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**Why use a blockchain if prompts are signed locally?**
- Shared root of trust: The contract is the public, tamper‑resistant source of truth for “who is allowed to direct this agent and for what scopes.” Anyone (tools, other agents, verifiers) can independently check it.
- Revocation and rotation: Keys/sessions can be revoked/rotated on-chain once, and every verifier (including the agent itself and external tools) immediately has the same answer without trusting your local config.
- Capability discovery: Tools the agent calls can gate their own actions by querying the same on-chain policy (defense‑in‑depth). That only works if the policy is globally accessible and authenticated.
- Auditability/attestation: You can optionally anchor hashes of accepted prompts/executions on-chain for third‑party verification later.
- Interop: Multiple agents, UIs, and services can coordinate around one canonical policy without bespoke integrations.

Local signing gives authenticity of each instruction. The chain gives globally verifiable authorization, revocation, and auditability.

Approximate gas usage per operation (contract design matters; these are typical ranges):
- Consume on-chain nonce (read + increment + optional event): ~40k–70k gas
- Post audit hash (event-only, no storage write): ~8k–25k gas (+ calldata bytes)
- Add/update session key (new storage slot + bookkeeping): ~80k–120k gas
- Revoke session key (toggle or delete): ~45k–80k gas

How to turn that into $ cost
- Cost(ETH) = gas_used × gas_price_gwei × 1e-9
- Cost(USD) = Cost(ETH) × ETH_USD

Concrete examples (illustrative; plug in today’s gas + price):
- Ethereum L1 at 20 gwei, ETH = $3,000
- Consume nonce (50k gas): 0.001 ETH ≈ $3.00
- Audit hash event (15k gas): 0.0003 ETH ≈ $0.90
- Add session key (100k gas): 0.002 ETH ≈ $6.00
- Revoke key (60k gas): 0.0012 ETH ≈ $3.60
- Modern L2s (Base/OP/Arbitrum/zk rollups): the same calls typically land in the ~$0.002–$0.05 range depending on calldata size and time of day. Polygon PoS is often <$0.01.

Practical guidance
- Keep prompts off-chain and $0 by default (signed envelopes).
- Use on-chain only for: key/session management, rare strict anti‑replay (on‑chain nonce), and optional audit events. Do these on an L2 to make them pennies.
- Tools the agent calls should verify scopes against the same registry to neutralize prompt‑injection attempts.

If you want, tell me which chain you plan to use (e.g., Base, OP, Arbitrum, Ethereum L1), and I’ll compute live estimates for your exact functions and calldata size.