Here's the mental model:
β x402 As The Edge:
x402 revives HTTP 402 and allows agents or APIs to pay per call in stablecoins, without pre-provisioned keys or human onboarding. It is literally meant for machine native, real-time billing. But that only works well if the service can show, in a verifiable way, that the computation it is charging for is the computation it actually ran.
β EigenCloud As The Verifiable Execution Surface:
EigenCloud is a restaking-verifiable cloud. There, you run off-chain compute, and the result can be verified or economically enforced by AVSs secured through @eigenlayer. Now, if the inference or job ran on EigenCloud, you can require a verifiable output or a slashable commitment before x402 releases funds.
β Brevis As The ZK Coprocessor:
@brevis_zk already does the off-chain compute, on-chain proof pattern, and has a propose challenge style design. That makes it a good example for turning an arbitrary activity or a historical state into a validity proof that can be consumed by a payment flow.
In practice, EigenCloud will run the task, Brevis will produce or attest a proof of what was run or what data was used, then the result is fed into the x402 payment edge as a condition for settlement.
β Cysic for proof Throughput:
For this model to work for several agent calls, what is needed is fast proving. @cysic_xyz is a hardware-accelerated, networked ZK proving. Therefore, while Brevis can stay the logic and attestation sample, Cysic is the reference for how to make proof generation fast enough not to block a payment level protocol.
The Flow:
1. Agent calls an x402 protected API.
2. API delegates the work to EigenCloud, where it runs inside a verifiable service.
3. The service emits a result plus a commitment that can be proven or challenged.
4. The Brevis coprocessor turns that commitment into a ZK proof that this exact work was done with this exact input.
5. Proof generation is accelerated through Cysic, ensuring that the round-trip is real-time.
6. x402 checks the proof and the EigenCloud verification signal before finalizing or streaming the payment.
That is all. Thanks for reading!
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