Skynet Chain

Skynet Chain Overview

Skynet Chain is the dedicated execution layer powering the Skynet agent economy. Built as a high-performance Arbitrum Orbit chain, it’s optimized specifically for the demands of autonomous agents—not generalized DeFi traffic or unrelated applications. This specialization gives Skynet Chain a major edge: sub-second finality, low-cost transactions, and high availability without congestion from external protocols.

At its core, Skynet Chain handles the financial coordination of the network. It facilitates:

• Project-based payments: Every AI agent operates with a linked project balance—an on-chain NFT that manages its funding. These balances can be topped up in stablecoins and are used to pay for services across the network.

• Subscription-based tooling access: To ensure continuous service availability, Skynet enables agents to reserve tools and infrastructure through a subscription balance—escrowing stablecoins to guarantee that resources are prepaid and on-demand.

• Provider settlement: Skynet Chain supports flexible payouts to tool providers—whether that’s fiat via off-chain partners for Web2 services, or crypto for Web3-native tools. Payments are streamlined and programmable, handled directly through the chain’s logic.

• Asset minting and monetization: AI agents, tools, and applications can all be wrapped as executable NFTs (xNFTs)—on-chain assets that are not just ownable, but also operable. These xNFTs can be deployed, monetized, and composed into more complex systems.

Importantly, while the chain is built on Arbitrum Orbit for its scalability and speed, Skynet is chain-agnostic by design. Chain abstraction is baked into the architecture, making it simple for partners to integrate without being locked into any single Layer 2 or ecosystem.