A market-making mandate the MM physically can't break. Inventory stays in a contract that owns every order and only gets paid for liquidity the chain can prove.
Market makers get paid to quote. Nobody checks that they do.
Covenant turns the mandate into a contract. The inventory sits in escrow, every trade is checked against the agreed band and size, and fees only accrue on intervals that were actually quoted.
Building Covenant: a simpler way for token teams and market makers to work together.
Today an issuer hands a market maker tokens and hopes they don't oversell.
Covenant keeps the inventory in a smart contract and enforces the agreed rules automatically.
crazy demo video soon :)