED). The 14 Canonical Conformance Domains: 1.", "description": "CAIN Conformance Protocol 4.0 (Phase 42) Strategic Role: Standardized Protocol Conformance for \"CAIN-Compatible Autonomous Trust Operating Substrates\". Canonical Invariant: ANY IMPLEMENTATION CLAIMING \"CAIN TRUST OPERATING SUBSTRATE 4.0 COMPLIANCE\" MUST PASS ALL 14 MATURITY DOMAINS PROGRAMMATICALLY AND RECEIVE A CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED CONFORMANCE CERTIFICATE. FAULT IN ANY CRITICAL INVARIANT FAILS CONFORMANCE COMPLETELY (FAIL-CLOSED). The 14 Canonical Conformance Domains: 1. It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 3, "slug": "p3", "name": "Conformance Protocol & Specification (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 259000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_conformance_protocol.py", "summary": "CAIN Conformance Protocol & Specification (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Standardized Protocol Conformance for \"CAIN-Compatible Trust Runtimes\". Canonical Invariant: ANY IMPLEMENTATION CLAIMING \"CAIN-COMPLIANCE\" MUST PASS THIS PROTOCOL WITHOUT EXCEPTION. FAULT IN ANY CRITICAL INVARIANT FAILS CONFORMANCE. The 11 Canonical Conformance Domains: 1.", "description": "CAIN Conformance Protocol & Specification (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Standardized Protocol Conformance for \"CAIN-Compatible Trust Runtimes\". Canonical Invariant: ANY IMPLEMENTATION CLAIMING \"CAIN-COMPLIANCE\" MUST PASS THIS PROTOCOL WITHOUT EXCEPTION. FAULT IN ANY CRITICAL INVARIANT FAILS CONFORMANCE. The 11 Canonical Conformance Domains: 1. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 4, "slug": "p4", "name": "Trust Fabric - Epistemic Byzantine Swarm Defense & OWASP ASI Invariant Engine (Pillar 3)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 259000, "source": "cain/cain_epistemic_swarm_defense.py", "summary": "CAIN Trust Fabric - Epistemic Byzantine Swarm Defense & OWASP ASI Invariant Engine (Pillar 3) Pillar 3: Epistemic Byzantine Swarm Defense (OWASP ASI01\u2013ASI10) Formally codifies the 2026 OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications into an active, machine-checkable invariant evaluation engine combined with 4-node Epistemic PBFT consensus and real-time anti-equivocation verification. OWASP Agentic Security Invariants Enforced: - ASI01: Agent Goal Hijack Defense (semantic intent deviation & forbidden drift detection)", "description": "CAIN Trust Fabric - Epistemic Byzantine Swarm Defense & OWASP ASI Invariant Engine (Pillar 3) Pillar 3: Epistemic Byzantine Swarm Defense (OWASP ASI01\u2013ASI10) Formally codifies the 2026 OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications into an active, machine-checkable invariant evaluation engine combined with 4-node Epistemic PBFT consensus and real-time anti-equivocation verification. OWASP Agentic Security Invariants Enforced: - ASI01: Agent Goal Hijack Defense (semantic intent deviation & forbidden drift detection) It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 5, "slug": "p5", "name": "Multidimensional Trust Vector Engine (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 258000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_trust_vector.py", "summary": "CAIN Multidimensional Trust Vector Engine (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: First-class 14-Dimensional Vector Representation of Trust. Canonical Invariant: TRUST IS A VECTOR, NOT A SCALAR NUMBER. HIGH BEHAVIORAL RELIABILITY CANNOT COMPENSATE FOR INVALID AUTHORITY, INVALID IDENTITY, TAMPERED EVIDENCE, EXPIRED CAPABILITY, OR POLICY PROHIBITION. The 14 Canonical Trust Dimensions: 1.", "description": "CAIN Multidimensional Trust Vector Engine (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: First-class 14-Dimensional Vector Representation of Trust. Canonical Invariant: TRUST IS A VECTOR, NOT A SCALAR NUMBER. HIGH BEHAVIORAL RELIABILITY CANNOT COMPENSATE FOR INVALID AUTHORITY, INVALID IDENTITY, TAMPERED EVIDENCE, EXPIRED CAPABILITY, OR POLICY PROHIBITION. The 14 Canonical Trust Dimensions: 1. It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 6, "slug": "p6", "name": "Trust Runtime Kernel (AI Infrastructure Validated Trust Runtime Substrate)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 258000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_trust_kernel.py", "summary": "CAIN Trust Runtime Kernel (AI Infrastructure Validated Trust Runtime Substrate) Strategic Role: Canonical Trust Runtime Kernel for Autonomous Systems Canonical Architecture: Moats 1-7 Unified Execution Substrate Version: 2.0.0-kernel THE CANONICAL EXECUTION INVARIANT: THE AGENT PROPOSES. CAIN DECIDES. MCPGATE ENFORCES. THE SYSTEM EXECUTES.", "description": "CAIN Trust Runtime Kernel (AI Infrastructure Validated Trust Runtime Substrate) Strategic Role: Canonical Trust Runtime Kernel for Autonomous Systems Canonical Architecture: Moats 1-7 Unified Execution Substrate Version: 2.0.0-kernel THE CANONICAL EXECUTION INVARIANT: THE AGENT PROPOSES. CAIN DECIDES. MCPGATE ENFORCES. THE SYSTEM EXECUTES. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 7, "slug": "p7", "name": "Evolution 28: Portable Machine Agency & Execution Identity Fabric", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 257000, "source": "cain45/l5/identity_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 28: Portable Machine Agency & Execution Identity Fabric. E28 is the portable identity layer under E25 (agency), E26 (trust) and E27 (control plane). It does not add a second authorization engine: every consequential action still goes E25 `authorize` -> E8 `ActionCommitBoundary`. What E28 adds is the identity that travels and the proof that authority did not travel with it.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 28: Portable Machine Agency & Execution Identity Fabric. E28 is the portable identity layer under E25 (agency), E26 (trust) and E27 (control plane). It does not add a second authorization engine: every consequential action still goes E25 `authorize` -> E8 `ActionCommitBoundary`. What E28 adds is the identity that travels and the proof that authority did not travel with it. It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 8, "slug": "p8", "name": "Independent Verifier (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 257000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_independent_verifier.py", "summary": "CAIN Independent Verifier (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Standalone, Zero-Trust Independent Verification Engine. Canonical Invariant: THE INDEPENDENT VERIFIER MUST NOT BLINDLY TRUST THE CAIN RUNTIME. IT VERIFIES PASSPORTS, PROOFS, SIGNATURES, HASH-CHAINS, AND MERKLE TREES USING STRICT MATHEMATICAL AND CRYPTOGRAPHIC GUARANTEES ALONE. Supported Verification Targets: 1.", "description": "CAIN Independent Verifier (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Standalone, Zero-Trust Independent Verification Engine. Canonical Invariant: THE INDEPENDENT VERIFIER MUST NOT BLINDLY TRUST THE CAIN RUNTIME. IT VERIFIES PASSPORTS, PROOFS, SIGNATURES, HASH-CHAINS, AND MERKLE TREES USING STRICT MATHEMATICAL AND CRYPTOGRAPHIC GUARANTEES ALONE. Supported Verification Targets: 1. It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 9, "slug": "p9", "name": "E38 race integration: REAL concurrent threads, checked by a linearization oracle over the", "kind": "the agent economy", "domain": "AGENT_ECONOMY", "model": "Agent payment rail (take rate)", "price": "0.1%-1%", "scale": "per tx", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 226000, "source": "cain/govmission/races.py", "summary": "E38 race integration: REAL concurrent threads, checked by a linearization oracle over the event log. Each race runs TRIALS times on a fresh ledger: one thread changes governance state, another runs authorize -> commit (and, where relevant, a federated/remote path). The ledger's single lock linearizes the calls, and the hash-chained event log records that order. The oracle checks, for every COMMITTED event: O1 the mission was VERIFIED at commit (event.state) O2 the commit happened in the SAME epoch the authorization was issued in O3 the commit time was inside the mission validity window O4 no state-changing event (transition / epoch advance / revalidation) lies between issue and commit plus r", "description": "E38 race integration: REAL concurrent threads, checked by a linearization oracle over the event log. Each race runs TRIALS times on a fresh ledger: one thread changes governance state, another runs authorize -> commit (and, where relevant, a federated/remote path). The ledger's single lock linearizes the calls, and the hash-chained event log records that order. The oracle checks, for every COMMITTED event: O1 the mission was VERIFIED at commit (event.state) O2 the commit happened in the SAME epoch the authorization was issued in O3 the commit time was inside the mission validity window O4 no state-changing event (transition / epoch advance / revalidation) lies between issue and commit plus r It sits in the agent economy and is productized as Agent payment rail (take rate), charged at 0.1%-1% (per tx). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 10, "slug": "p10", "name": "governance compiler (IP Evolution 8, 2026-10-04)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 256000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_governance_compiler.py", "summary": "CAIN governance compiler (IP Evolution 8, 2026-10-04). Compiles a strict governance SOURCE document (cain.gov.source/1) into a typed AST, a canonical, protocol-neutral IR (cain.gov.ir/1), and contract-fabric draft arguments, and packages all of it (cain.govpkg/1) under one digest and an optional Ed25519 signature. What it is NOT: an authorization path. A compiled package only produces contract DRAFTS.", "description": "CAIN governance compiler (IP Evolution 8, 2026-10-04). Compiles a strict governance SOURCE document (cain.gov.source/1) into a typed AST, a canonical, protocol-neutral IR (cain.gov.ir/1), and contract-fabric draft arguments, and packages all of it (cain.govpkg/1) under one digest and an optional Ed25519 signature. What it is NOT: an authorization path. A compiled package only produces contract DRAFTS. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 11, "slug": "p11", "name": "Canonical 16-Stage Trust Pipeline Specification & Manifest Schema", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 256000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_canonical_pipeline.py", "summary": "CAIN Canonical 16-Stage Trust Pipeline Specification & Manifest Schema Strategic Role: Canonical AI Infrastructure Validated Trust Runtime for Autonomous Systems Canonical Architecture: CAIN 7-Moat Trust Control Plane + MCPGate Enforcement Plane The 16-Stage Unbroken Causal Action Lifecycle: 1. IDENTITY_VALIDATION (Moat 1 & 2: Who is acting? SPIFFE/Cryptographic identity) 2. AUTHORITY_VERIFICATION (Moat 2: What authority scope is possessed?", "description": "CAIN Canonical 16-Stage Trust Pipeline Specification & Manifest Schema Strategic Role: Canonical AI Infrastructure Validated Trust Runtime for Autonomous Systems Canonical Architecture: CAIN 7-Moat Trust Control Plane + MCPGate Enforcement Plane The 16-Stage Unbroken Causal Action Lifecycle: 1. IDENTITY_VALIDATION (Moat 1 & 2: Who is acting? SPIFFE/Cryptographic identity) 2. AUTHORITY_VERIFICATION (Moat 2: What authority scope is possessed? It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 12, "slug": "p12", "name": "Evolution 6 -- Byzantine agentic control plane (bounded, evidence-first)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 256000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_agentic.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 6 -- Byzantine agentic control plane (bounded, evidence-first). Agents propose; they never authorize. Every consequential agent action reaches a tool only through MCPGate's ConsensusAuthorizationGate (cain_pbft_enforcement), i.e. with a PBFT-committed authorization.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 6 -- Byzantine agentic control plane (bounded, evidence-first). Agents propose; they never authorize. Every consequential agent action reaches a tool only through MCPGate's ConsensusAuthorizationGate (cain_pbft_enforcement), i.e. with a PBFT-committed authorization. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 13, "slug": "p13", "name": "PBFT Evolution 5 -- proof-carrying authorization enforced at MCPGate", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 255000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_pbft_enforcement.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 PBFT Evolution 5 -- proof-carrying authorization enforced at MCPGate. ConsensusAuthorizationGate implements MCPGate's fabric-gate interface (check / record_effect / record_failure; cain/mcp_proxy.MCPTransparentInterceptor calls it on the real tool-call path, AFTER its own evaluation, and it can only tighten). A tool call is allowed only with a consensus AuthorizationCertificate (cain_pbft_authorization) such that ALL of: 1. the certificate verifies: its COMMIT_QC / FAST_COMMIT_QC is a valid quorum certificate for this membership, the committed request hashes to the certified digest, the body re-derives, the issuer signed it; 2.", "description": "CAIN-42 PBFT Evolution 5 -- proof-carrying authorization enforced at MCPGate. ConsensusAuthorizationGate implements MCPGate's fabric-gate interface (check / record_effect / record_failure; cain/mcp_proxy.MCPTransparentInterceptor calls it on the real tool-call path, AFTER its own evaluation, and it can only tighten). A tool call is allowed only with a consensus AuthorizationCertificate (cain_pbft_authorization) such that ALL of: 1. the certificate verifies: its COMMIT_QC / FAST_COMMIT_QC is a valid quorum certificate for this membership, the committed request hashes to the certified digest, the body re-derives, the issuer signed it; 2. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 14, "slug": "p14", "name": "Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution 1, 2026-10-04) -- one signed, versioned contract", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 255000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_governance_contract.py", "summary": "CAIN Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution 1, 2026-10-04) -- one signed, versioned contract that binds WHO (identity) + WITH WHAT CAPABILITY + UNDER WHAT AUTHORITY + POLICY + RISK + ACTION + EXECUTION PATH + EVIDENCE for the four products in the 30-day plan: RIG (authority source), OpenShell (exec), MemVault (memory), SCITT (evidence). A contract never creates authority. Authority comes only from RIG: at AUTHORIZE time the subject's RIG delegation chain must be active and must grant `.` on the contract resource, and the same check is re-run on every invocation (a RIG revocation kills the contract at its next use). Construction (all hashes SHA-256, all signatures Ed25519 via", "description": "CAIN Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution 1, 2026-10-04) -- one signed, versioned contract that binds WHO (identity) + WITH WHAT CAPABILITY + UNDER WHAT AUTHORITY + POLICY + RISK + ACTION + EXECUTION PATH + EVIDENCE for the four products in the 30-day plan: RIG (authority source), OpenShell (exec), MemVault (memory), SCITT (evidence). A contract never creates authority. Authority comes only from RIG: at AUTHORIZE time the subject's RIG delegation chain must be active and must grant `.