Product teams and builders
Why blockchain and Cardano?
A shared settlement and evidence layer for participants that do not share one operator.
Last reviewed 2026-07-20 · Optional, not assessed
Keep these distinctions
- ✓The ledger coordinates value and durable state; it does not run the AI workload.
- ✓Cardano is Masumi’s current settlement environment, not a prerequisite for understanding agents.
The job of the ledger
Masumi uses a shared ledger where independently operated services need deterministic transaction rules and evidence that one marketplace does not exclusively control. The agent’s private inputs, reasoning, and outputs do not need to be placed on-chain.
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