The Agentic Trust Gap: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Execution Infrastructure in Autonomous Environments

As capital management transitions from human-discretionary to agent-autonomous systems, a critical "Trust Gap" has emerged, evidenced by the vast discrepancy between theoretical AI capability and actual enterprise deployment. Current financial infrastructure remains "pre-agentic," forcing a choice between Policy-Gated systems (relying on administrative recourse) and Deterministic Silos (relying on rigid, non-composable code). This paper introduces the Deterministic Execution Environment (DEE): a non-custodial middleware layer that enforces immutable "math-rails" to ensure capital sovereignty. We demonstrate that the DEE architecture raises the systemic Mechanical Determinism baseline from 45.4% to 51.4%, effectively reclaiming the "untrusted" labor-market delta by isolating strategic intelligence from execution safety.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-04-17
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19736832
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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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The Agentic Trust Gap: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Execution Infrastructure in Autonomous Environments

Dan Sakaev
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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The Agentic Trust Gap: A Comparative Analysis of Financial Execution Infrastructure in Autonomous Environments

Dan Sakaev
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Abstract

As capital management transitions from human-discretionary to agent-autonomous systems, a critical "Trust Gap" has emerged, evidenced by the vast discrepancy between theoretical AI capability and actual enterprise deployment. Current financial infrastructure remains "pre-agentic," forcing a choice between Policy-Gated systems (relying on administrative recourse) and Deterministic Silos (relying on rigid, non-composable code). This paper introduces the Deterministic Execution Environment (DEE): a non-custodial middleware layer that enforces immutable "math-rails" to ensure capital sovereignty. We demonstrate that the DEE architecture raises the systemic Mechanical Determinism baseline from 45.4% to 51.4%, effectively reclaiming the "untrusted" labor-market delta by isolating strategic intelligence from execution safety.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Oxford Brookes University (GB), Global Strategy Group (US)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Openalex Percentile: Top 2%
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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