
Agentic payment and asset-management systems have built a control layer to govern what AI agents are authorized to do, but they still lack a risk layer to tell them whether the stablecoins, vaults, and counterparties they're settling into are actually safe at the moment of execution.

A proposed version of Section 302 outlined sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and risk-based controls for onchain application layers, offering an early blueprint for how risk intelligence could become embedded directly into digital asset transactions.