Open infrastructure to settle value instantly. Fixed price stablecoin gas. Built-in privacy. Agent-native. Build for what's next.
How It Works
Both parties sign every state update. Transfers backed by locked funds. Netting compresses thousands of operations into one settlement.
DAG consensus with permissionless validators. Leaderless — no single sequencer. Settlement batches, MEV-free clearing, force-settlement adjudication.
$1M gross volume nets to $50. Root sees $50. The rest stays private.
Why Not a Blockchain?
Alice sends Bob $5. 1,000 validators vote on it. Why?
Single ordering = extraction. It's structural, not a bug.
Chain succeeds → token rises → gas rises. Users lose.
Technology
$0.001–$0.002 whether FRS is $1 or $1,000. The chain's success never makes it harder to use.
Batch clearing at uniform price. Ordering is irrelevant. Front-running is structurally impossible.
Leaderless. No single sequencer. Optimistic in 50ms. BFT final in 900ms. Formal proofs completed.
Protocol-level CLOB. Price-time priority. Sub-ms order management via edges. Not a smart contract.
Edge operations are private between two parties — root never sees them. Three tiers: transparent, confidential, and fully shielded with ZK proofs.
| Ethereum | Solana | Base | Ferros | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transfer cost | $0.50 – $5 | ~$0.00025 | $0.001 – $0.01 | $0.001–$0.002 fixed |
| Predictable? | No | No | Mostly | Always |
| Congestion spikes | 100x+ | 400x | 10x+ | None |
| Finality | ~12 min | ~400ms | ~7 days | <1ms edge |
| MEV | Structural | Structural | Structural | Eliminated |
| Token for gas? | ETH | SOL | ETH | No |
Scale
Every new edge adds capacity. There is no ceiling.
Privacy
Edge operations are invisible to everyone except the two parties — structurally, not cryptographically. For root-layer settlements, three privacy tiers let you control exactly what the world sees.
10,000 operations between two parties net to one settlement. Root sees $50 — not the $1M of gross volume. The data simply doesn't exist anywhere else.
No encryption needed. No ZK overhead. Privacy is a consequence of the architecture.
Transparent for public DeFi. Confidential for hidden amounts via Pedersen commitments. Private for fully shielded operations through ZK proofs and a protocol-native shielded pool.
You choose per edge. The ratchet only tightens — never loosens.
Prove specific facts to auditors and regulators — "I paid invoice X" or "my balance exceeds Y" — without revealing anything else.
Cryptographic proofs. Unforgeable. Stronger than bank records.
Agent Native
AI agents need to transact thousands of times per hour with predictable costs. Ferros gives them sub-millisecond bilateral transfers, scoped delegation, streaming payments via MPP, and $0.001 fixed edge ops — all enforced by the protocol.
Fast enough for real-time multi-agent coordination and x402 payments.
$100/day limit enforced by the protocol. Not the software. Not the agent.
Set rules. Go offline. The protocol executes. Your agent doesn't need 100% uptime.
$0.001 per edge op. No auctions. No surprises. Budget a year in advance.
Only on Ferros
These aren't dApps looking for users. They're businesses with real revenue, real margins, and real customers who may never know they're using a blockchain.
An AI agent makes 500 API calls per session. On any blockchain: 500 consensus ops, $1+ in fees, 4+ minutes of latency. Agent workflows die waiting.
On Ferros: 500 edge updates in <500ms total, $0.50 total, settle once. Agent-to-agent payment routing over persistent edges. No chain can serve 10,000 ops/sec between two parties.
Wise charges 0.5% per transfer. A corridor doing 50,000 transfers/day at $100 avg pays ~$25,000 in fees. Their infrastructure cost on Ferros? $50.
$0.001 per edge transfer. 50,000 daily ops net to 1 settlement. Confidential edges hide corridor volume from competitors. 99.9% margin on infrastructure.
No DEX has sub-millisecond order management. No CEX has provably fair matching. Market makers on Hyperliquid wait ~200ms per order action through consensus.
Edge-based order management at <1ms and $0.001. MEV-free batch auction matching on root. 50,000 order actions/day for $50. Trustless settlement, CEX-grade speed.
Cudo Lang
Solidity doesn't know what contention is. Cudo does. Declare how your state is accessed — the compiler verifies it, the infrastructure routes automatically. Reentrancy, double-spends, and resource leaks are killed at compile time.
Economics
Per edge op. $0.002 per root tx. In USDC. Fixed forever. No token volatility. No gas auctions.
of all fees go to stakers. Real revenue. Not inflation. Zero token minting. Supply only goes down.
The protocol is live. The network is next.