` on the contract resource, and the same check is re-run on every invocation (a RIG revocation kills the contract at its next use). Construction (all hashes SHA-256, all signatures Ed25519 via It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 15, "slug": "p15", "name": "Evolution 25: Universal Machine Agency Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 254000, "source": "cain45/l5/agency_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 25: Universal Machine Agency Fabric. One protocol-neutral transaction model for consequential machine actions: PRINCIPAL -> AGENT IDENTITY -> INSTANCE -> PROVENANCE (model/runtime binding) -> INTENT -> CONTEXT -> CAPABILITY -> DELEGATION -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> AUTHORIZATION -> E8 COMMIT -> EXECUTION -> OUTCOME -> RECEIPT -> EVIDENCE -> REPLAY / REVOCATION NO VERIFIED IDENTITY -> NO TRUSTED AGENCY NO CAPABILITY -> NO ACTION NO AUTHORITY -> NO AUTHORIZATION NO AUTHORIZATION -> NO EXECUTION NO EXECUTION RECEIPT -> NO COMPLETE ACCOUNTABILITY What is real here: the envelope (canonical, signed by the agent instance's own key), the transaction state machine, the policy", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 25: Universal Machine Agency Fabric. One protocol-neutral transaction model for consequential machine actions: PRINCIPAL -> AGENT IDENTITY -> INSTANCE -> PROVENANCE (model/runtime binding) -> INTENT -> CONTEXT -> CAPABILITY -> DELEGATION -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> AUTHORIZATION -> E8 COMMIT -> EXECUTION -> OUTCOME -> RECEIPT -> EVIDENCE -> REPLAY / REVOCATION NO VERIFIED IDENTITY -> NO TRUSTED AGENCY NO CAPABILITY -> NO ACTION NO AUTHORITY -> NO AUTHORIZATION NO AUTHORIZATION -> NO EXECUTION NO EXECUTION RECEIPT -> NO COMPLETE ACCOUNTABILITY What is real here: the envelope (canonical, signed by the agent instance's own key), the transaction state machine, the policy It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 16, "slug": "p16", "name": "Evolution 25: Universal Machine Agency Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 254000, "source": "cain45/l5/agency_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 25: Universal Machine Agency Fabric. One protocol-neutral transaction model for consequential machine actions: PRINCIPAL -> AGENT IDENTITY -> INSTANCE -> PROVENANCE (model/runtime binding) -> INTENT -> CONTEXT -> CAPABILITY -> DELEGATION -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> AUTHORIZATION -> E8 COMMIT -> EXECUTION -> OUTCOME -> RECEIPT -> EVIDENCE -> REPLAY / REVOCATION NO VERIFIED IDENTITY -> NO TRUSTED AGENCY NO CAPABILITY -> NO ACTION NO AUTHORITY -> NO AUTHORIZATION NO AUTHORIZATION -> NO EXECUTION NO EXECUTION RECEIPT -> NO COMPLETE ACCOUNTABILITY What is real here: the envelope (canonical, signed by the agent instance's own key), the transaction state machine, the policy", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 25: Universal Machine Agency Fabric. One protocol-neutral transaction model for consequential machine actions: PRINCIPAL -> AGENT IDENTITY -> INSTANCE -> PROVENANCE (model/runtime binding) -> INTENT -> CONTEXT -> CAPABILITY -> DELEGATION -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> AUTHORIZATION -> E8 COMMIT -> EXECUTION -> OUTCOME -> RECEIPT -> EVIDENCE -> REPLAY / REVOCATION NO VERIFIED IDENTITY -> NO TRUSTED AGENCY NO CAPABILITY -> NO ACTION NO AUTHORITY -> NO AUTHORIZATION NO AUTHORIZATION -> NO EXECUTION NO EXECUTION RECEIPT -> NO COMPLETE ACCOUNTABILITY What is real here: the envelope (canonical, signed by the agent instance's own key), the transaction state machine, the policy It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 17, "slug": "p17", "name": "Evolution 19: Governed Autonomy Operating Fabric (the autonomous-system state layer)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 254000, "source": "cain45/l5/autonomy_state.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 19: Governed Autonomy Operating Fabric (the autonomous-system state layer). AGENT -> IDENTITY -> MISSION -> GOALS -> BELIEFS / EVIDENCE -> WORLD STATE -> INTENT -> PREDICTION -> TRAJECTORY -> CONSEQUENCE -> AUTHORITY -> CAPABILITY -> AUTHORIZATION -> ACTION -> EXECUTION -> OBSERVED OUTCOME -> REALITY COMPARISON -> LEARNING / STATE UPDATE -> RE-AUTHORIZATION -> NEXT ACTION E19 governs the continuously evolving STATE of an autonomous system, not only its individual actions. Every transition above is a governed, hash-chained state record; no transition happens silently. Core law: NO STATE TRANSITION WITHOUT GOVERNANCE.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 19: Governed Autonomy Operating Fabric (the autonomous-system state layer). AGENT -> IDENTITY -> MISSION -> GOALS -> BELIEFS / EVIDENCE -> WORLD STATE -> INTENT -> PREDICTION -> TRAJECTORY -> CONSEQUENCE -> AUTHORITY -> CAPABILITY -> AUTHORIZATION -> ACTION -> EXECUTION -> OBSERVED OUTCOME -> REALITY COMPARISON -> LEARNING / STATE UPDATE -> RE-AUTHORIZATION -> NEXT ACTION E19 governs the continuously evolving STATE of an autonomous system, not only its individual actions. Every transition above is a governed, hash-chained state record; no transition happens silently. Core law: NO STATE TRANSITION WITHOUT GOVERNANCE. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 18, "slug": "p18", "name": "Evolution 9: Universal Agent Passport, Provenance & Capability Supply-Chain Fabric", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 253000, "source": "cain45/l5/passport.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 9: Universal Agent Passport, Provenance & Capability Supply-Chain Fabric. WHO IS THIS AGENT? WHAT EXACTLY IS RUNNING? WHO CREATED IT?", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 9: Universal Agent Passport, Provenance & Capability Supply-Chain Fabric. WHO IS THIS AGENT? WHAT EXACTLY IS RUNNING? WHO CREATED IT? It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 19, "slug": "p19", "name": "Evolution 37: the Autonomous Execution Mesh -- core primitives", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 253000, "source": "cain45/l5/execution_mesh.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 37: the Autonomous Execution Mesh -- core primitives. E37 moves CAIN from machine agency governance to governed machine execution infrastructure. The machine may move; the governance must not disappear. Every move of an execution (node, runtime, model, region, cloud, container, credential) is a governed state transition, never a fresh identity and never a silent continuation.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 37: the Autonomous Execution Mesh -- core primitives. E37 moves CAIN from machine agency governance to governed machine execution infrastructure. The machine may move; the governance must not disappear. Every move of an execution (node, runtime, model, region, cloud, container, credential) is a governed state transition, never a fresh identity and never a silent continuation. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 20, "slug": "p20", "name": "governance data plane: quorum-committed authorization snapshots", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 253000, "source": "platform-gateway/governance_snapshot.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 governance data plane: quorum-committed authorization snapshots. The problem this solves, measured on 2026-09-29 against the live hosted Fabric: with CAIN_FABRIC_CONSENSUS=1 every recorded decision waits for its own PBFT round on cain-mr-01 before it returns. That consensus stage took 1.2 s to 6.0 s per call and the whole request 2.4 s to 7.4 s (CAIN42_GOVERNANCE_DATAPLANE_BASELINE.json). The quorum is agreeing, again, to something it already agreed to a second ago.", "description": "CAIN-42 governance data plane: quorum-committed authorization snapshots. The problem this solves, measured on 2026-09-29 against the live hosted Fabric: with CAIN_FABRIC_CONSENSUS=1 every recorded decision waits for its own PBFT round on cain-mr-01 before it returns. That consensus stage took 1.2 s to 6.0 s per call and the whole request 2.4 s to 7.4 s (CAIN42_GOVERNANCE_DATAPLANE_BASELINE.json). The quorum is agreeing, again, to something it already agreed to a second ago. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 21, "slug": "p21", "name": "CAIN-45 Agent Hypervisor: the authority boundary between an agent's intent and a real side", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 252000, "source": "cain45/hypervisor.py", "summary": "CAIN-45 Agent Hypervisor: the authority boundary between an agent's intent and a real side effect. An agent never holds execution authority itself. It proposes; the hypervisor decides whether the operation may enter a ZoD, and the only ways a ZoD can cause an effect are the two doors below, both of which re-check authority on every use: run(zod, grant, argv) code, inside bubblewrap + a cgroup (cain45/confine.py) call_tool(zod, grant, tool) an MCP tool call, through CAIN's real MCPGate interceptor (cain/mcp_proxy.py) Authority chain for a ZoD (all of it must hold, or the ZoD is not AUTHORIZED): 1. the instance is registered and its runtime attestation matches the measurement registered for it", "description": "CAIN-45 Agent Hypervisor: the authority boundary between an agent's intent and a real side effect. An agent never holds execution authority itself. It proposes; the hypervisor decides whether the operation may enter a ZoD, and the only ways a ZoD can cause an effect are the two doors below, both of which re-check authority on every use: run(zod, grant, argv) code, inside bubblewrap + a cgroup (cain45/confine.py) call_tool(zod, grant, tool) an MCP tool call, through CAIN's real MCPGate interceptor (cain/mcp_proxy.py) Authority chain for a ZoD (all of it must hold, or the ZoD is not AUTHORIZED): 1. the instance is registered and its runtime attestation matches the measurement registered for it It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 22, "slug": "p22", "name": "E13 BPF governance state + Byzantine policy distribution", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 252000, "source": "cain/govbpf/state.py", "summary": "E13 BPF governance state + Byzantine policy distribution. The consensus-relevant state is deliberately small. Raw kernel telemetry is NOT replicated: RAW OBSERVATION (bpftrace line) -> NORMALIZED OBSERVATION (objects.runtime_observation) -> receipt commitment (observation Merkle root) -> GOVERNANCE EVENT (revocation / quarantine) -> CONSENSUS-RELEVANT STATE (this module): epoch, active policy + program hash, revocations, quarantine. Every change to that state needs a quorum certificate: >= threshold distinct Ed25519 signatures from the governance replicas fixed at genesis (N=4, f=1, threshold=3 by default) over a body that binds the previous governance root and the next epoch.", "description": "E13 BPF governance state + Byzantine policy distribution. The consensus-relevant state is deliberately small. Raw kernel telemetry is NOT replicated: RAW OBSERVATION (bpftrace line) -> NORMALIZED OBSERVATION (objects.runtime_observation) -> receipt commitment (observation Merkle root) -> GOVERNANCE EVENT (revocation / quarantine) -> CONSENSUS-RELEVANT STATE (this module): epoch, active policy + program hash, revocations, quarantine. Every change to that state needs a quorum certificate: >= threshold distinct Ed25519 signatures from the governance replicas fixed at genesis (N=4, f=1, threshold=3 by default) over a body that binds the previous governance root and the next epoch. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 23, "slug": "p23", "name": "Quorum-attested contract state (IP Evolution 2, 2026-10-04)", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 251000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_contract_quorum.py", "summary": "Quorum-attested contract state (IP Evolution 2, 2026-10-04). Evolution 1 kept contract state in one SQLite file behind one signing key. Two gateway instances (blue/green) or a compromised coordinator could therefore disagree about, or lie about, how many times a contract was used or whether it was revoked. This module adds a Byzantine quorum system over N replicas (f = floor((N-1)/3), quorum q = ceil((N+f+1)/2), so any two quorums share >= f+1 replicas, at least one honest): AUTHORIZE certificate q replicas each independently re-check the contract (validate_body + RIG authority covers + epoch) and sign H(fp, grant_digest, epoch).", "description": "Quorum-attested contract state (IP Evolution 2, 2026-10-04). Evolution 1 kept contract state in one SQLite file behind one signing key. Two gateway instances (blue/green) or a compromised coordinator could therefore disagree about, or lie about, how many times a contract was used or whether it was revoked. This module adds a Byzantine quorum system over N replicas (f = floor((N-1)/3), quorum q = ceil((N+f+1)/2), so any two quorums share >= f+1 replicas, at least one honest): AUTHORIZE certificate q replicas each independently re-check the contract (validate_body + RIG authority covers + epoch) and sign H(fp, grant_digest, epoch). It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 24, "slug": "p24", "name": "Evolution 12, Phase 1 \u2014 canonical Trust Network State: deterministic state root + replay", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 251000, "source": "cain/govnetwork/state.py", "summary": "Evolution 12, Phase 1 \u2014 canonical Trust Network State: deterministic state root + replay. E12 already had canonical objects with per-object digests. What it lacked was a single deterministic *network state* that can be advanced by a totally ordered log of operations and whose root commits to the whole state. This module adds exactly that and nothing more: TrustNetworkState -- plain canonical dict (governance, identities, capabilities, trust edges, contracts, interactions, revocations, incidents, epoch, op chain) apply(state, op) -- the ONE deterministic transition function; validates first, mutates last state_root(state) -- RFC 6962 Merkle root over the canonical sections replay(genesis, log", "description": "Evolution 12, Phase 1 \u2014 canonical Trust Network State: deterministic state root + replay. E12 already had canonical objects with per-object digests. What it lacked was a single deterministic *network state* that can be advanced by a totally ordered log of operations and whose root commits to the whole state. This module adds exactly that and nothing more: TrustNetworkState -- plain canonical dict (governance, identities, capabilities, trust edges, contracts, interactions, revocations, incidents, epoch, op chain) apply(state, op) -- the ONE deterministic transition function; validates first, mutates last state_root(state) -- RFC 6962 Merkle root over the canonical sections replay(genesis, log It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 25, "slug": "p25", "name": "supply-chain governance for agent artifacts", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 250000, "source": "cain/cain_artifact_attestation.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 supply-chain governance for agent artifacts. Extends **Moat 2 (security-context continuity)** and **Moat 4 (execution provenance & attestation)**. It introduces no new moat: it is the artifact-level provenance and authority-continuity boundary for the tools, skills, plugins, MCP servers and models an agent can reach. Threat model (2026 frontier research): * Skill-Inject: a malicious skill file reaches ~80% attack success on frontier models.", "description": "CAIN-42 supply-chain governance for agent artifacts. Extends **Moat 2 (security-context continuity)** and **Moat 4 (execution provenance & attestation)**. It introduces no new moat: it is the artifact-level provenance and authority-continuity boundary for the tools, skills, plugins, MCP servers and models an agent can reach. Threat model (2026 frontier research): * Skill-Inject: a malicious skill file reaches ~80% attack success on frontier models. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 26, "slug": "p26", "name": "Evolution 12 Machine-Checkable Formal Trust Invariants (T1 - T15)", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 250000, "source": "cain/trustnet/invariants.py", "summary": "Evolution 12 Machine-Checkable Formal Trust Invariants (T1 - T15). Formal guarantees enforced mathematically across the Autonomous Trust Network: T1: Identity does not imply authority. T2: Trust does not imply authority. T3: Capability does not imply permission.", "description": "Evolution 12 Machine-Checkable Formal Trust Invariants (T1 - T15). Formal guarantees enforced mathematically across the Autonomous Trust Network: T1: Identity does not imply authority. T2: Trust does not imply authority. T3: Capability does not imply permission. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 27, "slug": "p27", "name": "Evolution 12 Machine-Checkable Formal Trust Invariants (T1 - T15)", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 250000, "source": "cain/trustnet/invariants.py", "summary": "Evolution 12 Machine-Checkable Formal Trust Invariants (T1 - T15). Formal guarantees enforced mathematically across the Autonomous Trust Network: T1: Identity does not imply authority. T2: Trust does not imply authority. T3: Capability does not imply permission.", "description": "Evolution 12 Machine-Checkable Formal Trust Invariants (T1 - T15). Formal guarantees enforced mathematically across the Autonomous Trust Network: T1: Identity does not imply authority. T2: Trust does not imply authority. T3: Capability does not imply permission. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 28, "slug": "p28", "name": "Evolution 11 proof primitives", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 249000, "source": "cain/govproof/primitives.py", "summary": "Evolution 11 proof primitives. * selective disclosure -- verify one evidence item against the proof's committed Merkle root without seeing the other items (commitment-based privacy, NOT zero knowledge); * composite proofs -- nested governance across org -> agent -> sub-agent -> tool, where the composite scope is the *intersection* of the parts (composition cannot amplify authority); * federation proofs -- a cross-domain action is authorized only if every participating domain's proof allows it and the policy intersection covers the action; * revocation -- a governed registry that a verifier applies to a proof; * replay -- deterministic reconstruction of the governance facts, to detect diverge", "description": "Evolution 11 proof primitives. * selective disclosure -- verify one evidence item against the proof's committed Merkle root without seeing the other items (commitment-based privacy, NOT zero knowledge); * composite proofs -- nested governance across org -> agent -> sub-agent -> tool, where the composite scope is the *intersection* of the parts (composition cannot amplify authority); * federation proofs -- a cross-domain action is authorized only if every participating domain's proof allows it and the policy intersection covers the action; * revocation -- a governed registry that a verifier applies to a proof; * replay -- deterministic reconstruction of the governance facts, to detect diverge It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 29, "slug": "p29", "name": "33.4 / 34.0 \u2014 Hardened Byzantine Fault Tolerant (PBFT) Consensus Engine", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 249000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_pbft_engine_33.py", "summary": "CAIN 33.4 / 34.0 \u2014 Hardened Byzantine Fault Tolerant (PBFT) Consensus Engine Architecture: 7-Moat Validated AI Infrastructure Runtime Specification: Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (Castro & Liskov 1999) + CAIN Hardened Execution Monopolies Guarantees & Invariants: 1. NO AUTHORIZATION -> NO EXECUTION 2. Monotonic State Determinism across Replicas 3. Cryptographic Message Authentication on ALL consensus messages (Ed25519) 4.", "description": "CAIN 33.4 / 34.0 \u2014 Hardened Byzantine Fault Tolerant (PBFT) Consensus Engine Architecture: 7-Moat Validated AI Infrastructure Runtime Specification: Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (Castro & Liskov 1999) + CAIN Hardened Execution Monopolies Guarantees & Invariants: 1. NO AUTHORIZATION -> NO EXECUTION 2. Monotonic State Determinism across Replicas 3. Cryptographic Message Authentication on ALL consensus messages (Ed25519) 4. