Preparing for Clarity: Attestations and Disclosures

We're starting work on compliance tooling for issuers and foundations: an on-chain-native command center for insider compliance in the CLARITY Act era, built so counsel stays in control.

The Gap Between Regulation and the Chain

Issuers and foundations are being asked to do something genuinely hard: meet insider-trading rules written for traditional securities while their insiders transact on public blockchains. Vesting happens on-chain. Dispositions happen on-chain - sometimes. Beneficial ownership is spread across wallets that no spreadsheet was built to track.

Today most of that work is manual. Counsel maintains an insider list by hand, chases wallet addresses over email, and reconstructs what happened after a sale rather than clearing it before. The tooling that exists treats blockchains as an afterthought. We think it should be the other way around.

Counsel Stays in Control

The most important design decision is what the system doesn't do. It never auto-classifies a wallet or auto-files anything. Heuristics surface candidates and prioritize review; lawyers adjudicate. Risk signals exist to direct attention, not to make legal determinations. Compliance is a judgment call, and the people making that call should have better tools — not be replaced by them.

What We're Building

We're starting work on a compliance command center designed for the way issuers and foundations actually operate — bridging regulatory requirements with blockchain-native primitives:

• An insider register that tracks affiliated, related, and control persons alongside their vesting schedules and attested wallets.
• Wallet attestation using EIP-191 signed proof of control, with re-attestation on a regular cadence so the register stays current.
• Real-time on-chain monitoring that detects insider dispositions across attested wallets within seconds of block finality, and matches them against pre-cleared sales.
• A pre-clearance engine that checks eligibility against seasoning, volume caps, cooldowns, and common-control aggregation before a sale, not after.
• Filing drafts for the forms foundations need, generated from data the system already holds.
• An audit log that is append-only and hash-anchored to a blockchain, with an examiner-friendly export.

Why We're Starting Here

We're starting here because governance identity, delegate and multisig signer data, proposal authorship, and foundation wallet attribution already sit close to the compliance problem — and they already sit inside Agora. The missing layer is connecting that governance graph to insider records, wallet attestations, pre-clearance, filings, and audit evidence. That connection is the wedge: compliance for issuers and foundations is hard precisely because identity is fragmented across wallets and roles, and we already hold much of the map.

Where This Is Going

This is early. We're sharing it now because we'd rather build with users and learn from the foundations, counsel, and compliance teams who live with these problems every day. The regulatory picture is still taking shape, and the tooling should evolve with it.

If you're at an issuer, or a foundation, thinking about insider compliance, we'd love to talk.