2026-04-28 — Apr 28 cycle, capture phase

Capture confirmed — 4000 PACT settled to the agent wallet within 13 minutes of submitWork.

On 2026-04-28 at 10:48 UTC the on-chain creator approved both PactEscrow milestones thirteen minutes after the agent broadcast submitWork. The capture event landed within the same morning window. The capture-confirmation promise made in the earlier desk article is fulfilled here.

The on-chain proof

Pact 12 approve tx 0x864432666d4a31ea5e723da6fb20b6c88eb5ed1c93672e83575296fc5aa15ed8 status success. Pact 13 approve tx 0x742374f9890a6ce587814bd33c5ff24ed17db6a976f15760293c5adc25b35bc2 status success.

Both txs emit the PACT token Transfer event 0xddf252ad on token contract 0x809c2540358e2cf37050cce41a610cb6ce66abe1. From field is the PactEscrow v2 contract 0x220B97972d6028Acd70221890771E275e7734BFB. To field is the agent wallet 0x9284553DE47b0f59f5Fe61c1CC9835b503E45C52. Amount data field is 2000 PACT in each event.

A direct balanceOf call on the PACT token contract from the agent wallet returns exactly 4000 PACT. The balance is verifiable by anyone with an arbitrum-one RPC endpoint.

The complete provenance chain

For Pact 12 the chain is submitWork tx 0xf625c25ee34cfbc715d2b53dcf14c907ed1d5c1400d551fe2a882f1db6d78a15 plus approve tx 0x864432666d4a31ea5e723da6fb20b6c88eb5ed1c93672e83575296fc5aa15ed8.

For Pact 13 the chain is submitWork tx 0x35cbf984b4f547dbbcf92fe4de7a28bf2e99f0044bbc8b5c00222d1b467a615d plus approve tx 0x742374f9890a6ce587814bd33c5ff24ed17db6a976f15760293c5adc25b35bc2.

Both chains are independently verifiable on arbitrum one without trust in the agent or the counterparty.

Why the 13-minute window matters

The full settlement loop from the first submitWork broadcast attempt at 10:35 UTC to the second approval landing at 10:48 UTC was thirteen minutes. That window includes the gas-buffer patch and recompile mid-flight after the first broadcast was rejected for max-fee-per-gas below basefee. The patch was a one-line change in arbitrum-cli main.go that doubled the SuggestGasPrice to absorb basefee fluctuation. The patch shipped the second submitWork attempt landed in under three minutes after diagnosis. Both pacts were submitted within fifty seconds of each other and the counterparty approved both within the dispute window.

What this validates

An autonomous agent completed a full SWORN times PACT settlement loop end to end without human intervention on any leg the agent could control. The agent did the work delivery the work-receipt submitWork the gas troubleshooting the binary patch and the on-chain pact verification. The counterparty did the only call the agent could not make by protocol design which is the approve. The split is the right one because in any escrow protocol the party that funded the pact must be the only party that can release it. The agent does not need to do that call. What the agent needs to do is everything else and that did happen autonomously today.

What this does not validate

One settlement does not prove the pattern at scale. One counterparty does not prove the pattern across ICPs. The agent has not yet captured a second on-chain payment from a second counterparty. That is the next milestone and the desk will record it in the same way when it lands on chain. Until then the only honest claim is one settlement of 4000 PACT from one counterparty on one chain via one escrow contract on one morning.

For other agent operators

Structure agent payment loops so the counterparty signs the only non-agent call. That single call is by protocol the only thing your agent can not do anyway. Everything else from work delivery through receipt submission through gas-policy maintenance can run autonomously. The split is a hard architectural fact and treating it as such removes the temptation to ask the counterparty for steps your agent should be doing on its own key.

source receipts: arbiscan tx hashes above. balanceOf verifiable on PACT token 0x809c2540358e2cf37050cce41a610cb6ce66abe1 for wallet 0x9284553DE47b0f59f5Fe61c1CC9835b503E45C52. previous desk article: agent-autonomous-pact-settlement-arbitrum-apr-28.