last week at @consensus2026 in miami: we showed the live demo of compliance enforcement on autonomous agent payments, first time live, with @trmlabs and @chainlink. here's the unpack 👇 what we demoed two transactions, screening enabled. badclaw, a wallet associated with tornado cash. blocked with a 403 forbidden the moment it hit the screening layer. no funds moved, no human in the loop, no rejection details disclosed so adversaries can't reverse-engineer the logic. goodclaw, a wallet with clean defi history. screened against the same intelligence layer, came back at acceptable risk, transacted normally. one toggle inside the dashboard: every decision logged with risk scores, categories, attributed entities, offending addresses, and timestamps. why this matters agent guardrails have been a half-conversation so far. spend limits cover how much your agent can move. ampersend has handled that since day one with per-agent wallets, limits, topup schedules, and a dashboard for monitoring activity. that's half the problem. the other half is who the agent is transacting with. a clean spend limit doesn't help when the recipient is a sanctioned entity or a ransomware operator, and no regulator is going to be satisfied that the dollar amount was capped. compliance screening closes the second half. spend controls plus screening is what defensible agent commerce actually looks like. why three companies policy, intelligence, enforcement. three separate jobs. 1️⃣ @chainlink ACE writes the policy onchain where regulators can verify it directly. 2️⃣ @trmlabs returns risk intelligence on the counterparty in under 500ms with fedramp high authorization. 3️⃣ ampersend executes the decision before the transaction broadcasts. splitting it across three companies is the point. no single party can weaken the rule, fudge the intelligence, or skip the enforcement. what's next screening ships into ampersend as a fast follow for enterprise customers. roadmap extends to buyer-side gating, world id proof-of-personhood on counterparty owners, and kyc-verified counterparties through chainlink ACE and sumsub. huge thanks to the @trmlabs and @chainlink teams. get started with ampersend: