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   <front>
      <title>x402 Cryptographic Receipts: Format, Post-Quantum Discipline, and Starknet Anchor</title>
      <author initials="V." surname="Research" fullname="Vauban Research">
         <organization>Vauban Research</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="May" day="29" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   The x402 V2 protocol defines HTTP-native payment flows but leaves
   three gaps that block compliance use cases.  First, the PAYMENT-
   RESPONSE carries a facilitator-issued reference rather than a self-
   contained, offline-verifiable cryptographic receipt; an auditor
   cannot validate a retained receipt without contacting the
   facilitator.  Second, classical signatures alone (ES256K) do not
   satisfy the post-quantum migration horizon set by NIST SP 800-208,
   ANSSI, BSI, and EU eIDAS 2.0 for high-value or long-retention
   material.  Third, off-chain receipts alone do not provide ledger-
   anchored finality required by frameworks such as MiCA Art. 76
   (settlement record-keeping) and EU AI Act Art. 12 (transparency-and-
   documentation).

   This document consolidates three previously separate extensions into
   a single specification.  It defines (a) a negotiable receipt-format
   extension with three variants (Stwo Circle STARK proof, hybrid ES256K
   + ML-DSA-65 dual-signature, classical ES256K fallback) over a JCS
   canonical preimage discipline grounded in RFC 8785; (b) a two-axis
   post-quantum discipline mapping hash-based proving and hybrid
   signatures to the NIST PQC migration roadmap; and (c) a Starknet on-
   chain anchor format with a canonical anchor tuple, Cairo event
   layout, RPC endpoint convention, and block explorer reference for
   human-readable audit.

   Topics under active coalition discussion are explicitly out of scope:
   the VPSF composability claim algebra, the payment lifecycle finite
   state machine, and the delegation binding extension are deferred to
   companion documents not included in this consolidated submission.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-vauban-x402-consolidated-00" />
   
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