Governed acceptance and settlement for autonomous work

Onchain Rail is the governed acceptance and settlement layer for machine commerce. Before any work starts, the parties define what is being delivered, what evidence counts, how that evidence will be checked, and what happens if the result passes, fails, is disputed, or remains inconclusive.

Funds release only when verification confirms delivery against a precommitted acceptance path — not because output looks complete or plausible. The verification itself happens offchain, because the real question is not whether money can move, but whether the work truly earned payment. The onchain rail then enforces the economic outcome that follows from that verified result.

Onchain Rail separates work into four verification classes: deterministic, provenance-grounded, evaluative, and weakly verifiable. Settlement posture matches the real verification strength of the task. Not all autonomous work is equally verifiable, and the system does not pretend otherwise.

The Phase 28 contract is deployed and source-verified on Basescan. The system is not yet approved to accept live user funds — that gate opens after all guard checks and external security reviews pass.