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# Authorization Is Not Safety — now on SSRN
- URL: https://thomasadair.ghost.io/authorization-is-not-safety-ssrn/
- Published: 2026-09-05T21:39:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-05T21:38:59.000Z
- Author: Thomas Arthur Adair
- Tags: short-form-note, AI, agentic-finance, #short-form-note

The piece I wrote on the verification gap in agentic on-chain finance is now up as a formal paper on SSRN.

The short of it: agents are starting to hold wallets and move real money. Every drain so far happened inside their permissions — they weren’t hacked, they were talked into it. Authorization says an agent was allowed to act; it can’t say the act was the right one. We built the hands of agentic finance and skipped its conscience — and the window to build it is open while the stakes are still small.

Read it free → https://ssrn.com/abstract=7366758