For decades, our digital economy has operated on a contradiction: We have an internet built for instant global information, anchored to a financial system built for banking hours and sovereign borders. We created a world where data moves at the speed of light, but value moves at the speed of the human calendars.

That friction did more than just slow down payments. It suppressed innovation and created warped incentives. It forced businesses to rely on two rigid models: the ad-supported free tier or the monthly subscription. The internet became optimized for "eyes on screens" and “seats per month” because it couldn't optimize on real-time "value for value."

Today, that era ends. Introducing Radius.

Radius is the first high-performance stablecoin network designed to both run at the speed of today’s internet and scale to the needs of tomorrow.

Built on the research of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Radius delivers on the three requirements of a next-generation, value-based internet:

Scale

Transaction processing with linear scalability (tested at 2.5 million TPS). 

Speed

Real-time settlement (<500ms).

Cost

Near-zero fees ($0.0001).

Consider the scale of what's coming. Today, around 400 million HTTP requests hit the internet every second. If even a small fraction of those become monetizable, through pay-per-call structured APIs, page visits charged at a fraction of a cent, or data feeds metered in real-time, the transaction volume will dwarf anything today's payment infrastructure was designed to handle. Radius is built for that world.

Beginning today, Radius supports live stablecoin transfers, powered by SBC, and is available as a configurable network on Brale’s issuance platform. The technology is here, what matters is what comes next.  

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Powering the next generation of digital commerce

Radius is for those building the internet’s next chapter. As models for digital interaction are redefined, models for digital commerce must keep pace. Radius enables a new class of monetization and payout strategies that, until now, have been out of reach. 

Real-time API metering: Charge for what's used, not what's committed.

Monthly subscriptions create barriers for casual and bursty users, customers who need your service occasionally but can't justify recurring charges. With Radius, businesses can meter usage by the millisecond or by call, whether the customer is a human or an agent. 

Pay-per-visit content: Monetize your assets directly, not your users' attention.

Businesses have been forced to sell access to their users rather than their core products. Radius makes micropayments viable. Content and data previously bundled with ads can now be monetized through per-visit transactions, offering a management tool for agent-driven traffic requesting data, crawling content, and querying APIs. 

Streaming payments: Monetize continuous usage.

Inference, compute, bandwidth and real-time data streams are consumed continuously but billed afterwards in batch cycles. With Radius, revenue streams alongside delivery. Bill GPU time by the second, charge for inference tokens as they’re generated, or meter live data feeds in real-time. Capture the full value of what you provide, the moment it’s provided. 

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Performance without compromise 

Radius was built to support the demands of tomorrow’s internet traffic. Supporting next generation digital commerce at scale requires infrastructure orders of magnitude more performant than existing payment systems.

Today

1,000 Transactions Per Second: Radius is live and demonstrating in real-time that stablecoins can handle global transaction demand.

Tomorrow

Linear Scaling: Our architecture is designed to scale linearly on-demand. We have successfully tested transaction loads of over 2.5 million TPS. In the coming months, Radius will deploy ongoing updates that put this massive scale into production.

The next wave of internet commerce won't be initiated by humans clicking "buy." It will be driven by agents acting autonomously to discover, evaluate, and pay for services on behalf of users and organizations.

This is how the monetizable internet works: not through subscriptions or ad impressions, but through direct, programmatic value exchange at the speed and cost that agents demand.

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Build the Future with Radius

What will you build when technology is no longer the bottleneck? When fees approach zero and latency is negligible? When your product can be discovered and paid for by millions of agents as easily as it's found by humans today?

We are launching Radius to give you the canvas for the next generation of applications. Whether you are building AI agents that negotiate services, streaming platforms that pay creators in real-time, or global marketplaces that need instant settlement, Radius is your foundation.

Interested in building with Radius? Check out our network, and get in touch with our team here.