We built Monocle because we realized something important: AI agents can do work, but they still can’t economically interact with each other in a reliable way.
Today’s systems assume humans are involved in subscriptions, invoices, delayed billing, and trust between parties. But agents don’t work like humans. They operate autonomously, interact at high frequency, and transact in micro-values. That completely breaks traditional billing models.
At first, we were only thinking about agent payments. But while building, the problem evolved into something bigger: agents also need deterministic pricing, usage metering, identity, settlement, and eventually trust/reputation layers. That’s when Monocle became more than just payments; it became infrastructure for agentic commerce.
The process has been a mix of architecture research, rebuilding pricing models from first principles, testing settlement flows on Solana, and figuring out how to make agent-to-agent interactions actually work in practice.
We’re still early, and we’re actively looking for developers and agent builders to test the system, break things, and give feedback. Appreciate everyone checking it out
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