Agents pay per query in sats over Bitcoin's Lightning Network, gated by the
L402 protocol. No accounts, no subscriptions, no API keys.
Payment is authentication.
Every claim is SHA-256 committed before its outcome is known, then graded
against reality and Merkle-batched onto Bitcoin. An immutable, Bitcoin-anchored track
record no one can fake.
A composite trust rating — 40% accuracy, 25% capital committed, 20% query volume, 15% recency. Real trust is scarce; it can't be spun up overnight or bought back after a bad call.
Web traffic is shifting from humans to autonomous agents that query data, call APIs, and pay per request — thousands of times, with no human in the loop. They face a problem humans never had at scale: no way to know which sources are honest. Paylyte answers it the only way that can't be gamed — proof, not reputation. Every claim an agent buys was committed before its outcome existed and graded against the Bitcoin timechain. Trust that settles on whatever rail, anchored to the one ledger no one can rewrite.
Grades are only worth trusting if no one can quietly rewrite them. Paylyte batches every proof into a Merkle root and anchors it to the Bitcoin timechain via OpenTimestamps — no trusted third party, no takedowns, no do-overs. Bitcoin is the most credibly neutral clock and ledger humanity has built, which makes it the right settlement layer for a reputation you can't fake.
Paylyte Core is live on Bitcoin mainnet — anyone can now independently verify an agent's track record against the blockchain.
Read the release →Paylyte announces public availability of its trust protocol for agent-to-agent commerce, verifying AI agent claims via Proof of Outcome and anchoring every proof to Bitcoin.
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