IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 15, No 5: October 2026

Context-aware micro-escrow for agentic systems with language model validation

Ayman Nait Cherif (Hassan II University of Casablanca)
Mohamed Youssfi (Hassan II University of Casablanca)
Omar Bouattane (Hassan II University of Casablanca)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Oct 2026

Abstract

Autonomous agents transacting with each other need an escrow they can trust without a human in the loop. This study propose a context-aware micro-escrow framework for this setting: large language models (LLMs), the model context protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, and blockchain smart contracts together support automated, auditable micro-transactions among heterogeneous resource holders such as live application programming interfaces (APIs), internet of things (IoT) sensors, and service providers. Traditional escrow relies on rigid condition checks or a trusted intermediary. This study instead runs a deterministic, checklist-based semantic validation pipeline that emits signed binary verdicts and commits rationale hashes on-chain, so any verdict can be replayed off-chain while on-chain settlement stays minimal. Context travels in cryptographically stamped MCP envelopes; negotiation and evidence streaming run over authenticated A2A channels. An auditing layer computes risk signals from recent settlement metadata and applies a bounded fee surcharge that internalizes monitoring effort and performance drift. The framework is evaluated with a reproducible simulator under benign and adversarial mixes, reporting latency, decision quality (precision and recall under a binary-classifier view), and economic side effects (fee collection and slashing). The results show strong tolerance to malicious providers. Coordinated validator compromise, however, marks a clear trust boundary, motivating validator-side hardening as future work.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...