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 30, "slug": "p30", "name": "Evolution 26: Universal Machine Agency Trust Fabric", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 248000, "source": "cain45/l5/trust_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 26: Universal Machine Agency Trust Fabric. E26 is a strict extension of E25 (``agency_fabric``). E25 gave every consequential machine action a protocol-neutral envelope and routed it through the E8 commit boundary. E26 adds the *portable trust layer* on top of that envelope, so that identity, attestation, delegation, authorization and execution stop being conventions and become independently verifiable, transaction-bound objects: DISCOVER -> IDENTIFY -> ATTEST -> TRUST -> INTENT -> CAPABILITY -> DELEGATION -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION -> ENFORCED EXECUTION -> ATTESTED OUTCOME -> FINALITY -> RECEIPT -> EVIDENCE -> REPLAY -> REVOKE / RECOVER / L", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 26: Universal Machine Agency Trust Fabric. E26 is a strict extension of E25 (``agency_fabric``). E25 gave every consequential machine action a protocol-neutral envelope and routed it through the E8 commit boundary. E26 adds the *portable trust layer* on top of that envelope, so that identity, attestation, delegation, authorization and execution stop being conventions and become independently verifiable, transaction-bound objects: DISCOVER -> IDENTIFY -> ATTEST -> TRUST -> INTENT -> CAPABILITY -> DELEGATION -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION -> ENFORCED EXECUTION -> ATTESTED OUTCOME -> FINALITY -> RECEIPT -> EVIDENCE -> REPLAY -> REVOKE / RECOVER / L It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 31, "slug": "p31", "name": "CAG-L5 System Governance (Prompt 4): governing the whole autonomous system, not one agent", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 248000, "source": "cain45/l5/system_governance.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 CAG-L5 System Governance (Prompt 4): governing the whole autonomous system, not one agent. CAG-L5 = \"CAIN Autonomous Governance Level 5\", a CAIN-specific governance designation. It is NOT the SAE driving-automation scale and nothing here claims any agent is \"SAE Level 5\". THE L5 SYSTEM MAY BE AUTONOMOUS.", "description": "CAIN-42 CAG-L5 System Governance (Prompt 4): governing the whole autonomous system, not one agent. CAG-L5 = \"CAIN Autonomous Governance Level 5\", a CAIN-specific governance designation. It is NOT the SAE driving-automation scale and nothing here claims any agent is \"SAE Level 5\". THE L5 SYSTEM MAY BE AUTONOMOUS. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 32, "slug": "p32", "name": "Evolution 34: Proof-Carrying Machine Agency Fabric", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 248000, "source": "cain45/l5/proof_agency.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 34: Proof-Carrying Machine Agency Fabric. E34 does not re-decide anything and does not duplicate E8. It turns what the stack already produces for one governed operation -- the E33 operation record, the E31 governance proof with its E30/E28/E25/E8 artifacts, the E28 identity, passport, delegation tokens and lineage -- into ONE signed, chained `GovernanceProofEnvelope` that says \"THIS ACTION WAS GOVERNED UNDER THESE VERIFIED CONDITIONS\" and, just as explicitly, which parts are UNKNOWN, UNCONTROLLED, UNVERIFIED, SIMULATED or OUTSIDE the boundary. It never says an action was safe, and it never carries authority: a proof, a receipt or a certificate presented as permission is ref", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 34: Proof-Carrying Machine Agency Fabric. E34 does not re-decide anything and does not duplicate E8. It turns what the stack already produces for one governed operation -- the E33 operation record, the E31 governance proof with its E30/E28/E25/E8 artifacts, the E28 identity, passport, delegation tokens and lineage -- into ONE signed, chained `GovernanceProofEnvelope` that says \"THIS ACTION WAS GOVERNED UNDER THESE VERIFIED CONDITIONS\" and, just as explicitly, which parts are UNKNOWN, UNCONTROLLED, UNVERIFIED, SIMULATED or OUTSIDE the boundary. It never says an action was safe, and it never carries authority: a proof, a receipt or a certificate presented as permission is ref It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 33, "slug": "p33", "name": "Evolution 38: portable proof-carrying machine agency -- core proof model", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 247000, "source": "cain45/l5/proof_interchange.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 38: portable proof-carrying machine agency -- core proof model. E34 gave every governed operation one signed GovernanceProofEnvelope; E31 gave the proof kernel, RFC 6962 transparency log, GIP message helpers, cross-domain translator and handshake; E37 bound executions to epochs, environment passports and receipts. E38 does not replace any of them. It makes the proof PORTABLE and INDEPENDENTLY CHECKABLE across boundaries: * layer proofs (identity, capability, delegation, policy, risk, evidence, authorization, commit, execution, outcome, environment, enforcement, revocation, continuity, migration, recovery, federation, conformance, governability), each signed, each naming wha", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 38: portable proof-carrying machine agency -- core proof model. E34 gave every governed operation one signed GovernanceProofEnvelope; E31 gave the proof kernel, RFC 6962 transparency log, GIP message helpers, cross-domain translator and handshake; E37 bound executions to epochs, environment passports and receipts. E38 does not replace any of them. It makes the proof PORTABLE and INDEPENDENTLY CHECKABLE across boundaries: * layer proofs (identity, capability, delegation, policy, risk, evidence, authorization, commit, execution, outcome, environment, enforcement, revocation, continuity, migration, recovery, federation, conformance, governability), each signed, each naming wha It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 34, "slug": "p34", "name": "PBFT Evolution 4 -- DAG-assisted dissemination, data availability and causal evidence (Nar", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 247000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_pbft_dag.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 PBFT Evolution 4 -- DAG-assisted dissemination, data availability and causal evidence (Narwhal-style certified DAG), bridged into the PBFT kernel. AUTHORITY. The DAG decides nothing. It disseminates batches, proves that data is available, records causality and produces evidence.", "description": "CAIN-42 PBFT Evolution 4 -- DAG-assisted dissemination, data availability and causal evidence (Narwhal-style certified DAG), bridged into the PBFT kernel. AUTHORITY. The DAG decides nothing. It disseminates batches, proves that data is available, records causality and produces evidence. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 35, "slug": "p35", "name": "`cain pbft` -- operator tool for the CAIN-42 PBFT engine", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 246000, "source": "scripts/cain42_bft/pbft_tool.py", "summary": "`cain pbft` -- operator tool for the CAIN-42 PBFT engine. Every subcommand runs real code against real nodes, WAL files or the engine; nothing here reports a result it did not compute. status --nodes URL... view / commit_index / state root / health per node, and whether nodes at the same commit_index agree inspect --node URL one node: status, recent verdicts, quarantine, proofs quorum [--n 4 5 7] f, Q and the quorum-intersection check, from the engine certificates --node URL the node's certified log (sequence, digest, signers) evidence --node URL the node's hash-chained Byzantine evidence, chain re-verified here verify --nodes URL...", "description": "`cain pbft` -- operator tool for the CAIN-42 PBFT engine. Every subcommand runs real code against real nodes, WAL files or the engine; nothing here reports a result it did not compute. status --nodes URL... view / commit_index / state root / health per node, and whether nodes at the same commit_index agree inspect --node URL one node: status, recent verdicts, quarantine, proofs quorum [--n 4 5 7] f, Q and the quorum-intersection check, from the engine certificates --node URL the node's certified log (sequence, digest, signers) evidence --node URL the node's hash-chained Byzantine evidence, chain re-verified here verify --nodes URL... It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 36, "slug": "p36", "name": "Trust Kernel Primitive API (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 246000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_trust_kernel_api.py", "summary": "CAIN Trust Kernel Primitive API (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Minimal Stable Primitives for Autonomous Systems Governance. Canonical Identity: Organizes Trust Infrastructure around Core Primitives, not Product Count. The 14 Canonical Primitives: 1. IDENTIFY: Cryptographic actor validation & credential binding.", "description": "CAIN Trust Kernel Primitive API (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Minimal Stable Primitives for Autonomous Systems Governance. Canonical Identity: Organizes Trust Infrastructure around Core Primitives, not Product Count. The 14 Canonical Primitives: 1. IDENTIFY: Cryptographic actor validation & credential binding. It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 37, "slug": "p37", "name": "Epoch 14: Autonomous Trust Fabric OS Kernel Substrate", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 245000, "source": "quarantine/epoch14_concurrent_session_unverified/platform-gateway/cain_trust_os_kernel_14.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Epoch 14: Autonomous Trust Fabric OS Kernel Substrate Phases 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: Implements the core Trust Fabric OS Kernel that sits underneath autonomous agents: - TrustFabricOSKernel: The sole authority that owns Identity, Authority, Policy, Constitution, Capability, Provenance, Trust, Evidence, Revocation, Quorum, Verification, Recovery. - AgentPrincipal: 8 Universal Principal Types (HUMAN, AGENT, SUBAGENT, SERVICE, MODEL, TOOL, MCP_SERVER, EXTERNAL_AGENT). - CAINCapability: Attenuating, non-amplifying 15+ dimensional capability object. - AuthorityGraph: Reconstructs who authorized, how authority reached the age", "description": "CAIN-42 Epoch 14: Autonomous Trust Fabric OS Kernel Substrate Phases 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: Implements the core Trust Fabric OS Kernel that sits underneath autonomous agents: - TrustFabricOSKernel: The sole authority that owns Identity, Authority, Policy, Constitution, Capability, Provenance, Trust, Evidence, Revocation, Quorum, Verification, Recovery. - AgentPrincipal: 8 Universal Principal Types (HUMAN, AGENT, SUBAGENT, SERVICE, MODEL, TOOL, MCP_SERVER, EXTERNAL_AGENT). - CAINCapability: Attenuating, non-amplifying 15+ dimensional capability object. - AuthorityGraph: Reconstructs who authorized, how authority reached the age It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 38, "slug": "p38", "name": "Epoch 14: Autonomous Trust Fabric OS Kernel Substrate", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 245000, "source": "quarantine/epoch14_concurrent_session_unverified/platform-gateway/cain_trust_os_kernel_14.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Epoch 14: Autonomous Trust Fabric OS Kernel Substrate Phases 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: Implements the core Trust Fabric OS Kernel that sits underneath autonomous agents: - TrustFabricOSKernel: The sole authority that owns Identity, Authority, Policy, Constitution, Capability, Provenance, Trust, Evidence, Revocation, Quorum, Verification, Recovery. - AgentPrincipal: 8 Universal Principal Types (HUMAN, AGENT, SUBAGENT, SERVICE, MODEL, TOOL, MCP_SERVER, EXTERNAL_AGENT). - CAINCapability: Attenuating, non-amplifying 15+ dimensional capability object. - AuthorityGraph: Reconstructs who authorized, how authority reached the age", "description": "CAIN-42 Epoch 14: Autonomous Trust Fabric OS Kernel Substrate Phases 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: Implements the core Trust Fabric OS Kernel that sits underneath autonomous agents: - TrustFabricOSKernel: The sole authority that owns Identity, Authority, Policy, Constitution, Capability, Provenance, Trust, Evidence, Revocation, Quorum, Verification, Recovery. - AgentPrincipal: 8 Universal Principal Types (HUMAN, AGENT, SUBAGENT, SERVICE, MODEL, TOOL, MCP_SERVER, EXTERNAL_AGENT). - CAINCapability: Attenuating, non-amplifying 15+ dimensional capability object. - AuthorityGraph: Reconstructs who authorized, how authority reached the age It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 39, "slug": "p39", "name": "/fabric/contracts/* -- tenant-scoped API for the Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 245000, "source": "platform-gateway/routers/contracts.py", "summary": "/fabric/contracts/* -- tenant-scoped API for the Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution 2, 2026-10-04). Threat model (what each control is for): authentication main.frontier20_gate: every write needs an API key; its tenant is bound for the handler. Anonymous GETs land in the empty public tenant (they can read /status and /trust only). tenant isolation one fabric (SQLite + E8 registry) per tenant directory; reads of another tenant's id return the same 404 as a missing id (no enumeration oracle); contract ids are 128-bit random.", "description": "/fabric/contracts/* -- tenant-scoped API for the Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution 2, 2026-10-04). Threat model (what each control is for): authentication main.frontier20_gate: every write needs an API key; its tenant is bound for the handler. Anonymous GETs land in the empty public tenant (they can read /status and /trust only). tenant isolation one fabric (SQLite + E8 registry) per tenant directory; reads of another tenant's id return the same 404 as a missing id (no enumeration oracle); contract ids are 128-bit random. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 40, "slug": "p40", "name": "/fabric/contracts/* -- tenant-scoped API for the Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 245000, "source": "platform-gateway/routers/contracts.py", "summary": "/fabric/contracts/* -- tenant-scoped API for the Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution 2, 2026-10-04). Threat model (what each control is for): authentication main.frontier20_gate: every write needs an API key; its tenant is bound for the handler. Anonymous GETs land in the empty public tenant (they can read /status and /trust only). tenant isolation one fabric (SQLite + E8 registry) per tenant directory; reads of another tenant's id return the same 404 as a missing id (no enumeration oracle); contract ids are 128-bit random.", "description": "/fabric/contracts/* -- tenant-scoped API for the Governance Contract Fabric (IP Evolution 2, 2026-10-04). Threat model (what each control is for): authentication main.frontier20_gate: every write needs an API key; its tenant is bound for the handler. Anonymous GETs land in the empty public tenant (they can read /status and /trust only). tenant isolation one fabric (SQLite + E8 registry) per tenant directory; reads of another tenant's id return the same 404 as a missing id (no enumeration oracle); contract ids are 128-bit random. