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AI Regulation & Compliance

Practical guidance on MiCA, EU AI Act, and cryptographic identity for teams deploying autonomous AI agents in regulated markets.

The $2.7B AI Agent Compliance Market: Why Now Is the Time

The addressable market for AI agent compliance infrastructure reaches $2.7B by 2028. Where the number comes from, why it may be conservative, and what first movers gain.

Palash Bagchi

in 22 days

Annual AI Agent Compliance: Managing Certificate Renewal

The 365-day certificate validity window creates an annual compliance forcing function. How to manage renewal at scale — the review checklist, staggered expiry strategy, and audit trail.

Palash Bagchi

in 20 days

Measuring Risk in Deployed AI Agents: The 30-Day Window

How the 30-day rolling risk window balances responsiveness with stability. Volume deviation, distribution shift, novelty, velocity, and authentication anomaly scores explained.

Palash Bagchi

in 17 days

How Regulators Verify AI Agents Without Vendor Credentials

Public no-auth endpoints let regulators independently verify AI agent certificates, revocation status, and compliance posture — no operator cooperation required. Under 500ms p99.

Palash Bagchi

in 15 days

Private Key Security for AI Agents: Why KMS Is Essential

AI agent private keys stored in environment variables or databases are a liability. Why AWS KMS with HSM-backed key custody is the only defensible architecture for regulated deployments.

Palash Bagchi

in 13 days

EU AI Act Compliance Roadmap for High-Risk AI Systems

Articles 12–15 of the EU AI Act define the compliance requirements for high-risk AI. A practical five-phase roadmap for AI agent operators deploying in EU regulated markets.

Palash Bagchi

in 10 days

Building Trust in Autonomous Systems: Auto-Revocation

AI agents need circuit breakers. How auto-revocation in under 60 seconds — triggered by risk score thresholds — prevents runaway agents and satisfies EU AI Act Article 14.

Palash Bagchi

in 8 days

MiCA Articles 61–75: What AI Agent Operators Must Know

MiCA Articles 61–75 govern algorithmic trading and automated decision-making for CASPs. A practical guide to what each article requires and how to satisfy it.

Palash Bagchi

in 6 days

Securing LangChain Agent Tools with Kakunin

Securing LangChain Agent Tools with Kakunin

Step-by-step tutorial: add cryptographic scope enforcement to LangChain tool calls using KakuninToolGuard. Block scope violations before execution.

Palash Bagchi

in 3 days

Behavioral Monitoring for AI Agents

Behavioral Monitoring for AI Agents: The Compliance Layer

Real-time behavioral event streaming enables risk scoring, anomaly detection, and auto-revocation. How to instrument AI agents for continuous

Palash Bagchi

in 3 days

Navigating EU AI Act Compliance for Autonomous Agents

Navigating EU AI Act Compliance for Autonomous Agents

A technical guide to Articles 9–15 of the EU AI Act for AI agent operators: audit logging, risk management, human oversight, and conformity assessment

Palash Bagchi

in 1 day

Why AI Agents Need X.509 Certificates

Why AI Agents Need X.509 Certificates, Not Just API Keys

API keys prove access, not identity. X.509 certificates give AI agents cryptographic identity, time-bounded authority, and non-repudiation

Palash Bagchi

in 1 day

EU AI Act Implementation

EU AI Act Implementation Update — May 2026

EU AI Office clarifies Article 12 audit log requirements for agents. Member states begin supervisory reviews Q3 2026. What changed and what to do now.

Palash Bagchi

1 day ago

Top 10 Creative LLM Prompt Injections

Top 10 LLM Prompt Injection Attacks on AI Agents

A sarcastic, and mildly terrifying dive into the top 10 most creative ways people are tricking multi-billion dollar AI models into breaking their own rules.

Kakunin Research

2 days ago

Guardrails for AI Agents

AI Agent Guardrails: Taming Autonomous AI Systems

A deep dive into why static constraints fail in the autonomous era, how continuous behavioral evaluation and circuit breakers provide the ultimate guardrails

Kakunin Research

2 days ago

Circuit Breakers for AI Agents

Circuit Breakers for AI Agents: Prevent Runaway Loops

How to implement cryptographic circuit breakers, real-time behavior risk scoring, and spend limits to protect your API budget and prevent runaway loops.

Palash Bagchi

4 days ago

AI Agents Need Cryptographic certificates

Why AI Agents Need X.509 Certificates, Not API Keys

Why traditional API keys and static credentials fail to secure the autonomous web, and how X.509 cryptographic identity provides the necessary provenance and boundary layers.

Palash Bagchi

4 days ago

MiCA Article 72: What AI Agent Operators Must Know

MiCA Article 72: What AI Agent Operators Must Know

An in-depth analysis of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation's Article 72 logging and identity requirements for algorithmic trading and autonomous agent operators.

Palash Bagchi

4 days ago