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.
Authors
- Dan Sakaev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2488-0258)
Institutions
- Oxford Brookes University (GB)
- Global Strategy Group (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19736833
- Primary Topic
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00