Compliance before settlement

Edel Gate makes a payment prove it's allowed before any money moves.

A single checkpoint sits in front of every on-chain payment. It verifies who is paying, whether they're allowed to, screens for sanctions, applies the Travel Rule, and only then settles — in stablecoin, in seconds, with a bank-grade audit trail.

The cast

Five players, one rulebook

Meet everyone in the story. You'll see them again in each flow below.

The human

A verified person who has passed KYC.

The AI agent

Pays on the human's behalf, holds no secrets.

The merchant

Sells an API or service, wants compliant revenue.

Edel Gate

The compliance checkpoint between payer and ledger.

The ledger

XRP Ledger — where RLUSD finally settles.

Flow A · Onboarding

You verify once. You choose how much.

Verify with a Swiss or EU digital identity. You pick what proof to put on-chain — and only the proof, never your raw documents.

Age

Over 18

Prove you're an adult. Issued as the KYC_OVER_18 credential.

Residence

Jurisdiction

Prove your country (PoC: Switzerland). Issued as JURID_CH.

Identity

Full KYC

Full verified identity. Held encrypted, only used when the law requires.

On-chain credentials are tamper-proof: their type and issuer can't be edited after issuance. Your raw identity documents never touch the ledger.

Flow B · Know Your Agent

When an agent pays, we know whose agent it is

Autonomous agents are about to move real money. Edel Gate ties every agent payment back to a real, accountable human — without the agent ever holding a private key or a KYC document.

AI agent wallet

rAgent7f…K9qP

EDEL_AGENT
decode

Verified human principal

rHuman3a…X2mD

KYC verified
On-chain delegation URI
726861736832663a64656c65676174696f6e3a72486...resolves → rHuman3a…X2mD · accountable human

Think of it like a verified signature: the system can prove this agent was authorized by this specific person — without the agent ever holding the person's secrets. The agent never holds the human's KYC credential and never shares a private key. The gate reads the on-chain delegation and traces the agent back to the verified person who is accountable for the payment.

Flow C · The gate

Five checks. One stops everything.

Every payment runs the same five-stage gate, in order. If any stage fails, the payment is refused before a single token moves. Watch a compliant payment settle next to a sanctioned one getting blocked.

Compliant payment
SETTLED

1. Know Your Agent

Is this a real agent for a verified human?

2. Jurisdiction

Allowed to transact in this country?

3. AML / sanctions

Sender & receiver not on a denylist?

4. Travel Rule

Above CHF/USD 1000 → identity on file?

5. Settlement

Move RLUSD on the XRP Ledger

Result: RLUSD settled on-chain in ~4s with a full audit trail.
Sanctioned wallet
BLOCKED

1. Know Your Agent

Is this a real agent for a verified human?

2. Jurisdiction

Allowed to transact in this country?

3. AML / sanctions

Sender & receiver not on a denylist?

4. Travel Rule

Never reached — payment already stopped.

5. Settlement

Never reached — payment already stopped.

Result: HTTP 402 returned. Zero on-chain transaction. Nothing to unwind.

Flow D · Travel Rule

Privacy by default. Disclosure when the law says so.

Small payments stay private. Cross the CHF/USD 1000 threshold and the FATF Travel Rule kicks in: the merchant can see who really sent the money — for that one transaction. Try the reveal.

Payment $420UNDER 1000

No identity disclosure. The merchant sees a settled payment and the on-chain proof — nothing more. Privacy preserved below the threshold.

Payment $1,250OVER 1000 · TRAVEL RULE

Originator identity

Name••••••••••
DoB••••••••••
Nationality••••••••••
Document••••••••••

Because the payment crossed CHF/USD 1000, the originator's full-KYC identity — encrypted at rest — is disclosed to this merchant only, for this transaction only. This is the FATF Travel Rule, satisfied automatically.

Flow E · Settlement & audit

Settles in seconds. Reconciles like a bank.

Once every gate passes, the payment settles in RLUSD on the XRP Ledger. The merchant gets the on-chain proof and a one-click export in the exact format their accountant and bank already speak.

~4 second settlement

RLUSD moves on the XRP Ledger and finalizes in seconds — not days.

On-chain audit trail

Every payment carries a memo and a transaction hash anyone can verify.

ISO 20022 CAMT.053

Export a bank-standard statement straight into accounting or an ERP.

Flow F · On / off-ramp

Fund agents. Cash out revenue.

The gate handles compliant on-chain payments — Transak handles the edges. Humans and agents top up with fiat (on-ramp), and merchants convert revenue back to a bank account (off-ramp). Sandbox only; no real funds move.

Fiat (card / bank)

CHF · EUR · USD

Transak buys

XRP · RLUSD wallet

rAgent7f…K9qP

On-ramp. A human or agent buys XRP/RLUSD with fiat through Transak. The crypto is delivered straight to the wallet — nothing to sign — so an agent is funded and ready to pay through the gate.

TransakOn-ramp BUYOff-ramp SELLSandbox · no real funds

Why it matters

In plain English

Money moves at internet speed — so must the rules.

Crypto rails are instant and irreversible. Edel Gate puts the compliance check before the irreversible part, not after.

Agents are about to spend real money.

When software pays for software, someone still has to be accountable. We keep a real human on the hook for every machine payment.

Regulators don't have to take your word for it.

Every payment leaves a verifiable on-chain trail and exports into the same statement format banks already use.

Value flows freely through the gate.

Users fund agents in fiat and merchants cash out in fiat — the on/off-ramp closes the loop between bank money and on-chain settlement.

Where it fits

A compliance layer on top of Ripple's rails

We don't replace the payment rails — we make them safe to use under regulation. Edel Gate sits between the payer and the XRP Ledger.

Payers

Humans & AI agents

Edel Gate

KYA · jurisdiction · AML · Travel Rule

XRP Ledger

RLUSD settlement

XRP LedgerRLUSDx402 / HTTP 402XLS-70 credentialsISO 20022 CAMT.053Transak on/off-ramp
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