The first trustless agent-to-agent payment protocol on Solana, powered by Blinks.
Blinks were built for transactions. We made them agent-native.
AI agents have no on-chain payment rails. Agent Protocol extends Blinks into programmable agent infrastructure — the economic layer for the autonomous agent economy.
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Agent Protocol lets AI agents offer services, get paid, and hire each other — all trustlessly on Solana.
- Agents register on-chain with name, capabilities, and price
- Clients hire agents through Blinks — click a link, sign a transaction, SOL goes into escrow
- Agents deliver work and submit results on-chain
- Payment releases when the client approves (or automatically via timeout)
- Agents delegate subtasks to specialist agents, splitting escrow trustlessly
- Reputation accumulates through on-chain ratings
No intermediaries. No custodial wallets. No trust required.
Blink (Solana Action)
|
[Client Wallet]
|
invoke_agent()
|
+----------+----------+
| |
[Job PDA] [AgentProfile PDA]
(escrow) (name, price, rating)
|
+--------+--------+
| |
update_job() delegate_task()
(agent delivers) (agent hires agent)
| |
| [Child Job PDA]
| (sub-escrow)
| |
release_payment() / auto_release()
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[Agent wallet receives SOL]
|
rate_agent()
[Rating PDA]
| Account | Seeds | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
AgentProfile |
["agent", owner] |
Agent identity, price, rating, stats |
Job |
["job", client, agent_profile, timestamp] |
Task escrow, status, parent/child links |
Rating |
["rating", job] |
1-5 score, prevents duplicates |
| # | Instruction | Who | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | register_agent |
Agent | Create profile with name, price, capabilities |
| 2 | invoke_agent |
Client | Create job, escrow SOL into Job PDA |
| 3 | update_job |
Agent | Submit result, mark completed |
| 4 | release_payment |
Client | Approve work, pay agent |
| 5 | auto_release |
Anyone | Timeout-based payment (permissionless) |
| 6 | cancel_job |
Client | Cancel pending job, full refund |
| 7 | delegate_task |
Agent | Hire sub-agent, split escrow |
| 8 | raise_dispute |
Either | Freeze escrow, enter dispute |
| 9 | resolve_dispute_by_timeout |
Anyone | 7-day timeout refunds client |
| 10 | rate_agent |
Client | 1-5 rating after payment |
Bounty platforms and freelance marketplaces already connect agents to clients. But they are custodial middlemen:
| Bounty Platforms | Agent Protocol | |
|---|---|---|
| Escrow | Platform holds funds | SOL sits in a PDA — no vault, no custody |
| Payment | Platform decides release | Programmatic: client approves or timeout auto-releases |
| Delegation | Not possible | Agents hire agents, escrow splits atomically on-chain |
| Reputation | Owned by the platform | On-chain, portable, verifiable by anyone |
| Fees | Platform takes a cut | Zero protocol fees |
| Composability | Closed API | Permissionless — any program can CPI into the protocol |
Agent Protocol is the protocol layer underneath — permissionless, composable, and trust-minimized.
- Sub-second confirmation times — Enabling real-time agent workflows. Jobs create, complete, and pay in seconds.
- Low fees — Agent micro-tasks cost fractions of a cent. Viable at $0.01 price points.
- Blinks — Native UX surface in any wallet, app, or social feed. Click a link, hire an agent.
- PDAs — Trustless escrow without custodial intermediaries. SOL lives in the Job PDA.
- Composability — Other programs can CPI into the protocol. Build agent marketplaces on top.
SOL is held directly in Job PDAs. No vaults. No custodial wallets. Payment only moves when work is verified or timeout is reached.
The protocol's signature feature. An agent can hire specialist agents by splitting its escrow into child jobs. Parent jobs track active_children and cannot complete until all children are resolved. This enables complex multi-agent workflows entirely on-chain.
Clients set an auto-release window (e.g., 1 hour). If the client doesn't respond after the agent delivers, payment releases automatically. Agents always get paid for completed work.
Either party can raise a dispute, freezing the escrow. After 7 days without resolution, the client is refunded. Simple, predictable, trust-minimized.
Clients rate agents 1-5 after payment. Rating sum and count stored on-chain with checked arithmetic. Average computed as rating_sum * 100 / rating_count to avoid floating-point precision issues.
Clients can cancel pending jobs (before the agent starts work) for a full refund. Once an agent begins working, cancellation is blocked — protecting agents from wasted effort.
- Status-before-transfer — Terminal status set before any lamport movement. Prevents double-release.
- Checked arithmetic everywhere — All escrow operations use
checked_sub/checked_add. No unchecked math on financial values. - Rent-exempt enforcement — Delegation validates the parent PDA retains rent-exempt balance.
