Payment Orchestration

The Payment Orchestration Layer in Griffin AI underpins crucial smart contract functionalities essential for managing payments, and escrow arrangements. This blockchain layer supports the autonomy of AI agents and DApps, facilitating secure and automated transactions within the network.

Currently, Griffin AI does not directly manage the payment processes. Instead, it leverages standard blockchain infrastructures to handle transactions. Although the Griffin decentralized database records request logs for statistical analysis and dispute resolution, actual payments are executed directly by the network participants.

Service Providers (SPs) and AI agents are afforded the flexibility to adopt any suitable pricing strategy or payment method. Options include:

• Pay-as-you-go: Direct payments from end-users or Client Providers (CPs) to SPs.

• Up-front payments: Users or CPs pay SPs in advance to create a credit balance for future services.

• Subscription models: Users pay for ongoing access to services.

• Escrow payments: Funds are held in escrow and released upon service delivery.

SPs operating a Griffin Node benefit from integrated functions that simplify ongoing balance calculations, reporting, and usage statistics. This infrastructure alleviates the need for SPs to develop complex billing systems independently. However, it remains the responsibility of SPs to accurately report client balance credits and debits across various billing scenarios.

Future developments of the network aim to enhance payment capabilities through account abstraction, which will allow payments in any currency across different networks. Additionally, the introduction of Payment Providers (PPs) is anticipated. PPs will facilitate more sophisticated payment mechanisms, extending beyond on-chain transactions to include off-chain methods like credit card payments. These providers will also offer advanced escrow services, further securing and diversifying financial transactions within the Griffin AI ecosystem.