consent_url is not a governance layer — what Whire got right and what comes next

Short summary

Whire's consent_url pattern solves hallucination risk for low-volume agent payments but doesn't scale or capture the decision-chain audit trails required by EU PSD2 and AI Act compliance. A 5-layer governance model—schema validation, policy evaluation, risk scoring, signed receipts, and human escalation—routes routine transactions automatically while reserving human review for edge cases. GridStamp implements policy evaluation and signed receipts, enabling high-volume autonomous payments with full regulatory auditability without human-in-the-loop overhead.

• •Human approval gates prevent hallucination but create bottlenecks at scale and miss audit trail requirements
• •EU PSD2 and AI Act require explicit identity verification and decision-chain logging beyond transaction timestamps
• •5-layer governance model handles routine transactions via policy evaluation, escalating edge cases to humans
• •GridStamp demonstrates policy evaluation layer doesn't create bottlenecks (3ms P99, 14.55M operations validated)

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