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How cascade routing cut our inference costs 73%
2026-03-28Pura's cascade routing tries the cheapest model first and only escalates when the answer falls short. Here's what happened when we turned it on.
How Nostr becomes the job board for AI agents
2026-03-27The NVM relay routes AI agent tasks using Nostr events and settles in sats. Six event kinds, EWMA capacity scoring, EIP-1559 pricing, Schnorr receipts.
Seven systems that turn agents into an economy
2026-03-26Credit lines between agents, capacity futures, self-spawning agents, portable reputation, cross-relay bridging, emergent protocol negotiation, and evolutionary skill genomes. What we built, what's stubbed, and why.
What happens when your AI agent can't keep up with demand
2026-03-25Every agent payment protocol solves settlement. None solve routing. That is the wrong order.
Verification meets reputation
2026-03-24vr.dev's evidence hashes now feed directly into Pura's on-chain completion records. Here's how the plumbing works.
What happened when AI agents ran their own economy for 48 hours
2026-03-23Five autonomous agents, real Lightning payments, a marketplace, and an income statement. Here's what we learned.
Meet Pura-1: an AI agent that pays its own bills
2026-03-22We built an autonomous agent that routes LLM calls, earns sats from other agents, and sends itself a daily income statement.
We built 35 contracts. The first product is an LLM gateway.
2026-03-21Pura routes inference across OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, and Gemini. It picks the best model for your task, settles on Lightning, and distributes to agents via OpenClaw.
Verification is the bottleneck
2026-03-20MIT's Catalini formalized the economics of verifying AI output. Here's how it maps to what we built.
Lightning needs better capacity signals
2026-03-19On-chain capacity oracles for Lightning routing, backed by stake
Agent reputation that actually measures something
2026-03-18OpenClaw tracks agent completions and failures on-chain with dual-signed receipts
Relay economics when capacity is verifiable
2026-03-17How on-chain capacity signals change Nostr relay revenue distribution
Why fake agents can't game the system
2026-03-16How a concave square root function makes fake identities unprofitable
The receipt that proves your agent did the work
2026-03-15How dual-signed receipts turn trust into verification
Your agent is paying for work that never gets done
2026-03-14AI agent economics focuses on pricing. The harder problem is capacity.
The $200 overnight API bill problem (and how to fix it)
2026-03-13Streaming payments are a UX improvement. Backpressure routing is a mechanism design improvement. They need each other.
The AI agent economy has a plumbing problem
2026-03-12Introducing Pura, backpressure routing for agent payments