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Ankit Bhatia

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Ankit Bhatia

Co-Founder, Abstraxn

Ankit Bhatia is the Co-Founder of Abstraxn. He writes on agent policy, identity, and the machine economy.

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The Future of Ecommerce Has No Storefront: What AI Shopping Agents Taught Us While Building Sorted01
First Principles17 min read

The Future of Ecommerce Has No Storefront: What AI Shopping Agents Taught Us While Building Sorted

We built Sorted, an MCP aggregator where AI shopping agents order under signed mandates. What it taught us about the future of ecommerce.

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The Score Travels. The Reason It Was Earned Doesn't.02
First Principles8 min read

The Score Travels. The Reason It Was Earned Doesn't.

Agent reputation registries are live and the data inside them is unusable. Portable reputation without portable enforcement is a category error.

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Every Rule Held. That Was the Problem.03
First Principles14 min read

Every Rule Held. That Was the Problem.

Agent payment rails inherited finality without reversal. Policy answers whether an action is permitted. Nothing answers whether it can be undone.

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The Chain Was Never the Problem. The Legibility Was.04
First Principles17 min read

The Chain Was Never the Problem. The Legibility Was.

On-chain agent policy failed on one property: readability. Once enforcement and legibility separate, the rule stays private and only the proof settles on-chain.

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We Are Building Guardrails in the Wrong Places05
First Principles12 min read

We Are Building Guardrails in the Wrong Places

On-chain, wallet, and application policy all fail autonomous agents. The enforcement position that matters sits above custody and below the application.

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Continuous Trust: Agent Identity Is a Verb, Not a Noun06
First Principles6 min read

Continuous Trust: Agent Identity Is a Verb, Not a Noun

Static credentials cannot govern autonomous agents. AI agent identity is shifting from a one-time signature to continuous, real-time validation of behavior.

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The Interoperable Machine Economy: Notes From a Builder07
First Principles10 min read

The Interoperable Machine Economy: Notes From a Builder

Mastercard, OpenAI, Visa, and MetaMask just validated the machine economy thesis in a single quarter. A builder's reflection on what they confirmed, what they missed, and why the interoperable layer is the gap that decides the next year of agentic infrastructure.

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