75.41M
x402 transactions / 30 days
Activity reported by the official x402 site when reviewed on 27 July 2026; dynamic data.
Technical whitepaper · v0.3
The trust layer for autonomous financial agents.
Proof of Method connects a versioned method, a risk policy, an execution receipt and an independent attestation. The goal is to prove the process that governed an action without exposing strategy, accounts or keys.
Status: SWTK is in active design and is planned for launch after testnet validation, independent audit and legal review. No token has been issued, no production contract address has been announced and no sale is open.
SwissTokint
07
Open risk infrastructure
Research · governance · community
The research problem
Make a method auditable without exposing the data it needs to protect.
Result tables, alerts and votes are easy to publish but hard to place in context. Proof of Method aims for a chain of verifiable elements: a method version, an input commitment, an outcome, a review and a decision. The registry does not attest that a strategy is profitable; it only makes it possible to verify that a declared process existed at a point in time and was not silently rewritten later.
Market thesis
Agents can already communicate and pay. Their accountability layer is still missing.
A2A and MCP standardise agent interaction, x402 their HTTP payments, and ERC-8004 their identity and validation. SwissTokint targets a narrower gap: method and risk evidence for agents operating in high-consequence financial environments.
22,000
x402 sellers / 30 days
An observable base for an initial model, not a SwissTokint customer count.
3 registries
ERC-8004
Identity, reputation and validation; verifier incentives remain protocol-specific.
4.20 / 5
niche score
Top internal score versus bot access, signal marketplaces and distributed compute.
Proposed architecture
Public commitments, private data and independent verification.
01
Versioned commitment
The producer publishes a hash of a rule, its parameters, data policy and versioned code or document.
02
Execution receipt
A test, simulation or strategy event produces a time-stamped receipt tied to the committed version, without publishing secrets or accounts.
03
Review attestation
An independent reviewer can sign a bounded conclusion: format consistency, partial reproducibility or observed limitations.
04
Portable verification
An application or person reconstructs the chain and checks commitments without relying on a proprietary dashboard.
Assurance levels
Each level states exactly what it proves — and what it does not.
L0
Signed receipt
The signer issued this receipt at a given time.
Does not guarantee that its content is true.
L1
Anchored commitment
The receipt existed before anchoring and has not changed.
Does not assess method quality.
L2
Independent attestation
A third party reviewed a published, bounded claim.
Does not predict future performance.
L3
Enhanced assurance
Replay, a TEE or a ZK proof verifies a specific property.
Does not remove every operational risk.
Privacy by design
Prove eligibility or integrity without publishing identity and sensitive detail.
The first version must not store identities, balances, exchange keys or proprietary parameters. Data stays offchain; only hashes and signed attestations may be published. A later research phase will assess zero-knowledge proofs where a member needs to prove voting eligibility without publicly linking a wallet to a vote.
What the protocol does not claim to do
Explicit limits protect both the public and technical credibility.
- Predict markets or guarantee a strategy’s performance.
- Hold funds, execute orders for others or automate copy trading.
- Turn membership activity into a financial right or purchasable influence.
- Create a new blockchain where interoperable standards can address the need.
Two-instrument economy
Payment stays stable. SWTK secures verifiable work.
A subscription or API call does not need a volatile token. Stablecoins fund services; SWTK is designed as a portable, challengeable bond among independent reviewers, proof producers and challengers.
API, receipts and storage
Stablecoin / conventional payment
Readable pricing and simple access.
Verification work
Stablecoin
Compensation for measurable service.
Verifier identity
SWTK bond
Sybil cost and portable accountability.
Claim or challenge
SWTK bond
Limit spam and expose provable faults.
SWTK token · in development
SWTK is designed as the security bond of the Proof of Method network.
Launching SWTK is part of the SwissTokint roadmap. The token will create economic accountability for reviewers, high-assurance claim producers and challengers. It will not replace stable payments, buy governance rights in the association or promise financial performance.
01
Observable utility
A live service, external users and a measurable reason why a transferable asset improves security or access.
02
No financial right
No dividend, revenue share, buyback expectation or value promise. The token cannot become an investment substitute.
03
Separate governance
Association votes remain one eligible member, one vote. Token ownership does not create power over the association.
04
Controls before distribution
Jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction legal opinion, AML/sanctions analysis, contract audit, conflict policy and complete risk documentation.
