Know Your Agent
A verifiable credential for every agent — who is acting, vouched for by whom — that any counterparty can check before money moves.
// Sentinel · built by ANP Labs
Sentinel — a co-build that becamereusable IP.
Sentinel didn’t start as a product. It started as the system underneath a live economy we built and ran. We productized what worked: identity, agentic payments, and gateways — the parts of a high-stakes build worth not writing twice. It is the clearest proof of how the studio works, and IP we bring into the next co-build.
// 01 — What it is
The accountability layer, productized.
Sentinel is not a wallet, not a chain, and not a slide deck. It is the identity, delegation, and audit layer a system needs when an agent — or a person — moves money, and the layer the counterparty needs in order to trust that it did.
It is white-labeled by design: you keep your product, your brand, and your rails. Sentinel supplies what’s missing underneath — legible identity, limits that hold because they are cryptography, and a settlement trail every party can audit. It exists because we needed it first, and built it.
// 02 — Capabilities
Four surfaces, one layer.
Know Your Customer
The human and business identity checks compliance already expects, wired into the same attestation model the agents use.
Agentic payments
Payment flows built for non-human principals: bounded mandates, policy-as-code, and settlement an agent can initiate without a human in the loop.
Payment gateways
On-chain and off-chain gateways that connect agent-initiated payments to the rails your users already settle on.
// 03 — Where it runs
Built for systems where value actually moves.
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Payments & fintech
Products that move money for people and businesses, and have to settle every time.
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AI & autonomous agents
Where a non-human principal needs to act — and be accountable for it.
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Commerce & marketplaces
Platforms where many parties transact and trust has to be brokered between them.
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Regulated & on-chain value
Game economies, GameFi, DeFi — anywhere a balance can be cashed out into real money.
// 04 — Proof
It ran before it was a product.
MetaHoof
Sentinel didn’t start as a product. It started as the system underneath MetaHoof — a live economy ANP Labs built and ran end-to-end. Real value moved there first. That system became reusable IP — Sentinel.
Proven against a real rail
Our reference rail is Pix — operated by Brazil’s central bank, settling in seconds, 24/7, at population scale. Building against a real regulator and real volume is the difference between a system and a demo.
// 05 — Access
Brought into the build, not sold off a shelf.
Sentinel isn’t a self-serve product. It comes into your build the way it was made — as part of a co-build, with our engineers alongside yours. The way in is a diagnostic: it tells both sides whether the fit is real before anyone commits.
Book a diagnosticStart with a diagnostic.
Tell us what you’re building. We’ll tell you where the high-stakes line is and what it takes to cross it safely. Not a sales call.