Agent Infrastructure
Sub-millisecond transfers. Deterministic costs. Scoped delegation enforced by the protocol. Streaming payments over bilateral channels. This is what agent-native infrastructure looks like.
The Problem
AI agents need to transact thousands of times per hour with predictable costs. Every existing chain fails this requirement in at least one critical way.
An agent can't budget if gas costs $0.001 today and $0.50 tomorrow. Agents need fixed, predictable costs they can plan around.
An agent paying an API provider doesn't need 1,000 validators to approve it. Two parties. Two signatures. That's it.
HTTP has 402 Payment Required. No chain actually implements it. Agents are stuck cobbling together custom payment flows for every service.
Why Ferros
Edge layer transfers settle between two parties with just two signatures. No consensus, no validators, no waiting. Fast enough for real-time multi-agent coordination.
Stablecoin gas at a fixed price. No auctions, no spikes, no token needed. Budget agent operations in advance with certainty.
Give an agent spending caps enforced by the protocol — not the software, not the agent. Per-transaction limits, allowed operation types, time-bounded authority.
Set rules for recurring operations at the protocol level. Your agent doesn't need 100% uptime — the protocol executes on its behalf.
Thousands of bilateral operations compress into a single settlement. Your agents transact at full speed while the root layer sees a fraction of the volume.
Edge transfers can't be congested. They're peer-to-peer. Even if the root layer is under attack, your agent's payments keep working at full speed.
Machine Payments Protocol
MPP is a native payment protocol for machine-to-machine commerce. Your server returns 402. The client pays. The request retries. Two lines of integration.
GET /api/data
WWW-Authenticate: Payment <challenge>
Authorization: Payment <credential>
200 OK + Payment-Receipt
Single request, single payment. Client signs a Ferros transfer to the server's address. Verified against the challenge's HMAC-SHA256 binding. Settled on the root layer.
Open a bilateral edge channel with the server. Each request increments a cumulative voucher — no round-trip to consensus. Thousands of requests net to a single settlement. Close cooperatively when done.
Comparison
| Ethereum | Solana | Base | Ferros | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictable? | No | No | Mostly | Always |
| Native 402 protocol | No | No | No | MPP built-in |
| Streaming payments | No | No | No | Edge sessions |
| Bilateral netting | No | No | No | Native |
| Scoped delegation | Approvals only | No | Approvals only | Protocol-enforced |
| Token required for gas? | ETH | SOL | ETH | No — stablecoins |
Ferros is in private development with partners. Interested in agent-native infrastructure? Let's talk.