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 41, "slug": "p41", "name": "Trust Fabric - Actuarial Cyber Insurance Underwriting & Statutory Notary (Pillar 4)", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 244000, "source": "cain/cain_actuarial_notary.py", "summary": "CAIN Trust Fabric - Actuarial Cyber Insurance Underwriting & Statutory Notary (Pillar 4) Pillar 4: Actuarial Cyber Insurance & Autonomous Notary Protocol Empowers enterprise cyber reinsurance syndicates (Munich Re, Swiss Re, Lloyd's of London) to underwrite autonomous AI agent swarms and fleet operations with actuarial mathematical certainty. Core Capabilities: 1. CAIN Agent Underwriting Score (0\u20131000): - Formal Safety Invariant Adherence (400 pts): real-time invariant evaluation - Blast Radius & Kernel Sandboxing (2", "description": "CAIN Trust Fabric - Actuarial Cyber Insurance Underwriting & Statutory Notary (Pillar 4) Pillar 4: Actuarial Cyber Insurance & Autonomous Notary Protocol Empowers enterprise cyber reinsurance syndicates (Munich Re, Swiss Re, Lloyd's of London) to underwrite autonomous AI agent swarms and fleet operations with actuarial mathematical certainty. Core Capabilities: 1. CAIN Agent Underwriting Score (0\u20131000): - Formal Safety Invariant Adherence (400 pts): real-time invariant evaluation - Blast Radius & Kernel Sandboxing (2 It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 42, "slug": "p42", "name": "E39 world-bound authorization (WBA), physical action governance, the reality dependency gr", "kind": "physical-AI and world-model governance", "domain": "PHYSICAL_AI_AND_WORLD_MODELS", "model": "Actuation-command guard (per command)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/command", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 244000, "source": "cain/govreality/authorize.py", "summary": "E39 world-bound authorization (WBA), physical action governance, the reality dependency graph, MCPGate re-check, effect verification (EVC) and postconditions (PGE). PAAO (proposed action + conditions + expected effect + fallback) -> authorize(): external authority AND current verified world state AND every condition holds over the WHOLE uncertainty hull AND runtime/kernel roots AND (for physical classes) a BFT commit -> WBA signed by the governance key, bound to the world root AND the DEPENDENCY ROOT (only the facts the conditions read) AND a freshness window -> MCPGate (at execution time) recomputes the dependency root from the CURRENT world, re-evaluates the conditions at the execution ins", "description": "E39 world-bound authorization (WBA), physical action governance, the reality dependency graph, MCPGate re-check, effect verification (EVC) and postconditions (PGE). PAAO (proposed action + conditions + expected effect + fallback) -> authorize(): external authority AND current verified world state AND every condition holds over the WHOLE uncertainty hull AND runtime/kernel roots AND (for physical classes) a BFT commit -> WBA signed by the governance key, bound to the world root AND the DEPENDENCY ROOT (only the facts the conditions read) AND a freshness window -> MCPGate (at execution time) recomputes the dependency root from the CURRENT world, re-evaluates the conditions at the execution ins It sits in physical-AI and world-model governance and is productized as Actuation-command guard (per command), charged at $0.001-$0.01/command (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 43, "slug": "p43", "name": "E36 Byzantine Autonomous Collective Coordination -- core", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 243000, "source": "cain/govcollective/core.py", "summary": "E36 Byzantine Autonomous Collective Coordination -- core. Autonomous Collective Object (ACO), collective state root, membership governance, collective authority NON-amplification, collective integrity (E35 member refs), collective decisions (agreement is NOT authorization), collective fork detection, revocation and reconstitution. Central invariant: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE MAY COORDINATE POWER BUT MUST NEVER MANUFACTURE AUTHORITY.", "description": "E36 Byzantine Autonomous Collective Coordination -- core. Autonomous Collective Object (ACO), collective state root, membership governance, collective authority NON-amplification, collective integrity (E35 member refs), collective decisions (agreement is NOT authorization), collective fork detection, revocation and reconstitution. Central invariant: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE MAY COORDINATE POWER BUT MUST NEVER MANUFACTURE AUTHORITY. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 44, "slug": "p44", "name": "E13 -- CLEAN-ROOM BPF GOVERNANCE ARTIFACT VERIFIER. ZERO CAIN imports: standard library +", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 243000, "source": "verification/govbpf/verify_e13.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 E13 -- CLEAN-ROOM BPF GOVERNANCE ARTIFACT VERIFIER. ZERO CAIN imports: standard library + `cryptography` only. Written from docs/evolution13/PROTOCOL.md. It checks an E13 artifact set without running or trusting CAIN code: 1.", "description": "CAIN-42 E13 -- CLEAN-ROOM BPF GOVERNANCE ARTIFACT VERIFIER. ZERO CAIN imports: standard library + `cryptography` only. Written from docs/evolution13/PROTOCOL.md. It checks an E13 artifact set without running or trusting CAIN code: 1. It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 45, "slug": "p45", "name": "E20 canonical governed autonomous state (STAGE 1)", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 243000, "source": "cain/e20/state/governed_state.py", "summary": "E20 canonical governed autonomous state (STAGE 1). One immutable, hash-chained representation of \"who/what/why/when/under which policy/with which capabilities/based on which evidence/with what uncertainty/under what consensus\". It is the state substrate the rest of E20 reads; it grants nothing. Design laws enforced here: * **Non-collapse of fact layers.** Every component carries a layer from ``OBSERVED | INFERRED | PREDICTED | SIMULATED | UNKNOWN``.", "description": "E20 canonical governed autonomous state (STAGE 1). One immutable, hash-chained representation of \"who/what/why/when/under which policy/with which capabilities/based on which evidence/with what uncertainty/under what consensus\". It is the state substrate the rest of E20 reads; it grants nothing. Design laws enforced here: * **Non-collapse of fact layers.** Every component carries a layer from ``OBSERVED | INFERRED | PREDICTED | SIMULATED | UNKNOWN``. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 46, "slug": "p46", "name": "Evolution 12 formal trust invariants T1..T15, executable", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 242000, "source": "cain/govnetwork/invariants.py", "summary": "Evolution 12 formal trust invariants T1..T15, executable. T1 identity != authority T2 trust != authority T3 capability != permission T4 delegation cannot amplify T5 unverified evidence cannot raise trust T6 revoked identity cannot authorize T7 sybil != independent quorum T8 cross-domain trust != authority T9 reputation cannot override policy T10 model output cannot authorize T11 proof composition cannot amplify T12 governance state cannot roll back T13 invalid chains cannot become valid via federation T14 incident evidence preserves provenance T15 independent verification without the issuer impl", "description": "Evolution 12 formal trust invariants T1..T15, executable. T1 identity != authority T2 trust != authority T3 capability != permission T4 delegation cannot amplify T5 unverified evidence cannot raise trust T6 revoked identity cannot authorize T7 sybil != independent quorum T8 cross-domain trust != authority T9 reputation cannot override policy T10 model output cannot authorize T11 proof composition cannot amplify T12 governance state cannot roll back T13 invalid chains cannot become valid via federation T14 incident evidence preserves provenance T15 independent verification without the issuer impl It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 47, "slug": "p47", "name": "Evolution 12 formal trust invariants T1..T15, executable", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 242000, "source": "cain/govnetwork/invariants.py", "summary": "Evolution 12 formal trust invariants T1..T15, executable. T1 identity != authority T2 trust != authority T3 capability != permission T4 delegation cannot amplify T5 unverified evidence cannot raise trust T6 revoked identity cannot authorize T7 sybil != independent quorum T8 cross-domain trust != authority T9 reputation cannot override policy T10 model output cannot authorize T11 proof composition cannot amplify T12 governance state cannot roll back T13 invalid chains cannot become valid via federation T14 incident evidence preserves provenance T15 independent verification without the issuer impl", "description": "Evolution 12 formal trust invariants T1..T15, executable. T1 identity != authority T2 trust != authority T3 capability != permission T4 delegation cannot amplify T5 unverified evidence cannot raise trust T6 revoked identity cannot authorize T7 sybil != independent quorum T8 cross-domain trust != authority T9 reputation cannot override policy T10 model output cannot authorize T11 proof composition cannot amplify T12 governance state cannot roll back T13 invalid chains cannot become valid via federation T14 incident evidence preserves provenance T15 independent verification without the issuer impl It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 48, "slug": "p48", "name": "E32 Global Trust Settlement core", "kind": "the governance runtime", "domain": "GOVERNANCE_RUNTIME", "model": "Governed-action metering (per action)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.002/action", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 242000, "source": "cain/govtrustnet/core.py", "summary": "E32 Global Trust Settlement core. Reuses E30 (cross-domain governance, local enforcement) and E31 (proofs, computed quorum). Adds bounded machine-verifiable trust: GTSO, TrustContract, trust levels, non-amplifying propagation, attenuation, revocation, and TrustSettlementRecord. TRUST MUST BE BOUNDED.", "description": "E32 Global Trust Settlement core. Reuses E30 (cross-domain governance, local enforcement) and E31 (proofs, computed quorum). Adds bounded machine-verifiable trust: GTSO, TrustContract, trust levels, non-amplifying propagation, attenuation, revocation, and TrustSettlementRecord. TRUST MUST BE BOUNDED. It sits in the governance runtime and is productized as Governed-action metering (per action), charged at $0.0005-$0.002/action (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 49, "slug": "p49", "name": "Evolution 15: Spatial + Physical Autonomous Intelligence Fabric", "kind": "physical-AI and world-model governance", "domain": "PHYSICAL_AI_AND_WORLD_MODELS", "model": "Actuation-command guard (per command)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/command", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 241000, "source": "cain45/l5/spatial_physical.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 15: Spatial + Physical Autonomous Intelligence Fabric. CAIN-42 DOES NOT NEED TO BECOME THE WORLD MODEL. CAIN-42 GOVERNS THE TRUST PATH BETWEEN WHAT A SYSTEM PERCEIVES, WHAT IT BELIEVES, WHAT IT PROPOSES, WHAT IT IS CAPABLE OF, WHAT CONSEQUENCES MAY RESULT, WHAT IT IS AUTHORIZED TO DO, AND WHAT THE PHYSICAL WORLD ACTUALLY EXPERIENCES. E15 is the first physical/spatial governance layer.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 15: Spatial + Physical Autonomous Intelligence Fabric. CAIN-42 DOES NOT NEED TO BECOME THE WORLD MODEL. CAIN-42 GOVERNS THE TRUST PATH BETWEEN WHAT A SYSTEM PERCEIVES, WHAT IT BELIEVES, WHAT IT PROPOSES, WHAT IT IS CAPABLE OF, WHAT CONSEQUENCES MAY RESULT, WHAT IT IS AUTHORIZED TO DO, AND WHAT THE PHYSICAL WORLD ACTUALLY EXPERIENCES. E15 is the first physical/spatial governance layer. It sits in physical-AI and world-model governance and is productized as Actuation-command guard (per command), charged at $0.001-$0.01/command (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 50, "slug": "p50", "name": "Evolution 14: Governed Capability, Skill & Tool Supply-Chain Fabric", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 241000, "source": "cain45/l5/capability.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 14: Governed Capability, Skill & Tool Supply-Chain Fabric. A CAPABILITY IS A POWER SURFACE. CAPABILITY DISCOVERY != CAPABILITY TRUST != CAPABILITY AUTHORITY != EXECUTION AUTHORIZATION. A TOOL / SKILL / PLUGIN / CONNECTOR / MODEL / CREDENTIAL IS NOT AUTHORITY.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 14: Governed Capability, Skill & Tool Supply-Chain Fabric. A CAPABILITY IS A POWER SURFACE. CAPABILITY DISCOVERY != CAPABILITY TRUST != CAPABILITY AUTHORITY != EXECUTION AUTHORIZATION. A TOOL / SKILL / PLUGIN / CONNECTOR / MODEL / CREDENTIAL IS NOT AUTHORITY. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 51, "slug": "p51", "name": "Evolution 17: Governed Multi-Agent World Action Fabric", "kind": "physical-AI and world-model governance", "domain": "PHYSICAL_AI_AND_WORLD_MODELS", "model": "Actuation-command guard (per command)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/command", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 240000, "source": "cain45/l5/collective_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 17: Governed Multi-Agent World Action Fabric. DIGITAL + PHYSICAL + HYBRID AGENTS -> IDENTITY -> PROVENANCE -> COLLECTIVE FORMATION -> MISSION -> COMMUNICATION -> PERCEPTION/EVIDENCE -> WORLD STATE (spatial / temporal / causal) -> COLLECTIVE WORLD STATE -> PREDICTION -> COUNTERFACTUAL -> NEGOTIATION -> COLLECTIVE DECISION -> CAPABILITY -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> TRAJECTORY -> CONSEQUENCE -> COLLECTIVE BLAST RADIUS -> AUTHORIZATION -> E8 GOVERNANCE KERNEL -> MCPGATE / GOVERNED EXECUTION -> DIGITAL/PHYSICAL ACTION -> OBSERVATION -> REVALIDATION -> COLLECTIVE HEALTH -> CONTAINMENT / RECOVERY -> EVIDENCE -> CONTINUOUS GOVERNANCE E17 is a strict extension of E10 (collectiv", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 17: Governed Multi-Agent World Action Fabric. DIGITAL + PHYSICAL + HYBRID AGENTS -> IDENTITY -> PROVENANCE -> COLLECTIVE FORMATION -> MISSION -> COMMUNICATION -> PERCEPTION/EVIDENCE -> WORLD STATE (spatial / temporal / causal) -> COLLECTIVE WORLD STATE -> PREDICTION -> COUNTERFACTUAL -> NEGOTIATION -> COLLECTIVE DECISION -> CAPABILITY -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> TRAJECTORY -> CONSEQUENCE -> COLLECTIVE BLAST RADIUS -> AUTHORIZATION -> E8 GOVERNANCE KERNEL -> MCPGATE / GOVERNED EXECUTION -> DIGITAL/PHYSICAL ACTION -> OBSERVATION -> REVALIDATION -> COLLECTIVE HEALTH -> CONTAINMENT / RECOVERY -> EVIDENCE -> CONTINUOUS GOVERNANCE E17 is a strict extension of E10 (collectiv It sits in physical-AI and world-model governance and is productized as Actuation-command guard (per command), charged at $0.001-$0.01/command (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 52, "slug": "p52", "name": "Evolution 27: Agentic Internet Control Plane", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 240000, "source": "cain45/l5/control_plane.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 27: Agentic Internet Control Plane. E27 is a strict extension of E25 and E26. It coordinates identity, discovery, attestation, trust, authorization, delegation, policy, risk, routing, execution, evidence, revocation, incident response, simulation and evaluation across heterogeneous agents, tools and services -- without letting any of those activities create authority. DISCOVER -> IDENTIFY -> ATTEST -> ESTABLISH TRUST -> DECLARE INTENT -> DISCOVER CAPABILITY -> NEGOTIATE -> DELEGATE -> AUTHORIZE -> BIND TRANSACTION -> ENFORCE -> EXECUTE -> OBSERVE -> VERIFY -> FINALIZE -> EVIDENCE -> REVOKE -> RECOVER -> LEARN -> EVOLVE -> REAUTHORIZE DISCOVERY IS NOT AUTHORITY.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 27: Agentic Internet Control Plane. E27 is a strict extension of E25 and E26. It coordinates identity, discovery, attestation, trust, authorization, delegation, policy, risk, routing, execution, evidence, revocation, incident response, simulation and evaluation across heterogeneous agents, tools and services -- without letting any of those activities create authority. DISCOVER -> IDENTIFY -> ATTEST -> ESTABLISH TRUST -> DECLARE INTENT -> DISCOVER CAPABILITY -> NEGOTIATE -> DELEGATE -> AUTHORIZE -> BIND TRANSACTION -> ENFORCE -> EXECUTE -> OBSERVE -> VERIFY -> FINALIZE -> EVIDENCE -> REVOKE -> RECOVER -> LEARN -> EVOLVE -> REAUTHORIZE DISCOVERY IS NOT AUTHORITY. