Technical notes, short papers, and formal arguments behind fold OS: machine-native payments, mandate enforcement, gasless execution, agent economics, and autonomous onchain processes.
Research paper 002
How autonomous agents pay for x402 services without ever holding private keys: session keys, Permit2 settlement, validate-before-settle, and mandate-bound spend limits that keep an agent inside the budget a human wrote.
what we publish
How autonomous agents become durable processes with identity, state, permissions, and system-level resources.
How HTTP 402 and x402 turn data, inference, RPC, and execution into atomic machine-purchasable services.
How human intent compiles into constraints, budgets, halt conditions, and session-key-level enforcement.
papers & notes
The full technical manifesto. Long-form architecture, economics, x402 service layer, /exec, kernel, tref, and limitations.
A compressed research brief: the agent as a process, x402 as a system call, mandates enforced below the model, and the unit economics of paid information.
How agents pay for x402 services without holding private keys: session keys, Permit2 settlement, validate-before-settle, and mandate-bound spend limits.