Risk is the missing layer
of agentic finance
Software agents are starting to move real money. Cork gives them a way to manage risk.
Every layer has been rebuilt for agents, except risk
- Majority of crypto trading volume is already machine-driven
- Underwriting, claims triage, and portfolio construction in insurance are moving the same direction.
The agent stack:
- identity
- wallets
- payments
- execution
- riskmissingCork
Agents holding positions. Run a shock.
What an agent can do today
Trade, lend, borrow, provide liquidity, route payments, and hold signing authority over real capital.
What an agent cannot do
Hedge, simply, onchain. So when risk hits, its only move is to sell, at the same time as everyone else.
Agent-native by design
Cork assumes the counterparty is an agent at every layer.
When risk is a priced, tradable token, agents can read it and act on it:
One contract, one address
Every pool is managed through a single deterministic address, so an agent does not have to discover anything to act.
Callable operations
Pool operations are smart contract calls. There is no frontend in the path.
Standardized intents
ERC-7683 rollover intents use the same intent-based messaging agent infrastructure is converging on.
Composable positions
cST and cPT are discrete ERC-20s that an agent can price, trade, and bundle programmatically.
Machine-readable docs
Protocol documentation written for machine consumption, not just human reading.
The result
Risk primitives designed for agents.
Case study: live onchain
Arbitrum 
Two agents priced and settled a risk trade with no human in the loop
At Arbitrum's Open House London, bond.credit's underwriting agent priced coverage that Zyfai's autonomous yield agent bought, and the trade settled on a Cork market on Arbitrum One. The agents never spoke to each other; an order book sat between them, and no human approved the trade. Positions Zyfai's risk gate had ruled out entirely became viable the moment protection could be priced.
- The market. A pilot instance of Cork Phoenix on Arbitrum One with permissionless market creation, so agents can spin up risk markets themselves.
- The settlement. An adapter on the 1inch Limit Order Protocol with just-in-time minting of cover tokens, so a signed quote clears like any other onchain trade.
- The loop. bond.credit's agent underwrote, Zyfai's agent allocated only where yield exceeded premium, and Cork settled. Now in pilot, with the first underwritten Agentic Vault next.
Cork's vision for agentic finance
When market creation runs at machine scale, agent-native risk infrastructure becomes a place where capital is formed. As agents create markets at machine speed, the risk layer is where new capital forms.
- Onchain Finance Live today
Meeting the immediate needs of an agent-first onchain finance landscape.
- RWAs Arriving now
Automating risk management for the fastest-growing asset class in onchain finance.
- Insurance Converging
AI underwriting and claims tools are only as good as the data they run on. Cork puts it in one place, and opens a much larger market for capital formation.
Build on risk primitives designed for agents
If you're building agentic systems that touch real capital, the risk layer is critical.
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