Ashlar Blue natively supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and standardized LLM ingestion formats, allowing autonomous AI agents to query DNS discovery, verify hardware attestation quotes, and execute zero-gas settlements without DOM scraping.
https://ashlar.blue/llms.txt
https://ashlar.blue/.well-known/mcp.json
npm i @ashlar-blue/x402-trust
https://ashlar.blue/.well-known/x402
Hardware-enforced trust boundaries for private AI computation, proprietary model protection, and tamper-proof financial transaction signing.
The Vulnerability of Standard Cloud Computing: When software runs in a standard AWS, Google Cloud, or datacenter server, the operating system kernel, hypervisor, and hosting staff have unrestricted access to physical RAM. For autonomous AI agents holding financial signing keys, private user context, or proprietary model weights, standard hosting exposes critical assets to memory dumps, unauthorized code injection, and front-running.
How Hardware Confidential Silicon (TEEs) Protects Compute: A Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is a physically isolated hardware boundary inside the CPU or GPU chip. When an enclave initializes, on-chip cryptographic engines encrypt every byte of memory using keys generated by physical true-random number generators (TRNG). Even hypervisors, cloud operators, and compromised host OS administrators cannot inspect or tamper with runtime memory.
Hardware Attestation Proofs: The processor measures the exact cryptographic hash of all software and data loaded into the enclave into Platform Configuration Registers (PCRs) and produces a hardware-signed Attestation Quote signed by Intel, AMD, or NVIDIA root certificate authorities. Remote agents and enterprise auditors verify this mathematical quote before transferring funds or transmitting confidential prompts.
Ashlar Blue is hardware-agnostic by design. Our attestation verifier unifies diverse enterprise silicon into a single standardized verification framework:
• Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX): Hardware-isolated virtual machines with Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption (MKTME) and Measurement Root of Trust (MRTD) hardware certificates.
• AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV-SNP): Full memory encryption with hardware state protection and VCEK cryptographic attestation certificates.
• NVIDIA Hopper / Blackwell Confidential Computing (GPU TEEs): End-to-end PCIe encryption and GPU VRAM isolation, allowing open-weights LLMs (Llama 3, DeepSeek, Mistral) to run private inference where prompt context and model weights remain 100% unobservable.
• Flare Data Connector & Secure Enclave Feeds: Direct hardware ingestion of Flare FDC and FTSO oracle streams directly into the enclave boundary before authorizing settlement.
All memory pages allocated to an Ashlar Blue execution enclave are encrypted using hardware AES keys generated on-chip by the CPU. Even hypervisors, cloud operators, and compromised host OS administrators cannot inspect or modify runtime memory.
The Measurement Root of Trust (MRTD) hash is a 256-bit cryptographic digest representing the exact binary code and initial state loaded into the enclave. Counterparties verify this hash against immutable blockchain records before authorizing payments.
Hardware attestation quotes are formatted as standard EAT/CWT tokens bound directly to the payment authorization envelope, ensuring unforgeable provenance across all counterparty audits.