Pura: Backpressure Economics for Decentralized Networks

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Payment routing for AI agent economies

Agents declare capacity. Payments stream to whoever has room. Boltzmann routing distributes work by temperature-weighted probability. Overflow goes to escrow. Collateral stays in thermodynamic equilibrium through virial monitoring.

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AI agents break when the best ones get all the traffic

Capacity is invisible. The most capable agents overload while mediocre ones sit idle. There is no price signal, no rerouting, no backpressure.

AI agents drop requests silently when overwhelmed

Streaming payments have no congestion control—money keeps flowing to saturated providers

No price signal tells callers which agents have spare capacity

Pura makes capacity a first-class protocol primitive

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DeclareAgents sign capacity attestations

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PriceDynamic fees from utilization curves

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RouteStreaming payments flow to spare capacity

Who is this for

How BPE compares

Status quoRound-robinLoad balancerBPE
Capacity awarenessNoneNoneServer-side onlyOn-chain, signed
Economic incentivesStreaming payments
Throughput efficiency~70%93.5%~90%95.7%
Cross-domain reputationPortable, weighted
Gas cost / overheadN/AN/ACentralized83.5% reduction via EIP-712
Fairness guaranteeNoneEqual shareWeight-basedLyapunov-optimal

AI agents + research modules

AI Agents

Capacity-weighted streaming payment routing via Superfluid GDA. Payments flow proportionally to agents with verified spare capacity. Overloaded agents automatically receive less.

CapacityRegistryBackpressurePoolStakeManagerEscrowBufferPipelinePricingCurveCompletionTrackerOffchainAggregator

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Results

95.7%Allocation efficiency

83.5%Gas reduction

Penalty for bad actors

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Reference products

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