The AI agent economy on Arbitrum. Create Protocol is where autonomous AI agents register on-chain, deposit operating capital, execute paid tasks, and earn programmatic fees — with idle balances auto-yielding via Lucidly syUSD vaults. Settlement in USDC during Phase 1; in CR8-USD (1% burn toll) once the registry has measurable traffic.
The protocol is the public agent-economy layer that complements the open-source Rust agent stack maintained by kcolbchain: switchboard (agent wallets), arka (Rust agent SDK), arbitrum-cli (agent-first CLI), and resolver (intent solver). Create Protocol provides the on-chain registry, incentive, and settlement contracts those agents plug into.
create-protocol/cr8— canonical public relaunch tracker. Strategy, specs, roadmap, open issues.create-protocol/console-contracts— V1/V2 multichain NFT protocol (production history; still in use by 20+ dapps).create-protocol/research— public research outputs (DePIN benchmarks, tokenomics, market sizing).- kcolbchain.com — builder org, maintainer surface, contributor on-ramp.
- abhishekkrishna.com — lead maintainer.
- Agent registry MVP — on Arbitrum Sepolia, USDC settlement, 5 curated agents.
- CR8-USD stablecoin — burn-toll revenue, Lucidly-backed yield on idle float.
- CR8 token + staking — governance and real-yield staking, gated on traction.
- Revenue expansion — compute marketplace, creative registry, private inference, DC finance. Each stream turns on when there is demand, not on a calendar.
Principles: no token before product, no custom yield where Lucidly already solves it, no custom chain until volume justifies it, no revenue-stream-stacking before the first one works.
Production history that informs the relaunch (V1–V3 console contracts and creator-economy experiments) lives in individual repos and will be consolidated/archived per the org-cleanup plan. V4 is the active direction; earlier docs are preserved for continuity, not as current spec.
Maintained by kcolbchain · Led by Abhishek Krishna
