ERC-8226: Regulated Agent Mandate

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Update: spec refinements and reference implementation now in PR #1844

We’ve opened PR #1844. Two sets of changes, one from the EIP review process and one from this thread.

Spec refinements

  • complianceProvider is now mandatory at grantMandate. The optional path is removed. This closes a gap that was implicit in @TrendAdmin’s question on safeguards: with the provider optional, a mandate could be granted without principal eligibility verification ever running. Making it mandatory ensures the dual compliance check is always active.

  • Cap denomination clarified, and enforcement is now explicitly venue-agnostic. The same mandate can be enforced at the token hook, in an EIP-7702 delegated account, or via a dedicated executor, with consistent semantics across all three.

Reference implementation (under assets/erc-8226/)

  • AgentMandate registry

  • ComplianceProvider reference

  • Optional AgentExecutor

  • End-to-end integration with ERC-7943 (uRWA-20) showing the dual compliance check pattern in working code

Position on the custody model open question
After working through the reference implementation, the current PR keeps the spec custody-agnostic. Prescribing a default would constrain adoption across use cases with materially different operational needs (high-frequency strategies vs long-term investment vehicles, agent-direct vs principal-direct settlement). Both models are supported by the same interfaces. The reference implementation demonstrates the agent-custodied path with ExecutionRecorded events for traceability; principal-custodied works without any spec changes. We’ll revisit this position once we have production deployments to learn from.

Open for feedback

  • Does the venue-agnostic enforcement model hold up for EIP-7702 delegated accounts in your view, or are there account-abstraction edge cases that need explicit handling in the spec?

  • On composability: @Nicopat, your ERC-8240 integration note remains fully applicable. IComplianceProvider is unchanged. Happy to coordinate on the composition note you mentioned.

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