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LIQSPECIFICATIONPUBLISHED

Liquidity Coupling Protocol Specification v0.9

Reference specification for implementors

AUTHORSNook Research Collective
PUBLISHEDMay 10, 2025
VERSIONv0.9
ABSTRACT

This specification defines the wire format, state machine, and invariants for the Liquidity Coupling Protocol. It is intended as the authoritative implementation reference for protocol authors building settlement infrastructure for agentic economies. The specification covers the obligation data model, the SCG construction algorithm, atomic commit phases, rollback semantics, and the integrity proof format.

KEYWORDS
specificationprotocolwire-formatsettlement