Radius
Radius Technical Briefing
Published May 5, 2026
Overview
Radius's Tyler Frederick walks through Radius — stablecoin infrastructure aimed at millions of transactions per second to power agentic microtransactions like sub-penny purchases of data, inference, or compute — at Day Zero 06. The demo uses a fictional security/risk-assessment API called EdgeMeter, which currently blocks the ~50% of web traffic that is bots with 403s. Flip on x402 with per-request sub-penny pricing and the same bot traffic becomes monetized agent demand: live MetaMask-driven traffic settles in real time on Radius mainnet with revenue accruing per call. The deploy story is just as fast — a Claude session uses the open-source Radius x402 skill to ship a Cloudflare Worker endpoint, and a parallel buyer agent provisions a wallet, hits the Radius mainnet faucet for a 1-cent SBC drip (which funds 100 transactions at Radius's 1/100¢ per tx), then completes a paid call end-to-end in under five minutes.
0:00 Radius — millions of TPS for stablecoin infra
Tyler Frederick introduces Radius: massively scalable stablecoin infrastructure aiming at processing transactions in the millions of TPS, in service of agentic commerce use cases that legacy L1s and L2s can't fit.
0:30 Why agentic commerce needs that much bandwidth
Other interpretations of agentic commerce ("Claude, find me running shoes under $100") are well-served by existing rails. Radius targets the harder regime: paying for a bit of data, inference, or compute — sub-penny microtransactions agents will run by the millions.
1:30 EdgeMeter — fake company, real demo
A hypothetical company called EdgeMeter sells security and risk-assessment endpoints (threat intel, bot scoring) and gates access via subscriptions. Its bot-traffic problem mirrors most real APIs.
2:00 ~50% of web traffic is bots
Cloudflare's number: roughly half of web traffic is now bots, and that share will keep climbing as developers lean on Claude Code and similar tools. EdgeMeter's 403-block-bots policy is leaving real revenue on the table.
2:30 Flip on x402 — per-request sub-penny pricing
EdgeMeter turns on x402 with per-request pricing under one cent. Every endpoint now has a per-call price tag, and the dashboard sits idle waiting for settlement events.
3:00 Mainnet swarm — real settlements on Radius
A traffic generator fires real transactions through MetaMask. The dashboard shows revenue accruing per request in real time on the Radius mainnet — bots monetized instead of blocked.
4:30 Buyer side — agent, wallet, funds
Walking back to the start: making this agent-native means agents need wallets, funds, and an x402-aware client. Radius publishes open-source x402 skills so any harness (Claude, Codex, Hermes) can plug in.
5:30 Live deploy — Claude builds the seller side
Tyler pastes a prompt into Claude that uses the Radius x402 skill to deploy a dummy x402-gated endpoint to a Cloudflare worker. (Brief Claude login wobble, recovered live.)
6:30 Buyer agent — wallet + Radius mainnet faucet
In a parallel Claude window, a buyer agent creates a wallet and hits the Radius mainnet faucet for a 1-cent SBC drip. At Radius's 1/100¢ per transaction, that funds 100 calls.
7:30 Endpoint deployed and verified live
Cloudflare worker comes up; the dummy x402 endpoint is live and verified. Buyer wallet is funded. Time elapsed so far: a few minutes.
9:00 Buyer pays + receives premium content
Buyer agent calls /api/dummy via the Radius x402 skill: 402 challenge, payment, receipt of the secret payload ("the cake is a lie"). End-to-end agent purchase on Radius mainnet, deploy + buy in under five minutes.
10:30 Why the TPS target is real
One transaction is the small case. Microtransactions hitting any meaningful adoption climb past hundreds of thousands per second into the millions. Sub-penny services need an underlying chain that can carry that load — that's the Radius bet.
Presented by Tyler Frederick — Radius · website
Topics: Stablecoins
