Fireblocks Agentic Payments: The Paid Request That Still Stays on Hold

Fireblocks Agentic Payments

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Paid-Hold Failure

Fireblocks Agentic Payments becomes interesting when the agent has paid and the merchant still should not serve the file. Imagine an agent buying a premium risk feed: the merchant receives a signed x402 payment payload, the facilitator verifies the payment material, but an external wallet-policy attestation is missing and transaction screening is still pending. The useful question is not "did money move?" The useful question is "which state lets the merchant serve, hold, refund, or reject?"