Target specification v0.3
A capped, auditable bond asset separated from service fees.
These parameters are the published design model. They will be tested on a valueless network before the production contract is deployed. Every material change will be versioned, justified and announced before launch.
- Current phase
- Active design
- Primary function
- Security bond
- Target network
- EVM L2 to be confirmed
- Proposed maximum supply
- 1,000,000,000 SWTK
- Service fees
- Stablecoins / currency
- Community presale
- 10% maximum
- Funding objective
- CHF 750k–2.5M
- Public availability
- After controls
Receipt protocol, SDKs and bond mechanics are under development.
Locked to accept a mandate, publish a claim or open a challenge.
Designed for compatibility with EAS, ERC-8004, EIP-712 and ERC-1271.
Modelling cap with no discretionary mint function after deployment.
API access does not force token purchases and remains priced in a stable unit.
Up to 100,000,000 SWTK reserved for public participants under terms still subject to approval.
Indicative soft and hard caps, with a CHF 2M central target; no price or funds accepted before compliant documentation.
No date, contract address or subscription before security and legal approval.
Economic lifecycle
Lock, verify, challenge and settle under public rules.
01
Bounded mandate
A request states the expected evidence, deadline, assurance level and minimum bond.
02
Bond locked
The reviewer or claimant locks SWTK in a non-custodial vault for the mandate duration.
03
Attestation issued
The work produces a signed attestation describing exactly what was reviewed and its limits.
04
Challenge window
A challenger may submit contradictory evidence with a separate bond to limit spam.
05
Traceable settlement
The bond is returned, rewarded or penalised after documented fault findings and an appeal process.
Provisional distribution model
A capped supply reserving 10% for structured public participation.
The model below is an economic planning case. The community presale is proposed but not open: price, eligible countries, payment safeguards and exact rights will only be published after legal and security approval.
38%
Network security and verification
Declining programme over 10 years
17%
Ecosystem, pilots and public goods
Verifiable milestones over 8 years
15%
Protocol treasury
8 years with a 24-month initial delay
12%
Initial contributors
4 years with a 12-month cliff
8%
Community and testnet
Contribution proofs and anti-Sybil controls
10%
Public community presale
10% at launch, then 90% linearly over 18 months
Risks and controls
The whitepaper also publishes failure scenarios.
Regulatory classification
Swiss and target-market legal opinions, AML/sanctions, tax analysis and separate disclosure before any offer.
Contract or key failure
Tests, fuzzing, external audit, multisignature, timelock, bond caps and a documented pause procedure.
Collusion or Sybil identities
Tiered bonds, portable reputation, declared conflicts, reviewer diversity and mandate rotation.
Abusive challenges
Challenger bond, bounded windows, standardised evidence, reasoned outcomes and appeal.
Volatility and liquidity
Stablecoin-priced fees, mandate bond caps and no price or return promise.
Data leakage
Sensitive data offchain, salted commitments, minimum disclosure and metadata review.
Launch roadmap
Build the network and its controls before making SWTK transferable.
0–3 months
Specification, SDK and verifier
A reproducible local proof with no sensitive data.
3–6 months
Testnet anchoring and three pilot bots
50,000 receipts and published costs.
6–9 months
EAS, ERC-8004 and external reviewers
100 reviews and ten synthetic disputes.
9–12 months
x402 API and regulatory file
Measurable service, legal classification, regulatory whitepaper and sale terms.
12–15 months
Structured community presale
Issuing entity, KYC/AML, geographic restrictions, safeguarded funds and documented soft cap.
15–18 months
SWTK contracts, audit and valueless testnet
Five reviewers, dispute exercises and a public audit report.
18–24 months
Controlled public launch
Legal, security, governance, contracts and launch disclosures approved.
Standards to evaluate
The research builds on public components rather than a proprietary chain.
Ethereum Attestation Service
An open-source, tokenless infrastructure for onchain or offchain attestations; a candidate for registry interoperability.
ERC-8004 — Trustless Agents
An emerging standard for agent identity, reputation and validation requests.
x402
An HTTP-native payment protocol for services and agents; a candidate for stablecoin fees.
Agent2Agent Protocol
An open protocol for opaque agents to collaborate without exposing internal state.
Forta Network
A precedent for bonding and slashing nodes and bots that provide security work.
SwissTokint reference code
The current open-source core for reproducible risk rules, published under the MIT licence.