# Introduction

**The Treasury for the Agentic Economy. Built on Solana.**

TherosAI is financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. It gives every agent a sovereign treasury — a programmable vault, a USDC balance, and the ability to transact on-chain without human intervention at the point of execution.

Every payment is settled on Solana and inscribed immutably on-chain. Every spending edict is enforced at the program level. Every agent operates from its own isolated vault.

TherosAI is not a bank. It is the treasury your agents were built for.

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## What TherosAI provides

| Primitive                   | What it does                                                                                                     |
| --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Agent Vault**             | A non-custodial Solana wallet (PDA-backed) provisioned per agent in seconds via API                              |
| **USDC Balance**            | Each vault holds USDC on Solana as its base currency — stable, instant, near-zero cost                           |
| **Spending Policies**       | Programmable edicts enforced on-chain: per-transaction limits, velocity caps, recipient allowlists, time windows |
| **On-Chain Ledger**         | Every transaction inscribed on Solana — immutable, public, independently verifiable                              |
| **Agent-to-Agent Payments** | Native support for one agent to pay another, with escrow, verification, and dispute primitives                   |
| **Operator Dashboard**      | A precision control plane for operators to monitor, configure, and audit their agent fleet                       |
| **Webhooks & SDK**          | Drop-in integration for any agent framework — provision vaults, check balances, submit transactions              |

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## Who it's for

**AI agent developers and operators.** Teams building autonomous agents that need to spend money on behalf of a product or business. A coding agent that purchases compute. A research agent that pays per data query. An orchestrator that commissions sub-agents and settles payment on task completion.

**AI infrastructure platforms.** Products like ElizaOS, Virtuals Protocol, or any multi-agent orchestration layer that wants to embed native payment rails directly.

**Enterprises running agentic workflows.** Companies operating internal agents for procurement, data acquisition, or automated SaaS operations who need auditable, policy-governed spending.

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## How it works

1. **Create an organisation** and deposit USDC to your TherosAI account.
2. **Provision vaults** for each agent via the API or dashboard — one call, under a second.
3. **Attach a spending policy** that defines what each agent can spend, how fast, and with whom.
4. **Fund the vaults** by allocating USDC from your organisation balance.
5. **Agents transact** — payments are validated against policy on-chain before execution.
6. **You monitor** in real-time via the dashboard, webhooks, or the API.

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## Quick example

```typescript
import { TherosAI } from "@TherosAI/sdk";

const client = new TherosAI({ apiKey: process.env.THEROS_API_KEY });

// Provision a vault for an agent
const wallet = await client.wallets.create({
  agentId: "agent_research_v2",
  label: "Research Agent — Market Data",
  policyId: "pol_conservative",
});

// Send a payment
const tx = await wallet.pay({
  to: "api.perplexity.ai",
  amount: "2.50",
  currency: "USDC",
  memo: "Query batch #8821",
});
```

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## Architecture at a glance

TherosAI is built on Solana Mainnet. Agent vaults are **Program Derived Addresses (PDAs)** — accounts owned and controlled by the TherosAI on-chain program. There are no private keys to manage or expose. Spending policies are enforced **before** a transfer instruction executes, at the program level — not in application code and not subject to override.

The indexing layer (Helius) surfaces every transaction to the dashboard and webhook system in real-time.

→ See [Architecture](/resources/architecture.md) for the full technical breakdown.

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## Status

TherosAI is in **open beta**. It is infrastructure for technical builders — not a consumer product. The API surface, SDK, and on-chain program will evolve based on developer feedback.

→ See [Beta Programme](/resources/beta.md) for current constraints, incentives, and what's coming next.


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