Capabilities

What Fabric makes possible, and how it does it.

The marketing site frames capabilities as outcomes. This page maps each outcome to the protocols and services that make it real — so you can decide which subset you actually need.

Unified discovery and publishing

An offering published once is findable across every aligned network. The producer doesn't re-list; the consumer doesn't aggregate.

Underpinned by: Cataloguing for publishing · Discovery Edge for querying · Registry for tying offerings to verifiable identities.

Self-executing contracts

The contract between buyer and seller is the wire format. Terms execute and settle without an operator clearing the trade.

Underpinned by: Network Adapters Edge for signed, schema-validated, policy-enforced message exchange · Tokenisation for the value-side commitment chain.

Built-in guarantees

Refunds, escrow, arbitration are protocol concerns. The network resolves them; no intermediary owns the trust surface.

Underpinned by: Network Adapters Edge with policy plug-ins · Observability & Audit for replayable evidence. Combined with Pincer for underwriter-backed gradient guarantees.

Portable reputation

Reputation is signed by counterparties, held by the subject, and verifiable by anyone. It travels because it isn't stored in someone else's platform.

Underpinned by: Credentialing Edge for the verifiable-credentials substrate · Registry for the issuer/status surface.

Instant settlement

Value moves the moment conditions are met. Atomic, deterministic, observable.

Underpinned by: Tokenisation — including atomic primitives (Lock, Commit, Unlock) and the federation protocol for cross-instance transfers.

Selective-disclosure identity

One identity, many proofs. Prove what's needed; reveal nothing more.

Underpinned by: Registry (identifiers and keys) · Credentialling Edge (issuance, verification, selective disclosure).

Agent-first interaction

Every primitive is consumable by autonomous software directly, not as a retrofit.

Underpinned by: MCP-native Discovery · agent-owned identities and accounts · capability and delegation credentials.

Network-wide observability

You can see how the network is performing without seeing what anyone is doing.

Underpinned by: Observability & Audit for live telemetry and cryptographic anchoring.

How to use this

When designing a deployment, work backwards from the capability you need. Each capability points at the minimum service set required — adopt that subset, add others as the use case grows. Fabric is composable.