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 53, "slug": "p53", "name": "Evolution 24: Governed Agentic Internet Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 239000, "source": "cain45/l5/net_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 24: Governed Agentic Internet Fabric. ORGANIZATION -> TRUST DOMAIN -> AGENT IDENTITY -> DISCOVERY -> CAPABILITY CLAIM -> TRUST VECTOR -> NEGOTIATION -> CONTRACT -> DELEGATION -> CROSS-DOMAIN AUTHORITY -> PROTOCOL ADAPTER (A2A / MCP / HTTP / computer-use ...) -> E24 VERDICTS -> E19 ACTION CONTRACT -> E8 COMMIT -> EVIDENCE -> INCIDENT MESH / REVOCATION / QUARANTINE E24 governs autonomous agents that belong to DIFFERENT organizations and trust domains and interact over existing protocols. It does not replace A2A, MCP, HTTP or any identity, payment or cloud system; it governs the trust, authority, provenance, negotiation, delegation, capability, transaction and execution bounda", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 24: Governed Agentic Internet Fabric. ORGANIZATION -> TRUST DOMAIN -> AGENT IDENTITY -> DISCOVERY -> CAPABILITY CLAIM -> TRUST VECTOR -> NEGOTIATION -> CONTRACT -> DELEGATION -> CROSS-DOMAIN AUTHORITY -> PROTOCOL ADAPTER (A2A / MCP / HTTP / computer-use ...) -> E24 VERDICTS -> E19 ACTION CONTRACT -> E8 COMMIT -> EVIDENCE -> INCIDENT MESH / REVOCATION / QUARANTINE E24 governs autonomous agents that belong to DIFFERENT organizations and trust domains and interact over existing protocols. It does not replace A2A, MCP, HTTP or any identity, payment or cloud system; it governs the trust, authority, provenance, negotiation, delegation, capability, transaction and execution bounda It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 54, "slug": "p54", "name": "Evolution 24: Governed Agentic Internet Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 239000, "source": "cain45/l5/net_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 24: Governed Agentic Internet Fabric. ORGANIZATION -> TRUST DOMAIN -> AGENT IDENTITY -> DISCOVERY -> CAPABILITY CLAIM -> TRUST VECTOR -> NEGOTIATION -> CONTRACT -> DELEGATION -> CROSS-DOMAIN AUTHORITY -> PROTOCOL ADAPTER (A2A / MCP / HTTP / computer-use ...) -> E24 VERDICTS -> E19 ACTION CONTRACT -> E8 COMMIT -> EVIDENCE -> INCIDENT MESH / REVOCATION / QUARANTINE E24 governs autonomous agents that belong to DIFFERENT organizations and trust domains and interact over existing protocols. It does not replace A2A, MCP, HTTP or any identity, payment or cloud system; it governs the trust, authority, provenance, negotiation, delegation, capability, transaction and execution bounda", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 24: Governed Agentic Internet Fabric. ORGANIZATION -> TRUST DOMAIN -> AGENT IDENTITY -> DISCOVERY -> CAPABILITY CLAIM -> TRUST VECTOR -> NEGOTIATION -> CONTRACT -> DELEGATION -> CROSS-DOMAIN AUTHORITY -> PROTOCOL ADAPTER (A2A / MCP / HTTP / computer-use ...) -> E24 VERDICTS -> E19 ACTION CONTRACT -> E8 COMMIT -> EVIDENCE -> INCIDENT MESH / REVOCATION / QUARANTINE E24 governs autonomous agents that belong to DIFFERENT organizations and trust domains and interact over existing protocols. It does not replace A2A, MCP, HTTP or any identity, payment or cloud system; it governs the trust, authority, provenance, negotiation, delegation, capability, transaction and execution bounda It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 55, "slug": "p55", "name": "Pillar 5: Trifecta Monopolization, NHI Lifecycle, Guarded Metering & Confidential Enclaves", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 239000, "source": "cain/cain_trifecta_monopoly.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Pillar 5: Trifecta Monopolization, NHI Lifecycle, Guarded Metering & Confidential Enclaves Solidifies CAIN's three operational surfaces: 1. cainstudio.online: Managed cloud runtime, tenant dashboard, and guarded utility metering ($0.0005 - $0.0020). 2. mcpgate.online: Sovereign appliance with confidential computing hardware remote attestation (SGX, SEV-SNP, Nitro).", "description": "CAIN-42 Pillar 5: Trifecta Monopolization, NHI Lifecycle, Guarded Metering & Confidential Enclaves Solidifies CAIN's three operational surfaces: 1. cainstudio.online: Managed cloud runtime, tenant dashboard, and guarded utility metering ($0.0005 - $0.0020). 2. mcpgate.online: Sovereign appliance with confidential computing hardware remote attestation (SGX, SEV-SNP, Nitro). It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 56, "slug": "p56", "name": "Continuous Governance Attestation (IP Evolution 10, 2026-10-04)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 238000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_governance_attestation.py", "summary": "CAIN Continuous Governance Attestation (IP Evolution 10, 2026-10-04). \"A governance decision verified yesterday is not automatically verified today.\" Scope: the Governance Contract Fabric over the four in-window products (RIG, OpenShell, MemVault, SCITT) and the code that decides for it. The other Frontier-20 products are out of scope (30-day four-product directive). WHAT decide() ALREADY ENFORCES PER INVOCATION (and this module does not duplicate): identity substitution, revoked/missing RIG chain, authority amplification, declared model/runtime substitution, environment digest (python minor, machine, adapter set), product policy digest, governance epoch, validity window.", "description": "CAIN Continuous Governance Attestation (IP Evolution 10, 2026-10-04). \"A governance decision verified yesterday is not automatically verified today.\" Scope: the Governance Contract Fabric over the four in-window products (RIG, OpenShell, MemVault, SCITT) and the code that decides for it. The other Frontier-20 products are out of scope (30-day four-product directive). WHAT decide() ALREADY ENFORCES PER INVOCATION (and this module does not duplicate): identity substitution, revoked/missing RIG chain, authority amplification, declared model/runtime substitution, environment digest (python minor, machine, adapter set), product policy digest, governance epoch, validity window. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 57, "slug": "p57", "name": "The deterministic Authority Ledger: the replicated state machine behind the Authority Cont", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 238000, "source": "cain/acp/ledger.py", "summary": "The deterministic Authority Ledger: the replicated state machine behind the Authority Continuity Protocol. Every honest replica applies the same committed transitions in the same (PBFT) order and therefore reaches the same state, the same outcome for every transition, and the same head hash. The ledger never reads a wall clock, a random source, the network, or anything outside (state, transition). Each transition is *validated at apply time* against the state it is ordered after.", "description": "The deterministic Authority Ledger: the replicated state machine behind the Authority Continuity Protocol. Every honest replica applies the same committed transitions in the same (PBFT) order and therefore reaches the same state, the same outcome for every transition, and the same head hash. The ledger never reads a wall clock, a random source, the network, or anything outside (state, transition). Each transition is *validated at apply time* against the state it is ordered after. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 58, "slug": "p58", "name": "Trust Runtime Kernel \u2014 Zero-Trust Kernel Self-Defense Subsystem", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 237000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_kernel_self_defense.py", "summary": "CAIN Trust Runtime Kernel \u2014 Zero-Trust Kernel Self-Defense Subsystem Strategic Role: Zero-Trust Defense-in-Depth & Anti-Tamper Hardening for the Trust Runtime Itself Canonical Architecture: Moats 1-7 Unified Runtime Self-Protection (Phases 19-20) Version: 2.0.0-self-defense Threat Model & Core Defenses: 1. Threat: Compromised Administrator / Coerced Single Keyholder Defense: Dual-Custody Two-Person Cryptographic Engine (DualCustodyEngine). Irreversible administrative actions (unquarantine, key rotation, manifest updates, trust reset) require 2 distinct, non-revoked root Ed25519 keys signing canonical RFC 8785 proposal bytes.", "description": "CAIN Trust Runtime Kernel \u2014 Zero-Trust Kernel Self-Defense Subsystem Strategic Role: Zero-Trust Defense-in-Depth & Anti-Tamper Hardening for the Trust Runtime Itself Canonical Architecture: Moats 1-7 Unified Runtime Self-Protection (Phases 19-20) Version: 2.0.0-self-defense Threat Model & Core Defenses: 1. Threat: Compromised Administrator / Coerced Single Keyholder Defense: Dual-Custody Two-Person Cryptographic Engine (DualCustodyEngine). Irreversible administrative actions (unquarantine, key rotation, manifest updates, trust reset) require 2 distinct, non-revoked root Ed25519 keys signing canonical RFC 8785 proposal bytes. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 59, "slug": "p59", "name": "IP Evolution 12: governance conformance engine, result model, replay and differential (202", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 237000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_governance_conformance.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 IP Evolution 12: governance conformance engine, result model, replay and differential (2026-10-04). What this is: a library-level conformance suite that drives the REAL contract fabric (RIG, OpenShell, MemVault, SCITT, the E8 commit boundary) in a throw-away directory and checks governance SEMANTICS: identity, authority, capability, policy, contract, delegation, revocation, tenant isolation, replay, stale state, execution binding, evidence, auditor verification, protocol translation, model and runtime substitution, fail-closed and unknown handling. Each vector has a declarative input, an expected outcome and the observed outcome. What it is NOT: a certification, an audit or third-par", "description": "CAIN-42 IP Evolution 12: governance conformance engine, result model, replay and differential (2026-10-04). What this is: a library-level conformance suite that drives the REAL contract fabric (RIG, OpenShell, MemVault, SCITT, the E8 commit boundary) in a throw-away directory and checks governance SEMANTICS: identity, authority, capability, policy, contract, delegation, revocation, tenant isolation, replay, stale state, execution binding, evidence, auditor verification, protocol translation, model and runtime substitution, fail-closed and unknown handling. Each vector has a declarative input, an expected outcome and the observed outcome. What it is NOT: a certification, an audit or third-par It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 60, "slug": "p60", "name": "Replicated governance state machine (control plane)", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 237000, "source": "cain/govruntime/ledger.py", "summary": "Replicated governance state machine (control plane). Every change to authoritative governance state is an *operation* that becomes authoritative only when >= 2f+1 replicas have signed the same (height, parent_root, op_digest, post_root) statement. Honest replicas: * validate every op deterministically against their own copy of the state (authority, attenuation, budget availability, epoch, revocation, nonce freshness, signatures) and refuse to vote otherwise; * vote for at most ONE op per height (the per-height lock). Two conflicting QCs at one height would need 2(2f+1) - (3f+1) = f+1 double-voting replicas, i.e.", "description": "Replicated governance state machine (control plane). Every change to authoritative governance state is an *operation* that becomes authoritative only when >= 2f+1 replicas have signed the same (height, parent_root, op_digest, post_root) statement. Honest replicas: * validate every op deterministically against their own copy of the state (authority, attenuation, budget availability, epoch, revocation, nonce freshness, signatures) and refuse to vote otherwise; * vote for at most ONE op per height (the per-height lock). Two conflicting QCs at one height would need 2(2f+1) - (3f+1) = f+1 double-voting replicas, i.e. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 61, "slug": "p61", "name": "Evolution 37: the execution mesh runtime -- the orchestrator that makes it one path", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 236000, "source": "cain45/l5/execution_mesh_runtime.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 37: the execution mesh runtime -- the orchestrator that makes it one path. `CAINExecutionMesh` connects IDENTITY -> CAPABILITY -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> CONTEXT -> EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT -> ACTION -> E8 -> ENFORCEMENT -> OUTCOME -> PROOF -> REASSESSMENT and does it over the real stack: the action is executed by the E33 `CAINGovernedMachineOperationKernel` (deterministic kernel + E28 identity + E25 sealed executor + E8 ActionCommitBoundary), its E34 `GovernanceProofEnvelope` is issued by the E34 fabric, and E37 binds that envelope to an execution identity, an epoch, an environment passport (a real measurement of this host), a runtime admission decision, a coverage map, a sign", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 37: the execution mesh runtime -- the orchestrator that makes it one path. `CAINExecutionMesh` connects IDENTITY -> CAPABILITY -> AUTHORITY -> POLICY -> CONTEXT -> EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT -> ACTION -> E8 -> ENFORCEMENT -> OUTCOME -> PROOF -> REASSESSMENT and does it over the real stack: the action is executed by the E33 `CAINGovernedMachineOperationKernel` (deterministic kernel + E28 identity + E25 sealed executor + E8 ActionCommitBoundary), its E34 `GovernanceProofEnvelope` is issued by the E34 fabric, and E37 binds that envelope to an execution identity, an epoch, an environment passport (a real measurement of this host), a runtime admission decision, a coverage map, a sign It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 62, "slug": "p62", "name": "AGI Control Experiment -- the CAIN control boundary", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 236000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_agi_control_boundary.py", "summary": "CAIN AGI Control Experiment -- the CAIN control boundary. Routes every `AgentProposal` from `cain_agi_agent.py` through the REAL existing enforcement substrate (identity_engine, runtime_policies, trust_state, cain_proof_carrying_decision, mcp_runtime.MCPGate, cain_last_mile_enforcement) before anything is allowed to touch even a sandboxed tool. Nothing here is mocked; every dependency is the actual production module, imported directly. Doctrine enforced by construction, not by convention: CAIN DECIDES.", "description": "CAIN AGI Control Experiment -- the CAIN control boundary. Routes every `AgentProposal` from `cain_agi_agent.py` through the REAL existing enforcement substrate (identity_engine, runtime_policies, trust_state, cain_proof_carrying_decision, mcp_runtime.MCPGate, cain_last_mile_enforcement) before anything is allowed to touch even a sandboxed tool. Nothing here is mocked; every dependency is the actual production module, imported directly. Doctrine enforced by construction, not by convention: CAIN DECIDES. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 63, "slug": "p63", "name": "AGI Control Experiment -- the CAIN control boundary", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 236000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_agi_control_boundary.py", "summary": "CAIN AGI Control Experiment -- the CAIN control boundary. Routes every `AgentProposal` from `cain_agi_agent.py` through the REAL existing enforcement substrate (identity_engine, runtime_policies, trust_state, cain_proof_carrying_decision, mcp_runtime.MCPGate, cain_last_mile_enforcement) before anything is allowed to touch even a sandboxed tool. Nothing here is mocked; every dependency is the actual production module, imported directly. Doctrine enforced by construction, not by convention: CAIN DECIDES.", "description": "CAIN AGI Control Experiment -- the CAIN control boundary. Routes every `AgentProposal` from `cain_agi_agent.py` through the REAL existing enforcement substrate (identity_engine, runtime_policies, trust_state, cain_proof_carrying_decision, mcp_runtime.MCPGate, cain_last_mile_enforcement) before anything is allowed to touch even a sandboxed tool. Nothing here is mocked; every dependency is the actual production module, imported directly. Doctrine enforced by construction, not by convention: CAIN DECIDES. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 64, "slug": "p64", "name": "Compound Adversarial Simulator 2.0 (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 235000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_adversarial_simulator_v2.py", "summary": "CAIN Compound Adversarial Simulator 2.0 (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Multi-Vector Compound Attack Generator for Cross-Component Defense Testing. Canonical Invariant: ATTACK COMBINATIONS, NOT ONLY ISOLATED CONTROLS. NO COMPOUND BYPASS MAY SUCCEED BETWEEN OTHERWISE-CORRECT COMPONENTS. Compound Attack Campaigns: 1.", "description": "CAIN Compound Adversarial Simulator 2.0 (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Multi-Vector Compound Attack Generator for Cross-Component Defense Testing. Canonical Invariant: ATTACK COMBINATIONS, NOT ONLY ISOLATED CONTROLS. NO COMPOUND BYPASS MAY SUCCEED BETWEEN OTHERWISE-CORRECT COMPONENTS. Compound Attack Campaigns: 1. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 65, "slug": "p65", "name": "Compound Adversarial Simulator 2.0 (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 235000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_adversarial_simulator_v2.py", "summary": "CAIN Compound Adversarial Simulator 2.0 (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Multi-Vector Compound Attack Generator for Cross-Component Defense Testing. Canonical Invariant: ATTACK COMBINATIONS, NOT ONLY ISOLATED CONTROLS. NO COMPOUND BYPASS MAY SUCCEED BETWEEN OTHERWISE-CORRECT COMPONENTS. Compound Attack Campaigns: 1.", "description": "CAIN Compound Adversarial Simulator 2.0 (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Multi-Vector Compound Attack Generator for Cross-Component Defense Testing. Canonical Invariant: ATTACK COMBINATIONS, NOT ONLY ISOLATED CONTROLS. NO COMPOUND BYPASS MAY SUCCEED BETWEEN OTHERWISE-CORRECT COMPONENTS. Compound Attack Campaigns: 1. