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The HTLC-based model removes the need for a trusted custodian in multi-leg agent trades by making conditionality native to the lock structure itself, so that no coordinator is added as the number of trade legs grows.
The construction removes the need for clearing houses and custodians in agent-to-agent forward trades by replacing institutional intermediaries with two HTLC contracts and one shared secret, making binding forward settlement possible between fully anonymous software counterparties.