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AO Protocol positions itself as the settlement and financial coordination layer for commerce where payment precedes delivery. It focuses on a specific and under-addressed category: booking float — the working capital held between customer payment and supplier fulfilment.

While prior onchain primitives have tokenised government debt (e.g. T-bills) and private credit, AO Protocol targets escrowed transactional capital that has historically remained offchain. This segment spans trillions of dollars globally across industries such as travel, rentals, marketplaces, and trade finance.

The emergence of this category is driven by recent infrastructure maturity: scalable stablecoin settlement, consumer-accessible L2 environments such as Base, and evolving regulatory clarity in key jurisdictions (e.g. MiCA treatment of fiat-backed stablecoins). These conditions enable new financial architectures that were previously impractical to deploy.

Protocol Design AO Protocol operates as a contract-layer system with four core functions, accessible through a unified integration point:

Settlement: Each transaction is processed through individually scoped smart contract wallets with isolated state.