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TAO Daily

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30 sept. à 20h26

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https://taodaily.io/yanez-pulse-and-gate-give-ai-agents-autonomy-without-giving-up-human-control/

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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">AI agents are moving beyond assistance. They can now initiate payments, execute trades, interact with smart contracts, and act on behalf of users across increasingly autonomous systems.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">That creates a growing trust problem. As agents gain more authority, failures become more consequential. A stolen credential, prompt injection, or misinterpreted instruction can result in an irreversible financial or operational action.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://taodaily.io/yanez-finally-reveals-its-enterprise-customers-and-partners-including-dow-jones-moodys-and-lexisnexis/">Yanez (SN54)</a>, a Bittensor-based privacy-preserving identity infrastructure, is approaching this problem from the authorization layer. Its new products, <strong>Pulse and Gate</strong>, are designed to let agents act autonomously while keeping sensitive actions under the explicit control of a verified human.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Built on Yanez YID</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pulse and Gate build on <strong>Yanez YID</strong>, the project’s Proof of Humanhood and Proof of Uniqueness system, which verifies a real, unique person without sending biometric or personal data off-device.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-tao-daily wp-block-embed-the-tao-daily"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="LZQGpyO5ib"><a href="https://taodaily.io/yanez-sn54-launches-privacy-first-digital-identity-app-on-google-play-and-the-app-store/">Yanez (SN54) Launches Privacy-First Digital Identity App on Google Play and the App Store</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden;" title="“Yanez (SN54) Launches Privacy-First Digital Identity App on Google Play and the App Store” — The TAO Daily" src="https://taodaily.io/yanez-sn54-launches-privacy-first-digital-identity-app-on-google-play-and-the-app-store/embed/#?secret=3KdojqZncl#?secret=LZQGpyO5ib" data-secret="LZQGpyO5ib" width="500" height="282" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> </div></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yanez has developed these privacy-preserving identity primitives through its work in the Bittensor ecosystem, including liveness verification and adversarial identity testing.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pulse extends YID from identity verification into authorization, while Gate carries that approval into execution by keeping funds locked until the required authorization is verified.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Pulse Introduces Human Authorization at the Point of Action</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pulse is Yanez’s authorization layer for sensitive agent activity. Users decide which actions can happen autonomously and which require confirmation.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="453" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-301-1024x453.png" alt="" class="wp-image-25180" style="aspect-ratio:2.260869565217391;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-301-1024x453.png 1024w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-301-300x133.png 300w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-301-767x339.png 767w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-301.png 1882w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://pulse.yanez.ai/">About Yanez Pulse</a></figcaption></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">An agent can continue researching markets, preparing transactions, or handling low-risk operations, while larger payments, trades, permission changes, and other sensitive actions trigger human approval.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">When approval is required, the process works like this:</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>A request is sent to the user</strong> through the Yanez YID application with the exact action the agent wants to perform.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>The user reviews the request</strong> and confirms it with a live face verification.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>A cryptographic signature is generated on-device</strong> and tied specifically to that action.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>The signature is returned to the system</strong> as proof that the authorized human approved the request.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">5. <strong>Biometric data remains on the user’s device</strong>, according to Yanez, and is not stored externally.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Because each approval is created for a specific action at the moment it is requested, there is no reusable authorization token that can later be stolen and replayed.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">This gives the agent room to operate independently without giving it unlimited authority over the user’s most sensitive actions.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Gate Separates the Agent From the Funds</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Gate applies the same principle to payments. Instead of giving an agent direct control over a wallet or spending credential, funds remain behind a smart contract governed by rules set by the owner.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="358" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-299-1024x358.png" alt="" class="wp-image-25178" style="aspect-ratio:2.8493150684931505;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-299-1024x358.png 1024w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-299-300x105.png 300w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-299-766x268.png 766w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-299.png 1443w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://gate.yanez.ai/">How Gate Works</a></figcaption></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Those rules can define spending limits, approved contracts, allowed counterparties, and other transaction conditions. The agent can prepare and submit a transaction request, but it does not hold the key required to release the funds.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Once the user approves an action through Pulse:</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>The approval is cryptographically tied</strong> to that specific transaction.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>The Gate contract verifies</strong> the authorization before releasing funds.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>Nonces prevent the approval</strong> from being reused or replayed.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">This creates a clear separation between intent and control. The agent can propose a transaction, but the funds only move once the contract verifies that the human owner approved that exact action.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Designing Around Agent Failure</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pulse and Gate are built around a simple assumption. Agent failures may be impossible to eliminate entirely, but the damage they can cause can still be contained. A compromised agent might attempt a malicious transaction, but because it does not directly control the funds, execution still depends on the required human authorization.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="458" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-300-1024x458.png" alt="" class="wp-image-25179" style="aspect-ratio:2.236559139784946;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-300-1024x