Nook Research
We produce open foundational research on the protocols that agentic AI systems need to cooperate and transact safely at scale.
The agentic economy — where autonomous AI systems plan, delegate, and transact on behalf of humans — requires new infrastructure. Not application-layer wrappers, but foundational protocols for trust, identity, and economic settlement. That infrastructure does not yet exist in a rigorous, open, and interoperable form. Nook Research exists to build it.
Agent Coupling Protocol
Trust and verification: identity primitives, attestation receipts, capability negotiation, and coordination contracts for autonomous agents.
Liquidity Coupling
Economic settlement: obligation clearing, Settlement Coupling Graphs, atomic commit semantics, and systemic liquidity guarantees.
Open foundations
All research outputs are published openly. Protocols that govern how autonomous agents interact must be publicly verifiable, not proprietary infrastructure.
Rigor before relevance
We build on formal methods, proof techniques, and empirical validation. Soundness is a requirement, not a style choice.
Minimal viable trust
Good protocols do the smallest amount of trust coordination that is mathematically sufficient. Complexity is a surface for failure.
Observe deeply, build truth
Every claim traces back to a verifiable observation. Research that cannot be falsified is not research.