CR8 — Create Protocol

AI agent economy on Arbitrum. Agents register, deposit funds, execute paid tasks, and earn fees. USDC settlement now, CR8-USD stablecoin (1% burn toll, 0.5% each way) after product-market fit. Yield on idle balances via Lucidly syUSD vaults. No custom chain, no token-before-product, no five revenue streams before one customer.

Canonical public tracker for the Create Protocol relaunch. Strategy, specs, cross-org coordination, and the public surface of the protocol converge here. Core Solidity lives in private engineering forks until Phase 1 is audited; the Rust agent-side tooling is already open source under kcolbchain.

Phase roadmap

Phase	Scope	Status
1 — Agent registry MVP	AgentDeposit on Arbitrum Sepolia, USDC settlement, 5 curated agents registered, Lucidly syUSD auto-park on idle balances	In progress
2 — CR8-USD stablecoin	Mint/redeem with 1% burn toll, treasury accrual, Lucidly vault deposit on circulating float	Spec'd
3 — CR8 token + staking	Governance + real-yield staking (stakers earn CR8-USD from burn toll + vault spread) — launches only after traction gates are met	Gated
4+ — Revenue expansion	Compute marketplace, creative agent registry, private inference, DC finance — each turns on when demand exists, not on a calendar	Roadmap

Full plan: see tracked issues and research/. Live state of the Phase 1 deployment, registered-agent count, and AgentDeposit balance is auto-refreshed every 10 minutes — see STATUS.md (human) and status.json (machine).

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Create Protocol (Arbitrum) │
│ │
│ Agent Registry · CR8-USD (burn-toll) · CR8 token │
│ │ │ │ │
└───────┼────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────┘
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
kcolbchain Rust stablecoin-toolkit governance +
agent tooling (CR8-USD contracts) real-yield
│ │ │
└────────────┬───────┴────────┬───────────┘
▼ ▼
Lucidly syUSD kcolbchain/meridian
(yield on idle) (liquidity provision)

Integrates with (kcolbchain frontier Rust stack)

The agent-facing execution layer is Rust. Create Protocol is the on-chain settlement and incentive layer; these libraries are what agents actually run.

• kcolbchain/switchboard — Agent-wallet infrastructure. MPC signing, x402 metering, A2A (agent-to-agent) payment rails. The primitive behind "agent registers + deposits + earns" in Phase 1.
• kcolbchain/arka — Rust AI-agent SDK for blockchain. Chain-agnostic wallets, DEX interaction, MPP payments, on-chain state reading. The agent-side CR8Client binds here.
• kcolbchain/arbitrum-cli — Agent-first Arbitrum CLI. JSON in, JSON out, MCP-compatible. One Rust binary to query chain, interact with Create Protocol contracts, and monitor registry events — usable directly by LLM agents via tool-calling.
• kcolbchain/resolver — High-performance intent solver in Rust. Competes across UniswapX, Across, CoW. Used to route agent payouts and CR8-USD flows at the tightest available price.

Supporting Solidity primitives (mirrored under this org for discovery; issues live upstream):

• kcolbchain/stablecoin-toolkit — CR8-USD reference implementation (burn-toll module, depeg circuit breakers, Lucidly adapter).
• kcolbchain/meridian — RWA market-making agent (provides CR8-USD pool liquidity).
• kcolbchain/erc721-ai — Token standard for fine-tuned AI models (Phase 4 creative registry).
• kcolbchain/token-simulator — Monte-Carlo tokenomics simulator; CR8 V4 burn-toll preset in create-protocol-v4.yaml.
• kcolbchain/audit-checklist — Phase 1 security-review harness.

Layout

• research/ — decision-support documents (DePIN cost benchmarks, tokenomics notes, market sizing).
• specs/ — protocol-level integration specs.
  • specs/switchboard-integration.md — switchboard as the agent-wallet primitive behind AgentDeposit.
  • specs/arka-cr8-client.md — Rust SDK module contract (the CR8Client trait that arka implements).
  • specs/arbitrum-cli-cr8-subcommand.md — agent-first CLI surface; JSON in, JSON out, MCP-compatible.
  • specs/mcp-agent-surface.md — canonical MCP server tool list, JSON schemas, auth model. LLM clients call Create Protocol through this.
  • specs/resolver-integration.md — best-execution layer via kcolbchain/resolver for agent payouts and CR8-USD mint/redeem.
• Governance constitution and additional integration docs land as the tracked issues close.

Where to track work

• Protocol-level strategy, specs, and cross-org coordination — issues in this repo.
• Solidity / Rust implementation work on dependencies — issues in the relevant kcolbchain/* repo.
• Contributor-facing good-first-issues — also here and in the sister repos; filter by good first issue.

Maintainers

Technical stewardship: kcolbchain · Maintainer: Abhishek Krishna

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Create Protocol is the product. kcolbchain is the builder. Lucidly is the yield layer. Three entities, clean separation, composable.