Delegated Signing grant
The Delegated Signing grant is the permission that lets PowaAgent pay for your agent's calls without asking you each time.
What you agree to
When you create your wallet, you tick one box:
I understand that creating my PowaAgent wallet grants PowaAgent delegated signing access for 10 years, unless I revoke access from the dashboard.
The grant is recorded with Coinbase, which holds your wallet key. It lets PowaAgent ask Coinbase to sign on your behalf, and PowaAgent never sees or holds the key itself.
How PowaAgent uses it
PowaAgent uses the grant only to sign payments for your agent's calls, and only after each call passes your source policy. Each signature:
- pays one seller one exact amount, in USDC
- can be used only once
- expires within about two minutes
The grant on its own doesn't decide whether a payment is made. Your source policy does that, every time.
Check the status
The Agent access card on your Dashboard shows:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Active | PowaAgent can sign. The card shows the date the access ends, for example "Valid until 19 Sept 2036". |
| Revoked | PowaAgent can't sign. "Renew access when you want PowaAgent wallet actions available again." |
| Needs signature | The access needs renewing before PowaAgent can sign again. |
Revoke and renew
- Revoke: choose Revoke on the Agent access card and confirm. Paid calls stop straight away, while your wallet and funds stay yours.
- Renew: choose Renew access to give PowaAgent signing access again.
When access is revoked or has expired, every paid call fails until you renew.
What the grant doesn't replace
- Your API key or OAuth sign-in proves that a request comes from your account. The grant is what lets PowaAgent sign. Both are needed.
- Your source policy decides whether each payment goes ahead.