Pay with confidence: How Solv Labs built verifiable, auditable agent payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

This article describes how Solv Labs built a governed agent-payments workflow on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that ensures every transaction is verifiable, auditable, and compliant with enterprise policies.

• ORACLE policy engine pre-authorizes payments before settlement, preventing unauthorized transactions from completing
• ICME PreFlight provides independently verifiable policy checks with cryptographic proofs that third parties can verify
• AWS Nitro Enclave integrity service cryptographically signs execution records, binding them to specific enclave images
• Per-transaction risk pricing deterministically computes risk multipliers for each payment based on violation signals
• All governance steps complete before settlement, with end-to-end latency under four seconds including on-chain routing through Coinbase
• Every transaction produces a signed evidence record binding policy, constraints, attestation, risk price, and settlement artifacts
• Enterprises gain audit trails per transaction, evidence that survives disputes, and review effort that scales with exceptions rather than volume

The workflow enables enterprises to deploy agent payments in regulated environments without sacrificing speed for control, with governance overhead under one second per transaction.