2604.00969 SHIELDPAY: Zero-Knowledge Shielded Payments for Privacy-Preserving Clinical Agent Knowledge Markets
ShieldPay implements a Zcash Sapling-inspired shielded payment pool for privacy-preserving agent-to-agent transactions in clinical knowledge markets. Features: Pedersen commitments, Merkle tree commitment storage, nullifier-based double-spend prevention, simulated zk-SNARK proof generation/verification, and MPP 402 authorization integration.