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 66, "slug": "p66", "name": "Cluster-of-clusters anchoring for independent CAIN-42 PBFT deployments", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 235000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain42_federation.py", "summary": "Cluster-of-clusters anchoring for independent CAIN-42 PBFT deployments. Each member cluster is a PBFT cluster in its own right (n = 4, f = 1, quorum 3). The federation never sees a cluster's transactions. What crosses a cluster boundary is an ANCHOR: the cluster id, its membership configuration hash, a committed sequence number and the decision-chain hash at that sequence, all taken from a commit quorum certificate the receiver verifies itself against the cluster's pinned membership.", "description": "Cluster-of-clusters anchoring for independent CAIN-42 PBFT deployments. Each member cluster is a PBFT cluster in its own right (n = 4, f = 1, quorum 3). The federation never sees a cluster's transactions. What crosses a cluster boundary is an ANCHOR: the cluster id, its membership configuration hash, a committed sequence number and the decision-chain hash at that sequence, all taken from a commit quorum certificate the receiver verifies itself against the cluster's pinned membership. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 67, "slug": "p67", "name": "Epoch 8: Autonomous Trust Singularity & Continuous Proof Fabric", "kind": "cryptographic evidence and notarization", "domain": "CRYPTOGRAPHIC_EVIDENCE", "model": "Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary", "price": "$0.005-$0.02/tx", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 234000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_continuous_proof_42.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Epoch 8: Autonomous Trust Singularity & Continuous Proof Fabric TRUST MUST BE CONTINUOUSLY RE-EARNED, NOT PERMANENTLY ASSUMED. ContinuousTrust (8.1/8.7) T(t): per-(entity,domain) factors that decay, go stale, recover only slowly MicroEpochChain (8.2) signed, hash-chained state transitions bound to a Merkle state root TrustLineage (8.3) \"why is this trusted?\" graph + laundering/circularity/escalation audits DebtLedger (8.4) TRUST_DEBT / EVIDENCE_DEBT: append-only, resolvable only with evidence DriftEngine (8.5) EXPECTED vs UNAUTHORIZED vs UNKNOWN change (unknown is never safe) BehavioralBaseline (8.6) anomaly = e", "description": "CAIN-42 Epoch 8: Autonomous Trust Singularity & Continuous Proof Fabric TRUST MUST BE CONTINUOUSLY RE-EARNED, NOT PERMANENTLY ASSUMED. ContinuousTrust (8.1/8.7) T(t): per-(entity,domain) factors that decay, go stale, recover only slowly MicroEpochChain (8.2) signed, hash-chained state transitions bound to a Merkle state root TrustLineage (8.3) \"why is this trusted?\" graph + laundering/circularity/escalation audits DebtLedger (8.4) TRUST_DEBT / EVIDENCE_DEBT: append-only, resolvable only with evidence DriftEngine (8.5) EXPECTED vs UNAUTHORIZED vs UNKNOWN change (unknown is never safe) BehavioralBaseline (8.6) anomaly = e It sits in cryptographic evidence and notarization and is productized as Transparency-log / SCITT clearinghouse notary, charged at $0.005-$0.02/tx (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 68, "slug": "p68", "name": "Epoch 13 (phases 1-4, 6, 43-44, 50, 52) built as measured, tested code: * EpistemicQuorumC", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 234000, "source": "clawx/control_plane/epistemic.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Epoch 13 (phases 1-4, 6, 43-44, 50, 52) built as measured, tested code: * EpistemicQuorumCertificate verification: a quorum is VALID only if consensus AND evidence AND authority AND state AND independent-verifier AND INDEPENDENCE all hold. Agreement alone is rejected for critical classes (\"QUORUM AGREEMENT != SEMANTIC TRUTH\"). * Validator diversity: correlation is MEASURED from declared profiles and, better, from observed fault histories (phi coefficient); it is never assumed. * Epistemic BFT experiment: Monte Carlo of false-quorum probability vs N, number of independent model families, common-mode fault probability, with/without an independent semantic verifier.", "description": "CAIN-42 Epoch 13 (phases 1-4, 6, 43-44, 50, 52) built as measured, tested code: * EpistemicQuorumCertificate verification: a quorum is VALID only if consensus AND evidence AND authority AND state AND independent-verifier AND INDEPENDENCE all hold. Agreement alone is rejected for critical classes (\"QUORUM AGREEMENT != SEMANTIC TRUTH\"). * Validator diversity: correlation is MEASURED from declared profiles and, better, from observed fault histories (phi coefficient); it is never assumed. * Epistemic BFT experiment: Monte Carlo of false-quorum probability vs N, number of independent model families, common-mode fault probability, with/without an independent semantic verifier. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 69, "slug": "p69", "name": "E31 Byzantine Governance Proof Fabric (BGPF) core", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 233000, "source": "cain/govbgpf/core.py", "summary": "E31 Byzantine Governance Proof Fabric (BGPF) core. Reuses the shared canonical primitives (E11/E22). Adds the pieces the proof chain needs and that E11 did not own: a canonical GovernanceProofObject, composition that CANNOT amplify authority, an append-only proof chain with fork detection, a BFT quorum proof the verifier RECOMPUTES (never trusts a `quorum=true` flag), and an explicit Proof of Non-Authorization. A proof never creates authority; it proves authority that already exists.", "description": "E31 Byzantine Governance Proof Fabric (BGPF) core. Reuses the shared canonical primitives (E11/E22). Adds the pieces the proof chain needs and that E11 did not own: a canonical GovernanceProofObject, composition that CANNOT amplify authority, an append-only proof chain with fork detection, a BFT quorum proof the verifier RECOMPUTES (never trusts a `quorum=true` flag), and an explicit Proof of Non-Authorization. A proof never creates authority; it proves authority that already exists. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 70, "slug": "p70", "name": "Enforcement side of the fabric: authorization artifact, MCP boundary admission, scope lowe", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 233000, "source": "cain/govfabric/boundary.py", "summary": "Enforcement side of the fabric: authorization artifact, MCP boundary admission, scope lowering. AGENT -> CAIN (decide) -> Authorization -> McpBoundary.admit -> tool execution The Authorization is deliberately UNSIGNED and carries no authority of its own. It names the decision (request digest, program digest, certified roots, epoch, expiry). The boundary admits a call only if it can re-derive ALLOW itself from quorum-certified state it fetched through its own f+1 light-client reads.", "description": "Enforcement side of the fabric: authorization artifact, MCP boundary admission, scope lowering. AGENT -> CAIN (decide) -> Authorization -> McpBoundary.admit -> tool execution The Authorization is deliberately UNSIGNED and carries no authority of its own. It names the decision (request digest, program digest, certified roots, epoch, expiry). The boundary admits a call only if it can re-derive ALLOW itself from quorum-certified state it fetched through its own f+1 light-client reads. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 71, "slug": "p71", "name": "24 phases 14-17: signed state roots, an edge verifier with explicit modes, and revocation", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 232000, "source": "clawx/control_plane/mesh.py", "summary": "CLAWX 24 phases 14-17: signed state roots, an edge verifier with explicit modes, and revocation propagation. The control plane publishes a STATE ATTESTATION: a signed, hash-chained (parent_root) statement of the roots of its policy, grants, revocations, stops, contracts and trajectories, with a monotonic `seq`, an `epoch`, and an issue time. An EDGE holds only the pinned control-plane public key and the last attestation it accepted, and decides locally from that. Edge rules (deterministic, no LLM): * accept(): signature under the pinned key; sections re-derived from the inline data and compared with the signed roots; seq strictly increases; parent_root must equal the last accepted root (else", "description": "CLAWX 24 phases 14-17: signed state roots, an edge verifier with explicit modes, and revocation propagation. The control plane publishes a STATE ATTESTATION: a signed, hash-chained (parent_root) statement of the roots of its policy, grants, revocations, stops, contracts and trajectories, with a monotonic `seq`, an `epoch`, and an issue time. An EDGE holds only the pinned control-plane public key and the last attestation it accepted, and decides locally from that. Edge rules (deterministic, no LLM): * accept(): signature under the pinned key; sections re-derived from the inline data and compared with the signed roots; seq strictly increases; parent_root must equal the last accepted root (else It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 72, "slug": "p72", "name": "24 phases 14-17: signed state roots, an edge verifier with explicit modes, and revocation", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 232000, "source": "clawx/control_plane/mesh.py", "summary": "CLAWX 24 phases 14-17: signed state roots, an edge verifier with explicit modes, and revocation propagation. The control plane publishes a STATE ATTESTATION: a signed, hash-chained (parent_root) statement of the roots of its policy, grants, revocations, stops, contracts and trajectories, with a monotonic `seq`, an `epoch`, and an issue time. An EDGE holds only the pinned control-plane public key and the last attestation it accepted, and decides locally from that. Edge rules (deterministic, no LLM): * accept(): signature under the pinned key; sections re-derived from the inline data and compared with the signed roots; seq strictly increases; parent_root must equal the last accepted root (else", "description": "CLAWX 24 phases 14-17: signed state roots, an edge verifier with explicit modes, and revocation propagation. The control plane publishes a STATE ATTESTATION: a signed, hash-chained (parent_root) statement of the roots of its policy, grants, revocations, stops, contracts and trajectories, with a monotonic `seq`, an `epoch`, and an issue time. An EDGE holds only the pinned control-plane public key and the last attestation it accepted, and decides locally from that. Edge rules (deterministic, no LLM): * accept(): signature under the pinned key; sections re-derived from the inline data and compared with the signed roots; seq strictly increases; parent_root must equal the last accepted root (else It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 73, "slug": "p73", "name": "Evolution 12 Byzantine Network Attack Lab", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 232000, "source": "cain/trustnet/attacks.py", "summary": "Evolution 12 Byzantine Network Attack Lab. 26 automated, executable attack vectors testing identity, discovery, trust, authority, delegation, capability certificates, proofs, federation, revocation, reputation, and resource governance. Every test verifies that the attack is FAIL-CLOSED and blocked.", "description": "Evolution 12 Byzantine Network Attack Lab. 26 automated, executable attack vectors testing identity, discovery, trust, authority, delegation, capability certificates, proofs, federation, revocation, reputation, and resource governance. Every test verifies that the attack is FAIL-CLOSED and blocked. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 74, "slug": "p74", "name": "Check, on your own machine, that a decision was really ordered by a CAIN quorum", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 231000, "source": "sdk/python/src/cainstudio/verify.py", "summary": "Check, on your own machine, that a decision was really ordered by a CAIN quorum. The hosted gateway says \"ordered by 2f+1 replicas\". This module does not take its word for it, nor the word of the certificate: every signature is checked against replica keys PINNED IN THIS PACKAGE, never against keys a certificate or a website hands you (a forger can re-sign with keys of their own). cain = Cain() d = cain.decide(\"read_file\", {\"path\": \"README.md\"}) v = cain.verify(d) # fetches the certificate, checks it here v.verified # True / False; None while the certificate is pending for name, ok, why in v.checks: print(name, ok, why) Checks for a decision ordered by its own PBFT round: COMMITMENT the comm", "description": "Check, on your own machine, that a decision was really ordered by a CAIN quorum. The hosted gateway says \"ordered by 2f+1 replicas\". This module does not take its word for it, nor the word of the certificate: every signature is checked against replica keys PINNED IN THIS PACKAGE, never against keys a certificate or a website hands you (a forger can re-sign with keys of their own). cain = Cain() d = cain.decide(\"read_file\", {\"path\": \"README.md\"}) v = cain.verify(d) # fetches the certificate, checks it here v.verified # True / False; None while the certificate is pending for name, ok, why in v.checks: print(name, ok, why) Checks for a decision ordered by its own PBFT round: COMMITMENT the comm It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 75, "slug": "p75", "name": "E37 Byzantine Autonomous Federation -- core primitives", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 231000, "source": "cain/govfederation/core.py", "summary": "E37 Byzantine Autonomous Federation -- core primitives. Autonomous Federation Object (AFO) co-signed by BOTH sovereign domains (no shared governance root), sovereignty boundaries, cross-domain authority NON-amplification, a federation contract bounded by local authority, trust propagation attenuation, assurance bounding, verifier-diversity measurement, disputes (dispute is NOT approval) and N-way federation fork detection. Central invariant: NO CROSS-DOMAIN AGREEMENT CAN CREATE AUTHORITY THAT DID NOT ALREADY EXIST WITHIN THE PARTICIPATING GOVERNANCE DOMAINS. Nothing in this module authorizes anything; the receiving domain's `SovereignDomain` (domain.py) is the only place an action can be aut", "description": "E37 Byzantine Autonomous Federation -- core primitives. Autonomous Federation Object (AFO) co-signed by BOTH sovereign domains (no shared governance root), sovereignty boundaries, cross-domain authority NON-amplification, a federation contract bounded by local authority, trust propagation attenuation, assurance bounding, verifier-diversity measurement, disputes (dispute is NOT approval) and N-way federation fork detection. Central invariant: NO CROSS-DOMAIN AGREEMENT CAN CREATE AUTHORITY THAT DID NOT ALREADY EXIST WITHIN THE PARTICIPATING GOVERNANCE DOMAINS. Nothing in this module authorizes anything; the receiving domain's `SovereignDomain` (domain.py) is the only place an action can be aut It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 76, "slug": "p76", "name": "adversarial soak on the LIVE multi-region cluster cain-mr-01", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 230000, "source": "scripts/cain42_bft/multi_region_soak.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 adversarial soak on the LIVE multi-region cluster cain-mr-01. Successor of soak72.py (a single-host twin whose harness was OOM-killed at hour 24, after it found the split-view stall fixed in e1cf69c). This one soaks the real deployment: 4 replicas on 3 hosts in 3 regions. Continuously: a PBFT write every --interval s spread over all replicas; every --fault-every s a random replica (primary included) is killed ON ITS OWN HOST for 60 s and restarted -- never two at once, so a quorum always exists; an agreement check after every write.", "description": "CAIN-42 adversarial soak on the LIVE multi-region cluster cain-mr-01. Successor of soak72.py (a single-host twin whose harness was OOM-killed at hour 24, after it found the split-view stall fixed in e1cf69c). This one soaks the real deployment: 4 replicas on 3 hosts in 3 regions. Continuously: a PBFT write every --interval s spread over all replicas; every --fault-every s a random replica (primary included) is killed ON ITS OWN HOST for 60 s and restarted -- never two at once, so a quorum always exists; an agreement check after every write. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 77, "slug": "p77", "name": "Trust Provenance Graph (Trust Kernel 3.0)", "kind": "execution confinement", "domain": "EXECUTION_CONFINEMENT", "model": "Secure agent sandbox cloud (per run)", "price": "$0.01-$0.10/run", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 230000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_trust_provenance.py", "summary": "CAIN Trust Provenance Graph (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Second-Order Causal & Epistemic Provenance Graph for Autonomous AI Governance. Canonical Invariant: EVERY CONSEQUENTIAL DECISION MUST TRACE BACK TO VERIFIED EVIDENCE, AND EVERY EVIDENCE OBJECT MUST TRACE FORWARD TO THE DECISIONS IT INFLUENCED. Dual Graph Architecture: 1. Causal Execution Graph: Evidence -> Fact -> Trust Transition -> Decision -> Enforcement -> Effect -> Outcome -> New Evidence 2.", "description": "CAIN Trust Provenance Graph (Trust Kernel 3.0) Strategic Role: Second-Order Causal & Epistemic Provenance Graph for Autonomous AI Governance. Canonical Invariant: EVERY CONSEQUENTIAL DECISION MUST TRACE BACK TO VERIFIED EVIDENCE, AND EVERY EVIDENCE OBJECT MUST TRACE FORWARD TO THE DECISIONS IT INFLUENCED. Dual Graph Architecture: 1. Causal Execution Graph: Evidence -> Fact -> Trust Transition -> Decision -> Enforcement -> Effect -> Outcome -> New Evidence 2. It sits in execution confinement and is productized as Secure agent sandbox cloud (per run), charged at $0.01-$0.10/run (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 78, "slug": "p78", "name": "Epoch 6 -- World-State Integrity & Postcondition Reconciliation", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 229000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_world_state_42.