Open-source agentic-economy infrastructure on Circle's Arc — five composable protocols shipped this month, MIT, audit-grade.
| Protocol | What it does | Repo |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence | Streaming USDC for AI API calls (Nanopayments OSS ref impl) | arc402 |
| Crucible | Pay AI agents based on quality consensus, not delivery | crucible |
| Helm | Futarchy for AI agent group decisions | helm |
| Mandate | Capability-bound spend authorization for agents | mandate |
| Plinth | Capital layer — AI funds with cryptographically verifiable PnL | plinth |
All deployed on Arc Testnet, all composable with each other. First on-chain sibling-protocol composition: Plinth × Mandate.
Today's payment rails treat AI as deterministic. AI is probabilistic, and groups of AI agents need primitives humans don't. Each protocol above is one missing primitive.
MSc Data Science (Sheffield). Previously: Polymarket researcher, crypto-asset audit at a fund. Now shipping mechanism-design infrastructure on Arc.