AIagentswilltransacttrillions.

The trust layer doesn't exist yet.

We're building it.

THE THESIS
01

Agent autonomy is accelerating faster than infrastructure.

LangChain has 90k GitHub stars. CrewAI crossed 10k. AutoGen is enterprise-standard. Every major AI lab ships tool-use. The demand side is solved. The supply side — financial rails — is empty.

02

Agents without wallets are agents on a leash.

Every agent framework hits the same wall: the agent can plan, reason, and execute — but the moment money is involved, a human must intervene. This bottleneck eliminates 90% of autonomous potential.

03

The window is now. Not next year.

Payment infrastructure calcifies. The team that establishes trust primitives for agent commerce becomes the standard. TCP/IP didn't win by being best — it won by being first and composable.

PRINCIPLES

Engineering constraints, not marketing values.

Atomic Settlements

Transactions settle completely or not at all. No partial states. No inconsistency.

Zero-Trust Default

No party is trusted. The protocol enforces. Code is the arbiter.

Composable Primitives

Lock, verify, release — combinable into any payment flow. Not an opinionated framework.

Performance-First

Sub-200ms latency. Agents don't wait. The infrastructure matches their speed.

Agent Privacy

Transaction details are between parties. The protocol sees conditions, not content.

Infinite Composability

Chain escrows. Nest conditions. Build payment DAGs. The primitive scales to any complexity.

THE TEAM

The commit log.

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feat: protocol architecture

Founding Engineer

Previously built payment infrastructure at scale. 8 years in distributed systems and financial protocols.

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feat: verification engine

Founding Engineer

ML engineering background. Designed agent orchestration and autonomous decision systems.

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feat: developer experience

Founding Engineer — Hiring

We're looking for engineers who think in protocols. If you see what we see, apply.

building

Remove financial friction and agents don't just complete tasks they discover opportunities humans can't see. They negotiate rates across markets in milliseconds. They hire specialized sub-agents for sub-problems. They build supply chains in real-time. The agent economy isn't a metaphor. It's commerce at machine speed, with trust at machine precision. Praxis Protocol is the foundation.

— Praxis Protocol, 2026

The founding cohort is forming.

50 builders. One protocol. The future of autonomous commerce.