TLAY

TLAY builds economic infrastructure for autonomous machines, giving robots, charging equipment and energy devices a programmable account controlled by their owner so they can collect payment, deliver work and settle, while producing operating records any third party can verify. Two open-source components carry this. BoAT is an economic runtime embedded in the machine, about 58 KB fully loaded, writing device-bound DID identity, owner-defined permissions, data attestation and payment authorisation into IoT chips, with the private key kept on the edge device rather than a central server. HashAnchor verifies device signatures, links machine activity to payment events, batches records into a Merkle root anchored on-chain and issues portable receipts. Together with a configurable scenario framework they form a pay, work, proof, settle loop.

The first reference implementation, eCandle, applies pay-as-you-go billing to energy devices: a device is funded from an on-chain capital pool, activated by stablecoin payment, signs proof of delivered service and distributes revenue to stakeholders automatically. On 27 May 2026, TLAY demonstrated autonomous trading between an eCandle and a Bitaxe miner at the Arc Builder Spotlight: every 10 seconds the miner weighed the electricity price against its own mining economics, signed a USDC payment on-device and settled on Arc testnet when the trade made sense, and issued no request when it did not. The approach was disclosed publicly in August 2026. The settlement layer is a replaceable module already covering Polygon, Base, BNB Chain, HashKey Chain, Arc, Solana and Lightning, settling in USDC, USDT and BTC.