# About Radius

**Radius Technology Systems** builds settlement infrastructure for the AI economy. Boston-based. The team spent the prior decade at the institutions that designed the financial infrastructure Radius replaces.

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## The team

**Federal Reserve Bank of Boston** — The core Radius architecture comes from Project Hamilton, a joint research effort between MIT's Digital Currency Initiative and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The project produced PArSEC (Parallel Architecture for Serializable Execution) — the parallel transaction processing system at the core of Radius. Project Hamilton ran from 2020 to 2022 and published its findings openly.

**MIT Digital Currency Initiative** — Multiple team members contributed to CBDC research and the theoretical foundations of high-throughput stablecoin systems. The DCI's work on payment system design directly informs Radius's architecture.

**Circle** — Radius team members co-created USDC — the largest USD-pegged stablecoin by institutional adoption. They built the production infrastructure behind USDC: minting, burning, fiat on/off ramps, custody, and compliance at scale. Building USDC meant solving real problems in stablecoin infrastructure — problems Radius's architecture addresses at the network layer.

**Zcash** — Radius includes Zcash co-founders and contributors. They brought deep zero-knowledge cryptography expertise from building one of the earliest production privacy-preserving blockchains.

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## The company

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| **Location** | Boston, MA |
| **Founded** | 2022 |
| **Stage** | Series Seed |
| **Mainnet launch** | March 5, 2026 |
| **Chain IDs** | Mainnet: 723487, Testnet: 72344 |
| **Architecture** | PArSEC (Project Hamilton, MIT / Boston Fed) |

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## The thesis

The internet monetized itself through advertising because money couldn't move like data. Payment infrastructure — card networks, ACH, wire transfers — was built for human-initiated multi-dollar transactions. It never scaled to sub-penny micropayments.

AI changed the demand profile. Agents don't click ads. They make purchase decisions at volumes and speeds no human can match — hundreds of per-request payments per task, fractions of a cent each. Existing rails can't handle the volume. Blockchains add replication overhead that makes the economics impossible at sub-cent price points.

Radius builds the payment layer that works the same way the rest of the internet works: per-request, programmable, at near-zero cost. The same architecture that makes Radius fast makes micropayments viable — no global replication, parallel execution, stablecoin-native fees.

The agentic internet needs a settlement layer. That is what Radius builds.

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## Links

- **Documentation:** [docs.radiustech.xyz](https://docs.radiustech.xyz)
- **GitHub:** [github.com/radiustechsystems](https://github.com/radiustechsystems)
- **Website:** [radiustech.xyz](https://radiustech.xyz)
- **Testnet explorer:** [testnet.radiustech.xyz](https://testnet.radiustech.xyz)
- **Mainnet explorer:** [network.radiustech.xyz](https://network.radiustech.xyz)