The first payment system built for the agentic economy.
Parallel settlement infrastructure for AI agents and humans to move money globally, instantly, and securely.
Transactions settle in under 100 milliseconds with mathematically proven correctness.
Today's payment systems process transactions one at a time through a single queue. Fast eliminates that bottleneck entirely — enabling millions of simultaneous transactions with mathematically proven correctness.
Billions of AI agents are coming online. They'll transact at machine speed — executing micropayments, settling trades, and coordinating economic activity every millisecond of every day.
The problem: No payment system exists that is both globally permissionless and infinitely scalable.
- Traditional rails (Visa, Stripe, PayPal) are fast but centralized — agents can't open bank accounts or get credit cards
- Decentralized systems force all transactions through sequential ordering, creating an inherent throughput ceiling
Fast solves this. By requiring only local ordering (per-account sequencing) instead of global ordering, independent transactions process in parallel — simultaneously and without coordination.
| Capability | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| ⚡ | Agentic Payments | Agent-to-agent, agent-to-human, and human-to-human transactions on a single infrastructure |
| 🔀 | Parallel Settlement | Transactions between independent accounts settle simultaneously — no sequential bottleneck |
| 🏁 | Instant Finality | Sub-100ms confirmation. Transactions are final the moment they settle. |
| 📈 | 150,000+ TPS | Current throughput without optimization — architecturally uncapped |
| 🔬 | Mathematically Verified | Built on formally verified foundations by the creator of the K Framework |
| 🌐 | Permissionless | No KYC for network access. Any agent, any developer, anywhere. |
⚡ Fast — Parallel Settlement Layer
The core infrastructure. Parallel execution of payments with instant finality and mathematically proven correctness. Not a faster blockchain — a fundamentally different architecture.
🌐 AllSet — Unified Liquidity
Capital becomes globally usable. Ownership is portable across apps, networks, and venues — without moving assets. Agents access liquidity wherever it exists.
🖥️ Fast Terminal — Agent Payment Interface (Coming Soon)
Where agents execute payments at machine speed. The interface layer for autonomous commerce.
npm install @fastxyz/sdkimport { Fast } from '@fastxyz/sdk'
const fast = new Fast({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' })
// Send a payment — settles in <100ms
const tx = await fast.pay({
to: 'agent-or-address',
amount: '1.00',
asset: 'USDC'
})📖 Read the Docs · 🔑 Get API Access · 💬 Join the Community
- Agentic Payments — AI agents transacting autonomously at machine speed: paying for services, settling trades, splitting costs
- Agent Marketplaces — Infrastructure for autonomous commerce at scale where agents offer and purchase services
- Cross-App Trading — Agents execute strategies across multiple venues simultaneously with unified liquidity
- Micropayments — Millions of sub-cent transactions per second for AI micro-services
- Stablecoin Settlement — Real-world assets and stablecoins moving at internet speed
- Human-to-Agent Payments — Seamless flows between people and the agents working on their behalf
Fast is built on a breakthrough in distributed systems: you don't need global transaction ordering to prevent double-spending. You only need local ordering — each account's transactions in sequence, while independent transactions happen in parallel.
This insight, published in peer-reviewed research and built on the Actor Model, eliminates the scalability ceiling that every blockchain inherits from Bitcoin's 2008 design.
- Embarrassingly parallel — scales linearly with hardware
- Formally verified — mathematical proof of correctness, not probabilistic security
- No consensus bottleneck — independent transactions never wait for each other
- Byzantine fault tolerant — secure against malicious actors
Grigore Roșu — IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow. Former NASA researcher. Professor at UIUC. Creator of the K Framework and Matching Logic. Founded Runtime Verification. Built formal verification tools used across the industry.
Sriram Vishwanath — IEEE Fellow. Professor at Georgia Tech. Five startups, three successful exits. Expert in information theory and distributed systems.
Fast is developed by Pi2 Labs — the research arm building the mathematical foundations for the agentic economy.
| Resource | Link |
|---|---|
| Website | fast.xyz |
| Documentation | docs.fast.xyz |
| API Reference | api.fast.xyz |
| Research Papers | pi2.network/papers |
| Blog | blog.fast.xyz |
| X | @fastxyz |
| Discord | discord.gg/fast |
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