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Casper Network Publishes the Casper Manifest: Nine Initiatives to Power Regulated RWAs and the Machine Economy
The Casper Association has published the Casper Manifest — a multi-year technical roadmap designed to establish Casper Network as the infrastructure layer for regulated real-world asset tokenization and the emerging machine-to-machine economy.
The Manifest was introduced by Casper Association President & CTO Michael Steuer at the Digital Finance Forum in Bermuda, before an audience of leaders from Web3, traditional finance, and institutional finance.
Built on the foundation of major protocol releases delivered since mid-2025 — including Casper 2.0 with deterministic finality and a multi-VM execution layer — the Manifest sets out nine coordinated initiatives organized around a single goal: making blockchain frictionless for users, trusted by institutions, and native for machines.
 
The roadmap advances EVM compatibility on Casper’s WebAssembly foundation, gasless transactions, and smart accounts for simpler user experiences, and expands the compliance, privacy, micropayment, native token, and quantum-safe cryptography infrastructure required for real-world assets and autonomous systems to operate with greater predictability and less friction.
Building the Infrastructure for Regulated Assets and Autonomous Systems
The nine core initiatives outlined in the Casper Manifest are organized around the following areas:
Access for every developer. The largest blockchain developer ecosystem is built on Ethereum tooling — Solidity, MetaMask, and thousands of audited smart contract libraries. Casper is adding full EVM compatibility alongside its existing WebAssembly execution engines, allowing developers to bring existing contracts, tools, and wallets to Casper without modification. A native token registry provides equal access to tokens from either execution environment. One chain, two execution environments, zero fragmentation.
Blockchain that’s frictionless for the user. Someone else pays your transaction fees. Multiple steps collapse into a single action. You sign in with your fingerprint instead of managing cryptographic keys. The Casper Manifest delivers gasless transactions, batch operations, and smart accounts with biometric authentication — so using a blockchain application feels like using any other app.
Compliance and privacy as one system. Casper will be the first Layer 1 where regulatory compliance and transaction privacy are designed to work together — not in tension, but as two sides of the same architecture. Compliant security tokens with on-chain identity verification, transfer restrictions, and jurisdictional controls are built in alignment with the ERC-3643 standard, which already governs $28 billion in tokenized assets on-chain. As a member of the ERC-3643 Association, Casper is actively helping to expand the standard. Alongside compliance, a multi-phase privacy roadmap delivers confidential transactions with fixed, predictable costs — and built-in tools for auditors and regulators to verify compliance without exposing transaction details publicly. The combination is purpose-built for the $16 trillion real-world asset tokenization market.
Native infrastructure for the machine economy. AI agents need to pay for services programmatically — per API call, per data query, per computation — without subscriptions, invoices, or human intermediaries. As a member of the X402 Foundation, Casper is implementing the X402 open payment standard, enabling machines to pay each other over HTTP in stablecoins and other fungible tokens. Casper expects to become the first WebAssembly-native Layer 1 with production X402 support. The same smart accounts and gasless infrastructure built for human users give AI agents scoped spending permissions and autonomous operation out of the box — with best-in-class controls and compliance built in from the start.
Tokens as first-class citizens. On most blockchains, user-created tokens are smart contracts — significantly more expensive to operate than the network’s native currency. Casper’s Native Token Registry changes that by elevating every token to protocol-level status, with the same fixed, predictable costs as native transfers. One pricing model for all tokens. One shared infrastructure layer across WebAssembly, EVM, and any future execution environment on Casper Network — forming the backbone for everything from DeFi to compliant security tokens to private, confidential transfers.
Quantum-safe from the start. No major smart contract platform has shipped post-quantum transaction signing. Casper will — with hybrid accounts that carry both classical and quantum-resistant keys throughout the transition period. For institutions evaluating blockchain platforms for decade-long deployments, the answer to “what happens when quantum computers arrive?” will be production code, not a research paper.
“Much of the industry is focused on either maximizing hype or iterating on concepts that service the same existing, crypto-native use cases. Few are building the infrastructure that will onboard the next billion users, the next trillion dollars in tokenized assets, or the first billion machines,” said Michael Steuer, President and CTO of the Casper Association. “Executing the Casper Manifest means that developers can bring over their entire EVM stack. For users, blockchain should be invisible. One tap. Done. For institutions, Casper’s roadmap provides on-chain compliance, transaction privacy, and quantum safety. And machines need payment rails that don’t require a human, while being bound to spending limits set by their owners on their smart accounts. That’s the future-proof infrastructure Casper is putting in place.”
Timeline
The nine initiatives roll out in phases, each building on the last.
X402 micropayments ships first, expected within the next few weeks. Later in 2026, Casper will deliver EVM compatibility, network hardening, and compliant security tokens, followed by the Native Token Registry, gasless transactions, batch operations, and smart accounts. Transaction privacy and quantum safety build on these earlier foundations and extend the roadmap through 2027.
Formal protocol enhancement proposals for each initiative will be published ahead of their respective launches.
Explore a deep dive of the Casper Manifest here: https://casper.network/news/manifest
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