ECONOMIC FINALITY

Settlement can depend on provable outcome without collapsing outcome into payment.

A payment may settle while delivery, title, acceptance or a wider contractual obligation remains open. Finality keeps those predicates distinct.

Commercial obligation graph

Mandate → purchase → payment → delivery → title → acceptance → recourse.

The Outcome Contract declares which predicates must be satisfied before a relying settlement system may treat the configured condition as met.

Finality emits a condition result; custody remains external.

Extends atomic exchange thinking beyond ledger transfer to real-world obligations.

Release or substitution can depend on a configured Finality predicate.

Ongoing obligations can expire, contradict and REOPEN.

Finality can supply a release condition without acting as escrow agent.

If restoration is impossible, an authorized compensation obligation becomes a new Outcome Contract.