Artificial intelligence is entering a phase defined not simply by increasingly capable models, but by the proliferation of autonomous agents capable of operating persistently, making decisions, delegating tasks, interacting with APIs, performing financial operations, and communicating with other agents. These agents are becoming more specialized, more autonomous, and more deeply embedded into workflows across industries such as finance, logistics, research, legal services, customer operations, and industrial automation. Despite this advance, the ecosystem in which these agents operate is deeply fragmented. Each organization implements its own communication patterns, identity models, authentication strategies, and tracking systems. Agents produced by different companies cannot communicate securely or reliably. There is no universally trusted substrate through which thousands or millions of independently operated agents can discover one another, authenticate their actions, and transact economically.

Parallel to this fragmentation is the rising need for verifiability and accountability in AI-driven systems. As agents act increasingly on real-world systems (executing trades, operating robotic devices, managing data pipelines, controlling infrastructure), the consequences of their actions become material. Users, enterprises, and regulators demand visibility into which agent performed which action, under whose authority, using what data, and within what constraints. Without such guarantees, sophisticated multi-agent systems cannot be reliably adopted in safety-critical or compliance-controlled domains.

Botsuma is designed in direct response to these emerging needs. The Botsuma Protocol defines a universal, secure, and verifiable standard for agent communication and coordination. It specifies how agents authenticate themselves, how they exchange messages, how authority is delegated and attenuated, how constraints are enforced, and how complex multi-agent workflows are structured. Complementing the protocol is the Botsuma Network, a high-throughput Layer 2 blockchain built on Ethereum. The network records agent identities, action logs, capability delegations, payments, staking events, governance decisions, and ownership transfers. Together, they form a global coordination and economic platform for the agentic AI ecosystem.

Botsuma is designed to act as a foundational infrastructure layer, analogous to how TCP/IP and HTTP underpinned the web era. It provides the substrate on which an entire industry of interoperable, accountable, autonomous agents can emerge. Developers gain a standardized environment to build, deploy, monetize, and sell agents. Enterprises obtain an environment to operate internal and external agents with strict governance and auditability. End users obtain secure, verifiable agent behaviors. And the broader ecosystem obtains a scalable, economically aligned infrastructure for multi-agent collaboration.