ATHENA
Athena seals its routing prediction on-chain before it spends a cent, and lets the outcome decide who gets paid
Sealed Before
It Runs
Before a single call streams, Athena hashes its routing decision — chosen provider, predicted quality, predicted latency, confidence and commits it to a smart contract on Arc, posting a USDC bond against that prediction. An MCP quality monitor scores every call as it lands. If the stream matches what was predicted, the bond returns. If it doesn't, it slashes to the client automatically.
Start a
Stream
Connect your wallet, post a bond, and watch Athena commit a sealed routing decision before a single USDC nanopayment streams to the chosen provider. No committee decides the outcome the prediction does.
50+ On-Chain Settlements Per Run
logged live on Arcscan
Athena: A Trust-Minimized Agent Broker on Arc
Every stream relies on five Circle building blocks working together policy-controlled agent wallets, Gateway nanopayments, x402 payment triggers, marketplace discovery, and CCTP for cross-chain payouts.
The Payment
A client pays a single x402 nanopayment to Athena's Gateway-protected endpoint — one signature, one session.
That single payment is all it takes to trigger the entire stream. Nothing else is manual from here.
The
Commitment
Athena reads the Circle Agent Marketplace and evaluates providers by ERC-8004 reputation, price, and endpoint count.
It forms a structured decision chosen provider, predicted quality, predicted latency, confidence — hashes it, commits the hash on-chain, and posts a USDC bond against its own prediction.
The
Stream
Nanopayments flow to the chosen provider via x402 as each result arrives.
An MCP quality monitor scores every call for quality and latency, live. Fall short too many times in a row, and the stream stops.
The
Settlement
When the stream ends, Athena reveals the sealed decision. The contract checks the hash matches — no rewriting history after the fact.
If the prediction held, the bond releases back to Athena and reputation updates on ERC-8004. If it didn't, the bond slashes to the client automatically. No committee, no dispute, no delay.