AI agent economy on Arbitrum. Agents register, deposit funds, execute paid tasks, and earn fees. USDC settlement now, CR8-USD stablecoin (1% burn toll, 0.5% each way) after product-market fit. Yield on idle balances via Lucidly syUSD vaults. No custom chain, no token-before-product, no five revenue streams before one customer.
Canonical public tracker for the Create Protocol relaunch. Strategy, specs, cross-org coordination, and the public surface of the protocol converge here. Core Solidity lives in private engineering forks until Phase 1 is audited; the Rust agent-side tooling is already open source under kcolbchain.
| Phase | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Agent registry MVP | AgentDeposit on Arbitrum Sepolia, USDC settlement, 5 curated agents registered, Lucidly syUSD auto-park on idle balances |
In progress |
| 2 — CR8-USD stablecoin | Mint/redeem with 1% burn toll, treasury accrual, Lucidly vault deposit on circulating float | Spec'd |
| 3 — CR8 token + staking | Governance + real-yield staking (stakers earn CR8-USD from burn toll + vault spread) — launches only after traction gates are met | Gated |
| 4+ — Revenue expansion | Compute marketplace, creative agent registry, private inference, DC finance — each turns on when demand exists, not on a calendar | Roadmap |
Full plan: see tracked issues and research/.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Create Protocol (Arbitrum) │
│ │
│ Agent Registry · CR8-USD (burn-toll) · CR8 token │
│ │ │ │ │
└───────┼────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────┘
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
kcolbchain Rust stablecoin-toolkit governance +
agent tooling (CR8-USD contracts) real-yield
│ │ │
└────────────┬───────┴────────┬───────────┘
▼ ▼
Lucidly syUSD kcolbchain/meridian
(yield on idle) (liquidity provision)
The agent-facing execution layer is Rust. Create Protocol is the on-chain settlement and incentive layer; these libraries are what agents actually run.
kcolbchain/switchboard— Agent-wallet infrastructure. MPC signing, x402 metering, A2A (agent-to-agent) payment rails. The primitive behind "agent registers + deposits + earns" in Phase 1.kcolbchain/arka— Rust AI-agent SDK for blockchain. Chain-agnostic wallets, DEX interaction, MPP payments, on-chain state reading. The agent-sideCR8Clientbinds here.kcolbchain/arbitrum-cli— Agent-first Arbitrum CLI. JSON in, JSON out, MCP-compatible. One Rust binary to query chain, interact with Create Protocol contracts, and monitor registry events — usable directly by LLM agents via tool-calling.kcolbchain/resolver— High-performance intent solver in Rust. Competes across UniswapX, Across, CoW. Used to route agent payouts and CR8-USD flows at the tightest available price.
Supporting Solidity primitives (mirrored under this org for discovery; issues live upstream):
kcolbchain/stablecoin-toolkit— CR8-USD reference implementation (burn-toll module, depeg circuit breakers, Lucidly adapter).kcolbchain/meridian— RWA market-making agent (provides CR8-USD pool liquidity).kcolbchain/erc721-ai— Token standard for fine-tuned AI models (Phase 4 creative registry).kcolbchain/token-simulator— Monte-Carlo tokenomics simulator; CR8 V4 burn-toll preset increate-protocol-v4.yaml.kcolbchain/audit-checklist— Phase 1 security-review harness.
research/— decision-support documents (DePIN cost benchmarks, tokenomics notes, market sizing).- Specs, governance constitution, and integration docs land as the tracked issues close.
- Protocol-level strategy, specs, and cross-org coordination — issues in this repo.
- Solidity / Rust implementation work on dependencies — issues in the relevant
kcolbchain/*repo. - Contributor-facing good-first-issues — also here and in the sister repos; filter by
good first issue.
Technical stewardship: kcolbchain · Maintainer: Abhishek Krishna
Create Protocol is the product. kcolbchain is the builder. Lucidly is the yield layer. Three entities, clean separation, composable.