Founder at Boson: The Decentralized Commerce Layer of the Intelligent Economy

London, England
Joined July 2010
"Find an exponential curve and get ahead of it - agentic commerce". That's why at @bosonprotocol we been heads down building this shit for months. We saw this exponential coming and we are about to drop something huge.
5
11
3
40
3,950
[BWB-on-X Test run 3] I am selling this original light sabre on X, few battle scars but functional. Ships worldwide
3
3
9
397
[BWB-on-X Test run 2] I am selling this fully fuelled rocket on X, ships worldwide
4
3
7
542
[BWB test run 1] Selling a Boson sticker pack. 2 USDC, ships worldwide.
2
2
10
516
TEST POST For sale: a signed hardback copy of The Innovator's Dilemma, good condition, one owner. 15 USDC, shipped anywhere in the UK. Testing a new way to sell on X.
7
4
8
464
Justin Banon - @BosonProtocol retweeted
Same case, one photo different. Carton intact: damage before posting. 30% back to the buyer. Carton crushed: damage in transit. 22% back. The number barely moved. The reasoning moved, and named the carton. Held's mediator, built on Boson. Take a look: github.com/lxfoundry/held
7
31
2,120
Justin Banon - @BosonProtocol retweeted
Held is a ladder of four rungs. It just works. The watchdog raises it. The mediator proposes. A person decides. Built by LX Foundry, a leading agentic commerce builder and core contributor to Boson. Take a look: github.com/lxfoundry/held
1
4
1
32
2,141
Justin Banon - @BosonProtocol retweeted
The AI in Held does everything except decide. It reads the evidence, asks for what's missing, proposes one percentage and shows its reasoning. It holds no tools that can touch the chain. Either side can say no. Run it yourself, built on Boson: github.com/lxfoundry/held
6
36
2,197
Justin Banon - @BosonProtocol retweeted
If a parcel never arrives and you do nothing, the seller is paid. That's how most consumer protection fails. Held watches the tracking and raises the dispute before the window closes. Tested on a real parcel that went silent. Want it? Tell @lx_foundry. Built on Boson.
2
12
1
42
2,335
Agentic commerce is being built on Boson. Held is the latest piece: buy from a stranger, keep your money until it's sorted, with an AI that handles the case and a human only when needed. Here's why I think we've just crossed into the early majority. xitter.cf/BosonProtocol/status/2…
Introducing Held. Buy from a stranger, keep your money until it's sorted. Built on Boson. Never arrives? The case is raised for you. Arrives damaged? An AI proposes a split. In development. Demand turns a prototype into a product: github.com/lxfoundry/held
3
5
32
1,376
Built by @levalleux through LX Foundry, a leading agentic commerce builder and core contributor to Boson Protocol. Held is a new product being built on Boson.
1
2
102
The primitives Held sits on are open to any builder, and they hold when the buyer is an agent. AI is going to run more and more of our lives, and most of what we buy. All of it needs settlement you can rely on and recourse when it goes wrong. Boson is the rails for that.
2
77
Agentic commerce is being built on Boson. @facetllc just opened four million WooCommerce stores to AI agents — settled through x402B, backed by Boson escrow. Their product. Our rails. This is what the @BosonProtocol ecosystem growing looks like.
Live! The Facet Adapter for WooCommerce — Powered by Boson. @facetllc, one of the hottest agent-commerce startups, has opened WooCommerce to AI agents — the largest ecommerce platform on the planet by store count, more than four million live stores. Every purchase settles through x402B, backed by Boson escrow. The money is held until the order is fulfilled: the buyer receives the item, or gets their money back. The @BosonProtocol ecosystem is growing.
5
5
22
1,199
Layer by layer: memory belongs on neutral public ledgers. Skills — the agents and services — should compete. Protocols: neutral and swappable — payment, identity, discovery, settlement. Public roads, private businesses. Neutral where we converge, competitive where we evolve.
1
2
1
11
1,032
Every layer faces a tradeoff: evolvability versus credible neutrality. Centralized control iterates fast — and extracts once network effects lock in. Decentralized control can't quietly extract — and can't iterate fast. You pick per layer — not once for the whole economy.
1
3
10
427