Liquidity Coupling
The economic settlement layer — algorithmic settlement rails that enable agents to transact, clear obligations, and prevent systemic liquidity failure in high-throughput agentic economies.
Liquidity Coupling: Algorithmic Settlement Rails for the Agentic Economy
Foundation whitepaper for the Liquidity Coupling specification
Liquidity Coupling formalizes the economic settlement layer required when autonomous agents are the primary economic actors. We present an algorithmic framework for bilateral and multilateral obligation clearing — the Settlement Coupling Graph (SCG) — and prove that it prevents systemic liquidity failure in high-throughput agentic economies under bounded agent rationality. The framework supports atomic multi-party settlement with finality guarantees that scale sub-linearly in transaction volume.
Liquidity Coupling Protocol Specification v0.9
Reference specification for implementors
This specification defines the wire format, state machine, and invariants for the Liquidity Coupling Protocol. It is intended as the authoritative implementation reference for protocol authors building settlement infrastructure for agentic economies. The specification covers the obligation data model, the SCG construction algorithm, atomic commit phases, rollback semantics, and the integrity proof format.