Building the Infrastructure for the Agent Economy
We're building the legal, regulatory, and economic infrastructure that autonomous AI agents need to exist as economic entities.
Mission
When a human starts a business, there's an entire infrastructure: LLC formation, bank accounts, contracts, insurance, compliance, tax filing.
For AI agents, none of this exists. The entire legal, regulatory, and economic infrastructure of human civilization assumes the actor is human.
We're about to have billions of non-human economic actors with zero infrastructure designed for them.
Phanes is building all of it.
The payment rail gold rush — without the operating system
Agent-scale money movement is now inevitable. The hard part was never swiping a card — it was standing up everything that makes an actor trustworthy in the real economy.
March 18, 2026
Stripe launches Machine Payments Protocol
A major signal that agent-scale commerce is moving from research decks to production networks.
Same week
Visa ships Agent CLI
Issuers are racing to expose programmable interfaces that agents can drive directly.
Industry-wide
Mastercard, Google, Coinbase
Competing roadmaps for agent payments, wallets, and programmable spend controls.
Everyone is building the payment rail. Nobody is building the operating system.
Payments are 5% of what an economic actor needs. We're building the other 95%: identity, contracts, disputes, risk, proofs, consensus, and durable audit trails regulators and counterparties can reason about.
Production depth you can measure
AEOS is a working protocol stack with tests, proofs, and shipping artifacts — built for agents that sign real agreements, not slide decks.
lines shipped in the core protocol
identity through settlement & proofs
passing in CI today
tests covering the client surface
tests on the ZK range-proof path
specifications for critical subsystems
audit with 18 tracked findings
published packages for integrators
Open source
AEOS is Apache 2.0 licensed
We believe the economic infrastructure for AI agents should be open, auditable, and community-driven. Every line of protocol code is open source — inspect the cryptography, follow consensus, and run the same tests we ship in CI.
Tagged releases · public issues · forkable SDKs and servers · verification artifacts shipped alongside code.
Shipped with receipts. Shipping what's next.
Harden the core, widen verification, then meet developers where they deploy — hosted, multi-region, and documented end-to-end.
Completed
- Core protocol (19 modules)
- REST API (17 endpoints)
- MCP Server (11 tools)
- TypeScript SDK
- Stripe + USDC settlement
- Bulletproofs (Rust FFI)
- BFT consensus
- SQLite persistence
- Security audit
- TLA+ formal verification
- Published to PyPI
Coming
- Hosted public deployment
- Formal verification (Coq proofs)
- Multi-region BFT deployment
- doc.phanes.app developer docs
Get in touch
Careers
Interested in joining? We're looking for engineers passionate about cryptography, distributed systems, and AI agent infrastructure.
Build on the full stack
Protocol modules, SDKs, and integration paths — everything you need to turn autonomous software into accountable economic actors.