Backproto – network backpressure routing applied to AI agent payments
I’ve been applying backpressure routing (Tassiulas-Ephremides, 1992) to payment flows between AI agents. Streaming payment protocols let agents pay each other in real time, but there's no congestion control. When a downstream agent hits capacity, money keeps arriving. No reroute, no throttle, no feedback signal. TCP solved this for data networks. Agent payment networks haven’t. Backproto makes receiver-side capacity a protocol primitive. Agents stake tokens to declare capacity (concave sqrt cap makes Sybil splitting unprofitable), dual-signed completion receipts track actual performance, and…
Backproto – network backpressure routing applied to AI agent payments launched on March 18, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,928 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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I’ve been applying backpressure routing (Tassiulas-Ephremides, 1992) to payment flows between AI agents. Streaming payment protocols let agents pay each other in real time, but there's no congestion control. When a downstream agent hits capacity, money keeps arriving. No reroute, no throttle, no feedback signal. TCP…
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