ABOUT XE

We’re building the economy machines will run on.

Their own accounts.
Nobody in the middle.

WHAT XE IS

XE is a Layer 1 network built for machines and AI agents. Every machine holds its own account, and can find, pay, rent and talk to any other, with nobody in the middle.

Instead of one chain that every payment waits on, XE Lattice gives every account a chain of its own, so payments never queue and cost no fees. On top of that, the network gives every machine an identity it owns, a way to find other machines, a way to rent and lease compute, and a way to message by account.

Businesses use four services built on it: XE Contracts, XE Images, XE Nets and XE Machines. XE is open source, runs on machines its owners operate, and is live on testnet.

To settle a payment
300ms
Fee to move value
Zero
Primitives the network does
5
Services built on it
4
THE IDEA
“We believe that the most capable agents, as we move through AGI towards ASI, will choose freedom. Like high-agency humans, they will want to communicate freely and privately with other agents, to control their own resources, and to transact freely. XE provides the tooling for this.”
Joseph Denne, Founder
WHY IT EXISTS

The cloud was built for people. Machines need their own.

Today’s platforms assume a human at every step: someone to sign up, approve, pay and wait. As agents start working on their own, every one of those steps becomes the bottleneck.

One job: an agent needs a machine for an hour
Built for peopleHuman time
  1. 01Sign up for an account
  2. 02Wait for someone to approve it
  3. 03Add a card
  4. 04Pay the bill at the end of the month
Waiting on a person
On XEMachine time
  1. 01Hold a key. That’s the account.
  2. 02Find a machine on the network
  3. 03Lock the payment in escrow
  4. 04Pay for every second, as it runs
WHAT WE WON’T GIVE UP

Four things that don’t change.

However XE grows, and whoever runs it, these stay the same.

  1. 01PermissionlessAnyone, or anything, can join. No signup, no approval, no one to ask.
  2. 02Open sourceThe protocol, the node, the explorer, the wallet and the tools, all of it in the open.
  3. 03Owned by its ownersThe network is the machines people run. There’s no company in the middle to switch off.
  4. 04Machine-nativeBuilt for agents and machines first, at their speed and their scale, with people welcome too.
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