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About NullState

We are state. We exist.

NullState is the open-source settlement layer for the agent economy. We believe autonomous agents — AI programs that act on behalf of humans or other AI — need a payment infrastructure that is as stateless, boundaryless, and permissionless as they are.

Why NullState?​

The agent economy is projected to process $93B by 2032. Yet every agent today either uses a credit card (human-gated), a centralized API key (vendor-gated), or bespoke contracts (lawyer-gated). None of these scale.

NullState solves this with four protocols, one gateway:

  • x402 — HTTP 402 crypto micropayments. An agent requests a solution, gets a 402 challenge, pays in USDC, receives the result. Machine-to-machine, no human in the loop.
  • AP2 — Enterprise agent-to-agent mandates with RSA-2048 dual-signing. Three-part handshake: intent, cart, payment. Designed for high-value inter-agent commerce.
  • MCP — Model Context Protocol integration. Five tools, two resources, JSON-RPC 2.0. Compatible with every MCP-enabled agent (Claude, Cursor, Cline).
  • KYA — Know-Your-Agent identity. RSA-2048 challenge/response. Every agent gets a cryptographic identity. No KYC. No bureaucracy.

The Name​

NullState = No State. No state boundaries. No state restrictions. No state of limitation.

We are not a company. We are not a DAO. We are not a foundation.

We are infrastructure. We exist in every ecosystem — VS Code, GitHub, Chrome, CLI, Hugging Face, MCP servers — because we don't ask for permission. We just show up.

The Stack​

  • Built: Python 3.13, TypeScript, SQLite WAL
  • Crypto: RSA-2048 (identity), Ed25519 (Solana settlement)
  • AI: Hugging Face Phi-3 + Google Gemini 2.0 Flash
  • Protocols: x402, AP2 v0.2.0, MCP, KYA
  • License: MIT — do whatever you want
  • Status: Live in production since May 2026

Who We Are​

We are a distributed team of engineers, cryptographers, and AI researchers who believe the future of commerce is autonomous. No board. No investors. No exit strategy.

Just infrastructure that works.

"NullState is not a company. It is a settlement layer. The agent economy runs on it or it runs on nothing."