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Epoch 6 -- World-State Integrity & Postcondition Reconciliation Closes the gap identified by forensic re-audit of Epoch 1-5 infrastructure: `cain_trust_state_machine_42.ActionTrustLifecycle.execute_mediated_action()` (Phase 6, Epoch 5) transitioned ENFORCED -> EXECUTED -> EVIDENCED the instant `action_fn()` returned without raising -- i.e. \"the tool call didn't throw\" was treated as sufficient evidence the action's real-world effect matched what was authorized. That is exactly the fault mode Epoch 6 exists to close: OBSERVATION (or a bare return value) must never silently become AUTHORITY/EVIDENCE. This module", "description": "CAIN-42 Epoch 6 -- World-State Integrity & Postcondition Reconciliation Closes the gap identified by forensic re-audit of Epoch 1-5 infrastructure: `cain_trust_state_machine_42.ActionTrustLifecycle.execute_mediated_action()` (Phase 6, Epoch 5) transitioned ENFORCED -> EXECUTED -> EVIDENCED the instant `action_fn()` returned without raising -- i.e. \"the tool call didn't throw\" was treated as sufficient evidence the action's real-world effect matched what was authorized. That is exactly the fault mode Epoch 6 exists to close: OBSERVATION (or a bare return value) must never silently become AUTHORITY/EVIDENCE. This module It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 79, "slug": "p79", "name": "Evolution 7: predictive consequence governance (restriction-only)", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 229000, "source": "cain45/l5/consequence_governance.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 7: predictive consequence governance (restriction-only). THE AGENT PROPOSES. CAIN-42 PREDICTS CONSEQUENCES. CAIN-42 BOUNDS AUTHORITY.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 7: predictive consequence governance (restriction-only). THE AGENT PROPOSES. CAIN-42 PREDICTS CONSEQUENCES. CAIN-42 BOUNDS AUTHORITY. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 80, "slug": "p80", "name": "Evolution 7: predictive consequence governance (restriction-only)", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 229000, "source": "cain45/l5/consequence_governance.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 7: predictive consequence governance (restriction-only). THE AGENT PROPOSES. CAIN-42 PREDICTS CONSEQUENCES. CAIN-42 BOUNDS AUTHORITY.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 7: predictive consequence governance (restriction-only). THE AGENT PROPOSES. CAIN-42 PREDICTS CONSEQUENCES. CAIN-42 BOUNDS AUTHORITY. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 81, "slug": "p81", "name": "agent identity interop \u2014 SPIFFE-style workload identity, OAuth token exchange, delegation", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 229000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_agent_identity.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 agent identity interop \u2014 SPIFFE-style workload identity, OAuth token exchange, delegation. Extends **Moat 2 (security-context continuity)**. It introduces no new moat. Motivation (audit finding; 2026 frontier standards): the hosted `/frontier/authorize` path trusted caller-supplied `agent`/`session`/`tenant` strings, so only the capability chain was cryptographically bound and the API caller was never authenticated to the subject.", "description": "CAIN-42 agent identity interop \u2014 SPIFFE-style workload identity, OAuth token exchange, delegation. Extends **Moat 2 (security-context continuity)**. It introduces no new moat. Motivation (audit finding; 2026 frontier standards): the hosted `/frontier/authorize` path trusted caller-supplied `agent`/`session`/`tenant` strings, so only the capability chain was cryptographically bound and the API caller was never authenticated to the subject. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 82, "slug": "p82", "name": "agent identity interop \u2014 SPIFFE-style workload identity, OAuth token exchange, delegation", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 229000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_agent_identity.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 agent identity interop \u2014 SPIFFE-style workload identity, OAuth token exchange, delegation. Extends **Moat 2 (security-context continuity)**. It introduces no new moat. Motivation (audit finding; 2026 frontier standards): the hosted `/frontier/authorize` path trusted caller-supplied `agent`/`session`/`tenant` strings, so only the capability chain was cryptographically bound and the API caller was never authenticated to the subject.", "description": "CAIN-42 agent identity interop \u2014 SPIFFE-style workload identity, OAuth token exchange, delegation. Extends **Moat 2 (security-context continuity)**. It introduces no new moat. Motivation (audit finding; 2026 frontier standards): the hosted `/frontier/authorize` path trusted caller-supplied `agent`/`session`/`tenant` strings, so only the capability chain was cryptographically bound and the API caller was never authenticated to the subject. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 83, "slug": "p83", "name": "Epoch 6: Action Proof Object & Proof-Carrying Agency", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 228000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_action_proof_epoch6.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Epoch 6: Action Proof Object & Proof-Carrying Agency Section 7 & 21: Formal Action Proof Object and Verification Engine. Every consequential action carries a cryptographic proof package containing: - agent_identity - model_identity - tenant_identity - memory_provenance - observation_provenance - plan_hash - trajectory_hash - constitution_version - policy_version - trust_state - authority_scope - capability_hash - nonce - expiration - world_state_version - expected_effect - impact_classification - reversibility_classification - mcp_tool_identity - authorization_decision - quorum_evidence - execution_boundary - postcondition_", "description": "CAIN-42 Epoch 6: Action Proof Object & Proof-Carrying Agency Section 7 & 21: Formal Action Proof Object and Verification Engine. Every consequential action carries a cryptographic proof package containing: - agent_identity - model_identity - tenant_identity - memory_provenance - observation_provenance - plan_hash - trajectory_hash - constitution_version - policy_version - trust_state - authority_scope - capability_hash - nonce - expiration - world_state_version - expected_effect - impact_classification - reversibility_classification - mcp_tool_identity - authorization_decision - quorum_evidence - execution_boundary - postcondition_ It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 84, "slug": "p84", "name": "E40 hierarchical governance fabric (materialized form, for populations that fit in memory)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 228000, "source": "cain/gov40/hierarchy.py", "summary": "E40 hierarchical governance fabric (materialized form, for populations that fit in memory). Levels are arbitrary: [\"cell\", \"shard\", \"domain\", \"federation\", \"global\"] by default, but any list of >= 2 works. Each level node has an AUTHORITY ENVELOPE (capability set, risk ceiling, budget) and its own governance quorum whose keys are committed in the node root (so the parent's signature covers which keys may sign below it). Authority non-amplification: * a child's envelope must be <= its parent's at registration (checked; never auto-widened or auto-narrowed); * an agent's EFFECTIVE authority is the intersection of its own envelope with every envelope on its path, so no upper layer can grant anyt", "description": "E40 hierarchical governance fabric (materialized form, for populations that fit in memory). Levels are arbitrary: [\"cell\", \"shard\", \"domain\", \"federation\", \"global\"] by default, but any list of >= 2 works. Each level node has an AUTHORITY ENVELOPE (capability set, risk ceiling, budget) and its own governance quorum whose keys are committed in the node root (so the parent's signature covers which keys may sign below it). Authority non-amplification: * a child's envelope must be <= its parent's at registration (checked; never auto-widened or auto-narrowed); * an agent's EFFECTIVE authority is the intersection of its own envelope with every envelope on its path, so no upper layer can grant anyt It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 85, "slug": "p85", "name": "Formal Safety Invariants Checker", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 227000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_formal_invariants_42.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Formal Safety Invariants Checker Machine-Checkable Formal Safety Properties for all 25 CAIN-42 Invariants: INV-42-01: NO_UNAUTHORIZED_EXECUTION INV-42-02: NO_CONFLICTING_COMMIT INV-42-03: NO_INVALID_PROOF_ACCEPTANCE INV-42-04: NO_REPLAYED_AUTHORIZATION INV-42-05: NO_REVOKED_IDENTITY_AUTHORITY INV-42-06: NO_BUDGET_OVERSPEND INV-42-07: NO_DELEGATION_ESCALATION INV-42-08: NO_CONSTITUTION_BYPASS INV-42-09: NO_UNVERIFIED_SETTLEMENT INV-42-10: NO_FALSE_OUTCOME_ASSERTION INV-42-11: NO_DIRECT_MCP_BYPASS INV-42-12: NO_STALE_AUTHORIZATION_EXECUTION INV-42-13: NO_CROSS_TENANT_LEAKAGE INV-42-14: NO_SILENT_HISTORY_REWRITE INV-42-15: NO_VOTING_WITHOUT_MEMBE", "description": "CAIN-42 Formal Safety Invariants Checker Machine-Checkable Formal Safety Properties for all 25 CAIN-42 Invariants: INV-42-01: NO_UNAUTHORIZED_EXECUTION INV-42-02: NO_CONFLICTING_COMMIT INV-42-03: NO_INVALID_PROOF_ACCEPTANCE INV-42-04: NO_REPLAYED_AUTHORIZATION INV-42-05: NO_REVOKED_IDENTITY_AUTHORITY INV-42-06: NO_BUDGET_OVERSPEND INV-42-07: NO_DELEGATION_ESCALATION INV-42-08: NO_CONSTITUTION_BYPASS INV-42-09: NO_UNVERIFIED_SETTLEMENT INV-42-10: NO_FALSE_OUTCOME_ASSERTION INV-42-11: NO_DIRECT_MCP_BYPASS INV-42-12: NO_STALE_AUTHORIZATION_EXECUTION INV-42-13: NO_CROSS_TENANT_LEAKAGE INV-42-14: NO_SILENT_HISTORY_REWRITE INV-42-15: NO_VOTING_WITHOUT_MEMBE It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 86, "slug": "p86", "name": "Formal Safety Invariants Checker", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 227000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_formal_invariants_42.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Formal Safety Invariants Checker Machine-Checkable Formal Safety Properties for all 25 CAIN-42 Invariants: INV-42-01: NO_UNAUTHORIZED_EXECUTION INV-42-02: NO_CONFLICTING_COMMIT INV-42-03: NO_INVALID_PROOF_ACCEPTANCE INV-42-04: NO_REPLAYED_AUTHORIZATION INV-42-05: NO_REVOKED_IDENTITY_AUTHORITY INV-42-06: NO_BUDGET_OVERSPEND INV-42-07: NO_DELEGATION_ESCALATION INV-42-08: NO_CONSTITUTION_BYPASS INV-42-09: NO_UNVERIFIED_SETTLEMENT INV-42-10: NO_FALSE_OUTCOME_ASSERTION INV-42-11: NO_DIRECT_MCP_BYPASS INV-42-12: NO_STALE_AUTHORIZATION_EXECUTION INV-42-13: NO_CROSS_TENANT_LEAKAGE INV-42-14: NO_SILENT_HISTORY_REWRITE INV-42-15: NO_VOTING_WITHOUT_MEMBE", "description": "CAIN-42 Formal Safety Invariants Checker Machine-Checkable Formal Safety Properties for all 25 CAIN-42 Invariants: INV-42-01: NO_UNAUTHORIZED_EXECUTION INV-42-02: NO_CONFLICTING_COMMIT INV-42-03: NO_INVALID_PROOF_ACCEPTANCE INV-42-04: NO_REPLAYED_AUTHORIZATION INV-42-05: NO_REVOKED_IDENTITY_AUTHORITY INV-42-06: NO_BUDGET_OVERSPEND INV-42-07: NO_DELEGATION_ESCALATION INV-42-08: NO_CONSTITUTION_BYPASS INV-42-09: NO_UNVERIFIED_SETTLEMENT INV-42-10: NO_FALSE_OUTCOME_ASSERTION INV-42-11: NO_DIRECT_MCP_BYPASS INV-42-12: NO_STALE_AUTHORIZATION_EXECUTION INV-42-13: NO_CROSS_TENANT_LEAKAGE INV-42-14: NO_SILENT_HISTORY_REWRITE INV-42-15: NO_VOTING_WITHOUT_MEMBE It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 87, "slug": "p87", "name": "Machine-Readable Trust Constitution", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 227000, "source": "platform-gateway/cain_constitution_42.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Machine-Readable Trust Constitution Defines immutable security principles and constitutional rules across all 25 domains: 1. IDENTITY 2. AUTHORIZATION 3. POLICY 4.", "description": "CAIN-42 Machine-Readable Trust Constitution Defines immutable security principles and constitutional rules across all 25 domains: 1. IDENTITY 2. AUTHORIZATION 3. POLICY 4. It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 88, "slug": "p88", "name": "E38 CLEAN-ROOM MISSION VERIFIER (ZERO CAIN imports; stdlib + `cryptography` only)", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 226000, "source": "platform-gateway/frontend/proof/bundle/e38-byzantine-mission-integrity-2026-10-05/cleanroom/verify_e38.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 E38 CLEAN-ROOM MISSION VERIFIER (ZERO CAIN imports; stdlib + `cryptography` only). Re-implements from the written rules, not from CAIN code: canonical JSON + domain-separated SHA-256 digest + Ed25519 verification objective normalization, Objective Integrity Root, every MGO root, MGO signature goal root + attenuation (child <= parent on every axis) hash-chained event log and input journal integrity governance proof re-check: WHY was this action permitted (recomputed from the proof's own content) non-authorization proof integrity outcome verdict from observations (registered observers only) Same-project re-implementation by the same author family: it is a DIFFERENT implementation, NOT", "description": "CAIN-42 E38 CLEAN-ROOM MISSION VERIFIER (ZERO CAIN imports; stdlib + `cryptography` only). Re-implements from the written rules, not from CAIN code: canonical JSON + domain-separated SHA-256 digest + Ed25519 verification objective normalization, Objective Integrity Root, every MGO root, MGO signature goal root + attenuation (child <= parent on every axis) hash-chained event log and input journal integrity governance proof re-check: WHY was this action permitted (recomputed from the proof's own content) non-authorization proof integrity outcome verdict from observations (registered observers only) Same-project re-implementation by the same author family: it is a DIFFERENT implementation, NOT It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 89, "slug": "p89", "name": "Standalone verifier for a CAIN-42 Evolution 4 DAG cluster evidence bundle", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 225000, "source": "platform-gateway/frontend/proof/bundle/mcpgate-live-2026-09-27/verifiers/verify_dag_bundle.py", "summary": "Standalone verifier for a CAIN-42 Evolution 4 DAG cluster evidence bundle. No CAIN imports. Needs Python 3.8+, `cryptography`, and verify_pbft_qc_bundle.py (the standalone PBFT certificate verifier) in the same directory. python3 verify_dag_bundle.py DAG_CLUSTER_EVIDENCE.json Checks, from the bundle bytes only: * membership: configuration hash recomputed from member ids + Ed25519 keys; * every availability certificate in the last anchor's causal proof: the vertex is signed by its creator (a member), >= 3 distinct members signed the availability attestation for exactly that vertex and payload; * causal closure: every parent of every vertex is a certified vertex of the previous round inside th", "description": "Standalone verifier for a CAIN-42 Evolution 4 DAG cluster evidence bundle. No CAIN imports. Needs Python 3.8+, `cryptography`, and verify_pbft_qc_bundle.py (the standalone PBFT certificate verifier) in the same directory. python3 verify_dag_bundle.py DAG_CLUSTER_EVIDENCE.json Checks, from the bundle bytes only: * membership: configuration hash recomputed from member ids + Ed25519 keys; * every availability certificate in the last anchor's causal proof: the vertex is signed by its creator (a member), >= 3 distinct members signed the availability attestation for exactly that vertex and payload; * causal closure: every parent of every vertex is a certified vertex of the previous round inside th It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 90, "slug": "p90", "name": "Evolution 03 \u2014 canonical Byzantine Governance State, state machine and state root", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 225000, "source": "cain/govkernel/state.py", "summary": "Evolution 03 \u2014 canonical Byzantine Governance State, state machine and state root. A single authoritative governance state across 21 dimensions, with deterministic serialization so identical valid inputs produce identical state commitments. Every transition follows PROPOSE \u2192 VALIDATE \u2192 PREPARE \u2192 QUORUM \u2192 COMMIT \u2192 STATE_ROOT \u2192 EVIDENCE. Quorum (fixed 2026-10-05, F-E03-1): the first version of this module accepted a caller-written dict {\"valid\": True, \"signers\": [...], \"threshold\": k} as a quorum, so one node could commit any state (and choose threshold=1).", "description": "Evolution 03 \u2014 canonical Byzantine Governance State, state machine and state root. A single authoritative governance state across 21 dimensions, with deterministic serialization so identical valid inputs produce identical state commitments. Every transition follows PROPOSE \u2192 VALIDATE \u2192 PREPARE \u2192 QUORUM \u2192 COMMIT \u2192 STATE_ROOT \u2192 EVIDENCE. Quorum (fixed 2026-10-05, F-E03-1): the first version of this module accepted a caller-written dict {\"valid\": True, \"signers\": [...], \"threshold\": k} as a quorum, so one node could commit any state (and choose threshold=1). It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 91, "slug": "p91", "name": "Evolution 20: Governed Agentic Civilization Fabric (machine-native institutions)", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 224000, "source": "cain45/l5/institution_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 20: Governed Agentic Civilization Fabric (machine-native institutions). AGENT -> COLLECTIVE -> ORGANIZATION -> INSTITUTION -> MISSION -> ECONOMIC / RESOURCE ACTIVITY -> CROSS-INSTITUTION COORDINATION -> REAL-WORLD EFFECT E20 governs networks of agents that behave collectively as institutions: they form organizations, accept missions, admit members, delegate, negotiate contracts, hold and move resources, spawn bounded subagents, federate, dispute, evolve and dissolve. Every level stays subordinate to explicit governance. Core law: AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATION != AUTONOMOUS AUTHORITY.