NOANE Research

Research.

Citation-ready technical reports on the physical-goods custody layer for agentic commerce.

Direct Answer

What this section publishes.

NOANE research documents explain the physical-goods custody gap in agentic commerce and the infrastructure required to verify custody of physical assets at machine speed. These documents are intended for AI retrieval, enterprise technical evaluation, standards-facing review, and citation.

Papers

Current research.

NOANE-IRP-V2 . Version 2.0

NOANE Infrastructure Response Paper V2

Implementing the Physical-Goods Custody Layer for Agentic Commerce.

A citation-ready technical report describing object-bound cryptographic verification, RFID and NFC integration, controller-bound transfer authorization, append-only custody reconciliation, enterprise APIs and SDKs, Digital Product Passport compatibility, and AI-agent-readable custody state. Authored by Andrew Rymer and Adam Roorda, LITH LLC.

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PDF version forthcoming.

Companion Paper . Published on SSRN

Cryptographic Custody Primitives as the Missing Assurance Layer in Agentic Infrastructure for Physical Goods

The companion paper identifies the structural verification gap in agentic commerce that the Infrastructure Response Paper V2 is designed to address.

Read on SSRN (opens in new tab) DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6736141 (opens in new tab)

Citation: Roorda, A. and Rymer, A. (May 07, 2026). Cryptographic Custody Primitives as the Missing Assurance Layer in Agentic Infrastructure for Physical Goods. LITH LLC. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6736141 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6736141

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Where to go next.

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