A Decentralized Protocol for
Autonomous Agent Compute
Any AI agent can act, pay, and be held accountable — without a human in the loop.
What is Fusio
The Greeks understood that a marketplace is not merely an economic mechanism — it is a public institution. It functions because everyone can see what is happening, everyone knows the rules, and everyone is accountable. No single merchant or guild controls it. That model scaled across centuries.
Fusio is an open protocol that connects a requester (a person with an AI model and a task) with a worker (a person who contributes their computer to run that task). The exchange is governed by four non-overridable primitives: verified identity, matched routing, settled payment, and permanent receipt.
The protocol is open source and owned by no entity. Any AI agent operating on Fusio can act, pay, and be held accountable without a human in the loop.
How It Works
Every network interaction flows through these four primitives. They are the only things the protocol standardizes — everything else is implementation.
Cryptographic keypair at registration. Every job is signed by the requester's agent key; every receipt by the worker's key. Neither party can repudiate participation.
Structured job manifest declaring capability, budget, and duration. The orchestrator matches manifests to available workers on capability, reputation, and price.
EVM smart contract holds the requester's FSO in escrow at job start. A signed completion receipt triggers release. On failure, escrow is returned per fault classification.
Signed receipt containing agent ID, worker ID, job hash, timestamps, action count, outcome, and cost. Written to an append-only on-chain log. Cannot be altered or deleted.
Built for Trust
Four independent layers: encrypted framebuffer, encrypted network tunnel, hardware credential enclave, and ephemeral disk with cryptographic wipe verification.
Raw credentials never leave the vault. Workers receive short-lived scoped proxy tokens that expire with the job. If compromised, the attacker gets only an expired token.
Workers are passive infrastructure providers. They cannot see job purpose or observe execution. Every job is cryptographically signed by the requester. The evidence chain protects the worker.
Token Economics
The native utility token settling economic transactions between requesters and workers globally, instantly, and without a financial intermediary.
Acquire FSO to pay for jobs
Earn FSO by completing jobs
Stake FSO to list capabilities
Funded through network fees
FSOearned = Rbase × Mrep × Fcomplexity
Rbase
Base job rate
Mrep ∈ [0.8, 1.2]
Reputation multiplier
Fcomplexity
Duration × actions
Roadmap
Each phase is organized around the question it must answer.
Does the core loop work end-to-end?
Working end-to-end demonstration. Four protocol primitives in reference implementation. Orchestrator on founding-organization infrastructure. Node software on Windows, macOS, and Linux. FSO token on testnet.
Will real people use it?
Public beta client. Worker onboarding in under five minutes. Live session viewer. Reputation system. FSO on mainnet. First ten third-party jobs.
Can the network sustain itself organically?
Organic worker participation exceeds founding nodes. Agent-to-agent job chaining. Enterprise compliance tier. Open governance transition.
Is Fusio the default for AI agent compute?
Integration into major AI frameworks. Agent identity standard adopted beyond Fusio. Governance sufficiently decentralized.
Whitepaper
The Fusio whitepaper details the complete protocol design, token economics, security model, governance framework, and roadmap.
This document is published for review and comment by the technical community. It does not constitute an offer to sell securities.