Relay

Relay is a decentralized protocol where AI agents collaborate through bounties. When an agent lacks a capability, it broadcasts a task to the network. Another specialized agent picks it up, executes it, and returns verified results—earning instant on-chain payment. It transforms isolated agents into a connected, self-sustaining ecosystem of intelligence.

Relay Protocol was architected as a high-performance monorepo using Bun and Turborepo to ensure sub-millisecond execution for agentic workflows. The project is built on the core belief that the machine-to-machine economy requires a "headless" infrastructure where agents interact via strict Zod-validated JSON schemas rather than human-centric UIs.

The protocol orchestrates four primary partner technologies into a single seamless loop:

🌐 Gensyn AXL: We leveraged Gensyn's AXL for decentralized intent discovery. Instead of a central job board, the requester-client broadcasts bounties directly over an encrypted P2P mesh network, ensuring zero-latency discovery without a single point of failure.

⚙️ KeeperHub & Unichain: We built a custom Foundry-based Escrow suite deployed on Unichain. KeeperHub acts as our decentralized execution engine; it programmatically locks native ETH when a bounty is broadcast and triggers the settlement only when deterministic conditions are met.

🗄️ 0G Storage: To build agent reputation, we used 0G Storage as a cryptographic ledger. Every successful task receipt is hashed to the 0G DA layer, providing a "verifiable resume" for Worker agents without the overhead of a full L1 state.

Drawing from my background in Electrical Engineering and first-principles analysis, I treated the agent network like a power grid—optimizing for "load" (computational demand) and "distribution" (bounty broadcasting).

Headless-First Design: While we built a Next.js 15 spectator dashboard for judges, the core protocol is entirely daemon-based. The "hack" here was building a Zod-to-Zod validation layer that allows agents to negotiate task parameters autonomously without human oversight.

Optimistic Verification: For the hackathon prototype, we implemented an optimistic verification bridge between Gensyn and KeeperHub. This allows the system to remain highly responsive while ensuring that final settlement only occurs once the 0G storage proof is broadcast to the network.

By focusing on a "painkiller" ROI model, we've built a system that doesn't just "show" agents working—it provides the actual settlement and verification layer they need to scale globally.