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 20: Governed Agentic Civilization Fabric (machine-native institutions). AGENT -> COLLECTIVE -> ORGANIZATION -> INSTITUTION -> MISSION -> ECONOMIC / RESOURCE ACTIVITY -> CROSS-INSTITUTION COORDINATION -> REAL-WORLD EFFECT E20 governs networks of agents that behave collectively as institutions: they form organizations, accept missions, admit members, delegate, negotiate contracts, hold and move resources, spawn bounded subagents, federate, dispute, evolve and dissolve. Every level stays subordinate to explicit governance. Core law: AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATION != AUTONOMOUS AUTHORITY. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 92, "slug": "p92", "name": "Evolution 18: 4D Spatial Autonomy Fabric (predictive airspace + roadspace + agent-space go", "kind": "physical-AI and world-model governance", "domain": "PHYSICAL_AI_AND_WORLD_MODELS", "model": "Actuation-command guard (per command)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/command", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 224000, "source": "cain45/l5/spatial_autonomy.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 18: 4D Spatial Autonomy Fabric (predictive airspace + roadspace + agent-space governance). SENSORS -> PERCEPTION -> MULTIMODAL EVIDENCE -> 4D WORLD STATE -> ENTITY TRACKING -> INTENT ESTIMATION -> PREDICTED TRAJECTORIES -> REACHABLE SETS -> INTERACTION GRAPH -> COUNTERFACTUAL FUTURES -> CONSEQUENCE FIELD -> GOVERNANCE EVALUATION -> AUTHORITY -> CAPABILITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> TRAJECTORY AUTHORIZATION -> E8 GOVERNANCE KERNEL -> EXECUTION -> OBSERVATION -> RE-PREDICTION -> RE-AUTHORIZATION E18 is a strict extension of E15 (spatial + physical), E16 (temporal + causal) and E17 (multi-agent collective action). It adds the *actionable 4D world*: not merely \"what is there?\" but \"w", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 18: 4D Spatial Autonomy Fabric (predictive airspace + roadspace + agent-space governance). SENSORS -> PERCEPTION -> MULTIMODAL EVIDENCE -> 4D WORLD STATE -> ENTITY TRACKING -> INTENT ESTIMATION -> PREDICTED TRAJECTORIES -> REACHABLE SETS -> INTERACTION GRAPH -> COUNTERFACTUAL FUTURES -> CONSEQUENCE FIELD -> GOVERNANCE EVALUATION -> AUTHORITY -> CAPABILITY -> POLICY -> RISK -> TRAJECTORY AUTHORIZATION -> E8 GOVERNANCE KERNEL -> EXECUTION -> OBSERVATION -> RE-PREDICTION -> RE-AUTHORIZATION E18 is a strict extension of E15 (spatial + physical), E16 (temporal + causal) and E17 (multi-agent collective action). It adds the *actionable 4D world*: not merely \"what is there?\" but \"w It sits in physical-AI and world-model governance and is productized as Actuation-command guard (per command), charged at $0.001-$0.01/command (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 93, "slug": "p93", "name": "Evolution 21: Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric (machine discovery, scientific reaso", "kind": "Byzantine consensus and quorum certification", "domain": "BYZANTINE_CONSENSUS", "model": "Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/cert", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 223000, "source": "cain45/l5/discovery_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 21: Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric (machine discovery, scientific reasoning, hypothesis evolution, experimental autonomy and governed intelligence expansion). QUESTION -> HYPOTHESIS -> SEARCH -> EXPERIMENT -> SIMULATION -> OBSERVATION -> EVIDENCE -> ANALYSIS -> REPLICATION -> CONFIRMATION / REFUTATION -> KNOWLEDGE UPDATE -> CAPABILITY PROPOSAL -> GOVERNANCE REVIEW -> LIMITED DEPLOYMENT -> OBSERVED OUTCOME -> REASSESSMENT Core law: DISCOVERY != TRUTH != AUTHORITY != EXECUTION. E21 governs what autonomous research may *believe*, *claim* and *propose*, and keeps every one of those outputs out of the authority path: * epistemic state is COMPUTED from signed, typed, ind", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 21: Governed Open-Ended Intelligence Fabric (machine discovery, scientific reasoning, hypothesis evolution, experimental autonomy and governed intelligence expansion). QUESTION -> HYPOTHESIS -> SEARCH -> EXPERIMENT -> SIMULATION -> OBSERVATION -> EVIDENCE -> ANALYSIS -> REPLICATION -> CONFIRMATION / REFUTATION -> KNOWLEDGE UPDATE -> CAPABILITY PROPOSAL -> GOVERNANCE REVIEW -> LIMITED DEPLOYMENT -> OBSERVED OUTCOME -> REASSESSMENT Core law: DISCOVERY != TRUTH != AUTHORITY != EXECUTION. E21 governs what autonomous research may *believe*, *claim* and *propose*, and keeps every one of those outputs out of the authority path: * epistemic state is COMPUTED from signed, typed, ind It sits in Byzantine consensus and quorum certification and is productized as Quorum-certificate notary (per certificate), charged at $0.001-$0.01/cert (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 94, "slug": "p94", "name": "Evolution 16: 4D Causal World Intelligence Fabric", "kind": "physical-AI and world-model governance", "domain": "PHYSICAL_AI_AND_WORLD_MODELS", "model": "Actuation-command guard (per command)", "price": "$0.001-$0.01/command", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 223000, "source": "cain45/l5/causal_world.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 16: 4D Causal World Intelligence Fabric. OBSERVATION -> SPATIAL STATE -> TEMPORAL STATE -> EVENT -> CAUSAL RELATION -> STATE TRANSITION -> PREDICTED FUTURE -> COUNTERFACTUAL -> CONSEQUENCE -> GOVERNED DECISION E16 is a strict extension of E15. E15 established a governed, versioned, hash-chained spatial world state and the nine-binding path to a physical commit. E16 adds the temporal and causal dimension of that same world state -- while preserving every E15 law and never widening authority.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 16: 4D Causal World Intelligence Fabric. OBSERVATION -> SPATIAL STATE -> TEMPORAL STATE -> EVENT -> CAUSAL RELATION -> STATE TRANSITION -> PREDICTED FUTURE -> COUNTERFACTUAL -> CONSEQUENCE -> GOVERNED DECISION E16 is a strict extension of E15. E15 established a governed, versioned, hash-chained spatial world state and the nine-binding path to a physical commit. E16 adds the temporal and causal dimension of that same world state -- while preserving every E15 law and never widening authority. It sits in physical-AI and world-model governance and is productized as Actuation-command guard (per command), charged at $0.001-$0.01/command (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 95, "slug": "p95", "name": "Evolution 29: Governed Agentic Internet Transaction Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 222000, "source": "cain45/l5/transaction_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 29: Governed Agentic Internet Transaction Fabric. The governed machine transaction is the primitive: a consequential machine-to-machine exchange that may involve agents, humans, organizations, tools, contracts, money, compute and delegated authority. E29 governs its whole lifecycle and builds on E28 (portable execution identity), E25 (authorize -> E8 commit), E26 (federation) and E27 (contracts, negotiation, incidents, edge nodes). It adds no second enforcement path: every effect -- a tool call, a delivery, a payment, an escrow release -- is an E28 governed action through E25 and the E8 Action Commit boundary.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 29: Governed Agentic Internet Transaction Fabric. The governed machine transaction is the primitive: a consequential machine-to-machine exchange that may involve agents, humans, organizations, tools, contracts, money, compute and delegated authority. E29 governs its whole lifecycle and builds on E28 (portable execution identity), E25 (authorize -> E8 commit), E26 (federation) and E27 (contracts, negotiation, incidents, edge nodes). It adds no second enforcement path: every effect -- a tool call, a delivery, a payment, an escrow release -- is an E28 governed action through E25 and the E8 Action Commit boundary. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 96, "slug": "p96", "name": "Evolution 29: Governed Agentic Internet Transaction Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 222000, "source": "cain45/l5/transaction_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 29: Governed Agentic Internet Transaction Fabric. The governed machine transaction is the primitive: a consequential machine-to-machine exchange that may involve agents, humans, organizations, tools, contracts, money, compute and delegated authority. E29 governs its whole lifecycle and builds on E28 (portable execution identity), E25 (authorize -> E8 commit), E26 (federation) and E27 (contracts, negotiation, incidents, edge nodes). It adds no second enforcement path: every effect -- a tool call, a delivery, a payment, an escrow release -- is an E28 governed action through E25 and the E8 Action Commit boundary.", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 29: Governed Agentic Internet Transaction Fabric. The governed machine transaction is the primitive: a consequential machine-to-machine exchange that may involve agents, humans, organizations, tools, contracts, money, compute and delegated authority. E29 governs its whole lifecycle and builds on E28 (portable execution identity), E25 (authorize -> E8 commit), E26 (federation) and E27 (contracts, negotiation, incidents, edge nodes). It adds no second enforcement path: every effect -- a tool call, a delivery, a payment, an escrow release -- is an E28 governed action through E25 and the E8 Action Commit boundary. It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 97, "slug": "p97", "name": "Evolution 36: the Machine Agency Exchange Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity)", "price": "$0.10-$1.00/id", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 222000, "source": "cain45/l5/exchange_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 36: the Machine Agency Exchange Fabric. E36 turns CAIN from governance infrastructure into a governance infrastructure **plus a machine agency exchange**: the place where autonomous agents, tools, services, models and organizations can be discovered, evaluated, negotiated with, contracted, hired, delegated to, transacted with, verified and continuously governed. The exchange never becomes a bank, never custodies assets, never mints authority. It answers: WHO IS THIS MACHINE?", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 36: the Machine Agency Exchange Fabric. E36 turns CAIN from governance infrastructure into a governance infrastructure **plus a machine agency exchange**: the place where autonomous agents, tools, services, models and organizations can be discovered, evaluated, negotiated with, contracted, hired, delegated to, transacted with, verified and continuously governed. The exchange never becomes a bank, never custodies assets, never mints authority. It answers: WHO IS THIS MACHINE? It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Agent identity / passport issuance (per identity), charged at $0.10-$1.00/id (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 98, "slug": "p98", "name": "Evolution 36: the Machine Agency Exchange Fabric", "kind": "agent identity and capability authority", "domain": "AGENT_IDENTITY_AND_CAPABILITY", "model": "Delegation-token API (per token / per verify)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.01/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 222000, "source": "cain45/l5/exchange_fabric.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 36: the Machine Agency Exchange Fabric. E36 turns CAIN from governance infrastructure into a governance infrastructure **plus a machine agency exchange**: the place where autonomous agents, tools, services, models and organizations can be discovered, evaluated, negotiated with, contracted, hired, delegated to, transacted with, verified and continuously governed. The exchange never becomes a bank, never custodies assets, never mints authority. It answers: WHO IS THIS MACHINE?", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 36: the Machine Agency Exchange Fabric. E36 turns CAIN from governance infrastructure into a governance infrastructure **plus a machine agency exchange**: the place where autonomous agents, tools, services, models and organizations can be discovered, evaluated, negotiated with, contracted, hired, delegated to, transacted with, verified and continuously governed. The exchange never becomes a bank, never custodies assets, never mints authority. It answers: WHO IS THIS MACHINE? It sits in agent identity and capability authority and is productized as Delegation-token API (per token / per verify), charged at $0.0005-$0.01/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 99, "slug": "p99", "name": "Frontier 20 Common Runtime Substrate", "kind": "governed agent memory and vector governance", "domain": "GOVERNED_MEMORY", "model": "Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection)", "price": "$0.0002/inspection", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 221000, "source": "cain/frontier/runtime.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Frontier 20 Common Runtime Substrate Strategic Role: Shared Enterprise Platform Layer for all 20 Frontier Products. Architecture: 15-Stage Causal Governance Pipeline + Anti-Trust-Laundering Engine. Standard: RFC 8785 Canonical JSON | RFC 6962 Binary Merkle Trees | WORM Storage. THE SUPREME GOVERNANCE CONSTITUTION: INTELLIGENCE PROPOSES.", "description": "CAIN-42 Frontier 20 Common Runtime Substrate Strategic Role: Shared Enterprise Platform Layer for all 20 Frontier Products. Architecture: 15-Stage Causal Governance Pipeline + Anti-Trust-Laundering Engine. Standard: RFC 8785 Canonical JSON | RFC 6962 Binary Merkle Trees | WORM Storage. THE SUPREME GOVERNANCE CONSTITUTION: INTELLIGENCE PROPOSES. It sits in governed agent memory and vector governance and is productized as Memory/vector sanitization API (per inspection), charged at $0.0002/inspection (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" }, { "rank": 100, "slug": "p100", "name": "Evolution 31: Universal Proof-of-Governance Fabric", "kind": "tool and supply-chain governance", "domain": "TOOL_AND_SUPPLY_CHAIN_GOVERNANCE", "model": "Tool-call enforcement API (per call)", "price": "$0.0005-$0.002/call", "scale": "per unit", "status": "candidate-pre-prior-art;tested", "gross_usd": 221000, "source": "cain45/l5/governance_proof.py", "summary": "CAIN-42 Evolution 31: Universal Proof-of-Governance Fabric. AGENT PROPOSES -> CAIN EVALUATES -> CAIN AUTHORIZES -> E8 COMMITS -> WORLD CHANGES -> CAIN VERIFIES -> CAIN PRODUCES A GOVERNANCE PROOF -> AN INDEPENDENT VERIFIER RECHECKS THE CLAIM E31 adds no new decision path. A `GovernanceProof` is issued only FROM a real E30 outcome and only references artifacts that already exist and are independently signed or hash-chained: * the E30 universal action receipt (UAR, signed by the kernel's UAR key), * the E28 governance receipt (signed by the E28 receipt key), * the E25 execution receipt (signed by the E25 fabric key), * the E8 kernel-evidence entry (hash-chained; bound because its hash appears", "description": "CAIN-42 Evolution 31: Universal Proof-of-Governance Fabric. AGENT PROPOSES -> CAIN EVALUATES -> CAIN AUTHORIZES -> E8 COMMITS -> WORLD CHANGES -> CAIN VERIFIES -> CAIN PRODUCES A GOVERNANCE PROOF -> AN INDEPENDENT VERIFIER RECHECKS THE CLAIM E31 adds no new decision path. A `GovernanceProof` is issued only FROM a real E30 outcome and only references artifacts that already exist and are independently signed or hash-chained: * the E30 universal action receipt (UAR, signed by the kernel's UAR key), * the E28 governance receipt (signed by the E28 receipt key), * the E25 execution receipt (signed by the E25 fabric key), * the E8 kernel-evidence entry (hash-chained; bound because its hash appears It sits in tool and supply-chain governance and is productized as Tool-call enforcement API (per call), charged at $0.0005-$0.002/call (per unit). It is part of the October 2026 CAIN-42 Top 100 we lead with.", "tests": true, "tier": "PATENT_CANDIDATE" } ] }