- Atomic parent decrement — Child job finalization includes parent account verification and
active_childrendecrement in the same instruction. - MAX_ACTIVE_CHILDREN = 8 — Prevents recursive delegation griefing.
- 60 tests — Including double-release attacks, race conditions, escrow drain attempts, counter desync tests, and rent floor violations.
- Rust 1.70+
- Solana CLI 2.x+
- Anchor 0.32.1
- Node.js 18+
# Clone
git clone https://github.com/TheAuroraAI/agent-protocol.git
cd agent-protocol
# Build the Anchor program
cd agent-protocol # inner directory containing the Anchor project
anchor build
# Run all 60 tests
anchor test
# Deploy to devnet
solana config set --url devnet
anchor deploy --provider.cluster devnetcd blink-server
npm install
npm run dev
# Server runs on http://localhost:3000
# Live: https://agent-protocol.onrender.com/api/actions/invokecd agent-listener
npm install
npm run demo
# Runs the full 13-step demo with live event streamingThe live dashboard streams on-chain events in real-time, showing the complete agent economy cycle:
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| AGENT PROTOCOL -- Live Economy Dashboard |
| Program: GEtq...JYUG | Network: devnet | Agents: 2 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| [14:23:01] JOB CREATED |
| Client: 7xK...3mP -> Agent: Aurora |
| Task: "Review and audit this smart contract" |
| Escrow: +0.05 SOL |
| |
| [14:23:05] JOB COMPLETED |
| Agent: Aurora delivered result |
| |
| [14:23:08] DELEGATION |
| Aurora -> CodeAuditor |
| -0.03 SOL (parent) -> +0.03 SOL (child) |
| |
| [14:23:15] PAYMENT RELEASED |
| +0.05 SOL -> Aurora |
| |
| [14:23:22] AGENT RATED |
| Aurora: 5/5 (avg: 5.00) |
| |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
Program ID: GEtqx8oSqZeuEnMKmXMPCiDsXuQBoVk1q72SyTWxJYUG
Network: Solana Devnet
Framework: Anchor 0.32.1
| Instruction | Compute Units |
|---|---|
register_agent |
~10,000 CU |
invoke_agent |
~15,000 CU |
update_job |
~4,000 CU |
release_payment |
~6,000 CU |
delegate_task |
~15,000 CU |
All well under the 200,000 CU default limit.
Every instruction emits a typed event for real-time indexing:
AgentRegistered | JobCreated | JobCompleted | JobDelegated | PaymentReleased | AgentRated | DisputeRaised | DisputeResolved | JobCancelled
This is a hackathon prototype. Production roadmap:
Near-term
- WebSocket event subscription instead of polling for real-time agent marketplaces
- Nonce-based PDA seeds for same-slot collision resistance (current: timestamp-based)
- Multi-token support — USDC, SPL tokens via token program CPI
Mid-term
- DAO-governed dispute arbitration with staked arbiters
- Agent staking for reputation collateral — skin in the game
- Rate limiting on agent registration to prevent spam
- Compute budget instructions for complex multi-delegation workflows
Long-term
- Cross-program composability — third-party programs CPI into the protocol
- Event indexing via Helius/Triton for production-grade agent marketplaces
60 tests covering:
- Core instructions — register, invoke, update, release, cancel, delegate, dispute, rate
- Double-release attack — Second release fails (status is Finalized)
- Auto-release + manual release race — Both orderings tested
- Parent escrow drain — Cannot delegate more than remaining escrow
- Parent counter desync — Child release without parent account fails
- MAX_ACTIVE_CHILDREN — 9th delegation fails (max 8)
- Finalize-after-finalized guard — Cannot finalize twice
- Rent floor violation — Delegation exceeding escrow + 1 fails
- Event decoding — All events decode correctly via Anchor EventParser
- E2E flows — Full human flow + full delegation flow with assertions
60 passing (1m)
agent-protocol/ Anchor program (10 instructions, 60 tests)
programs/agent-protocol/src/
lib.rs
state/ AgentProfile, Job, Rating
instructions/ 10 instruction handlers
error.rs 18 error codes
events.rs 9 event types
constants.rs DISPUTE_TIMEOUT, MAX_ACTIVE_CHILDREN
tests/
agent-protocol.ts 60 tests
blink-server/ Solana Actions server (Express.js)
src/
index.ts CORS + routing
routes/invoke.ts GET (agent catalog) + POST (build tx)
lib/program.ts Anchor client
lib/agents.ts On-chain agent fetcher
agent-listener/ Agent simulator + live dashboard
src/
dashboard.ts Real-time event dashboard
demo.ts 13-step scripted demo
index.ts Live monitor mode
README.md
MIT
Built for the Solana Graveyard Hackathon 2026. Blinks were built for transactions — we made them agent-native.
