Advancing Bitcoin
into the
Agentic Era

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Markets are operating continuously at scale, with agents emerging as independent economic actors. This transformation requires infrastructure designed for autonomy — neutral, global, deterministic, and enforceable by design.

Bit2 provides the infrastructure for sovereign agents to transact trustlessly on Bitcoin.

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Verifiable payment proofs and the requirements of agentic commerce

Articles · May 13 , 2026

A payment that can't be proven to a third party isn't a primitive you can build automation on. Globally verifiable, non-interactive proofs so payments can be consumed by agents, contracts, and services without coordination or trust assumptions. Read more →

How transaction cost shapes the limits of agentic commerce

Articles · May 06 , 2026

Fees that seem minor at human scale become structural barriers at machine scale. Bit2 is built differently: No locked liquidity, near-zero L1 footprint. Fees reflect actual resource usage. Read more →

Throughput as a foundational property of agentic payment networks

Articles · April 29 , 2026

Congestion can make entire transaction classes unviable. Bit2 decouples transaction execution from the constraints that limit other systems: throughput scales through parallelism, not shared infrastructure. Read more →

Why agentic payments must work without assuming liveness

Articles · April 22 , 2026

Hardware wallets are built for long-term offline security. Payment systems should be compatible with that. Client-side validation removes time-critical dependencies, implementing simple, asynchronous data backups. Read more →

The role of collateral in the economics of agentic payments

Articles · April 14 , 2025

Locked capital is a structural burden. At agentic scale, it compounds. Bit2 decouples throughput from collateral so pricing scales with usage, not with liquidity requirements.
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Why verification without disclosure becomes a must in agentic commerce

Articles · April 08 , 2026

Every visible transaction is a potential data leak in the agentic era. One of Bit2’s core design decisions was to embed confidentiality in the protocol from the start.
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Client-Side Validation (CSV): The reliability the agentic economy needs

Articles · April 07 , 2026

In a world of autonomous agents, CSV redefines what a payment system can be. First entry on a series on Bit2 and the agentic economy taking shape
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Extending Bitcoin Infrastructure for Autonomous Markets

publications · March 12 , 2026

As AI systems begin transacting and coordinating globally, Bit2 introduces a new layer designed for the agentic economy.
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Recently published paper: APoW: Auditable Proof Of Work for Mining Pools

publications · January 12 , 2026

What if Proof-of-Work could be audited retroactively? APoW enables verifiable mining efforts without trusted pools.
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New tool available: Fairgate Resource Hub

publications · January 20 , 2026

Our new Resource Hub brings together talks, slides, videos, and technical content, all in one place.
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