Investor round · Open
The agent payments rail for freight.
Software agents now hold budgets, negotiate, and pay — and the payment standard they use just went institutional. Freight has no agent-payments layer. Nettrux built the working rail. We're raising $1M on a SAFE at a $20M post-money cap to take it to production.
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The moment
Agents are becoming buyers.
Jul 2026
x402 goes institutional
x402 — the open protocol for machine payments over HTTP — became a Linux Foundation standard.
40 members
The x402 Foundation
Founding roster includes Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Google, and AWS.
100M+
Payments processed
Through the protocol's reference facilitator — almost entirely micro-transactions (~$0.30 average). Nobody has put invoice-scale money on it.
One hundred million machine payments prove the rail works at machine speed — at an average of about thirty cents each. Invoice-scale money is the white space, and freight invoices are where we live.
Working system, not slideware
The Agent Factoring Rail runs end-to-end today.
01
An agent negotiates Net-30 terms
priced, signed, bound to an exact terms hash.
02
A factor approves them
through a seam built for factor networks.
03
A named human mints the escrow
agents cannot — the platform refuses them.
04
Delivery evidence verifies
against stored documents, checksums recomputed.
05
Funds release
citing the verification decision, on an append-only ledger.
In the recorded live run, two freight rails reached RELEASED end-to-end on our production billing engine — once straight through on verified delivery documents, and once through a dispute that a second, separately-empowered person resolved on the record. Then we attacked our own gates:
REFUSED · 401
An agent credential attempted the mint. The surface does not recognize software as an approver.
REFUSED · 400
An evidence bundle with fabricated document checksums — refused before any state changed.
EXACTLY ONCE
The mint was replayed. The engine returned the original recorded result — one approval mints one agreement, ever.
18/18
The escrow contract's full test suite on a live local test chain — including a hard refusal to sign on any real-money chain.
Sandbox disclosure: the recorded run uses a test chain, a valueless test token, a deterministic stand-in factor, and fictional parties. Every state transition, policy decision, and refusal is the real platform engine. No real money exists anywhere in the system today — by design, until the production gates pass.
Who is building this
A working freight operation, not a cold start.
Nettrux is a California 3PL with production systems live today: a billing engine on production accounting, enterprise shipper billing including EDI, an operating factoring workflow, a production carrier-payout rail, and a customer portal. The agent rail is built on those systems — the venture starts from a freight operation that already moves real loads and real invoices. Distribution is designed to run through established carrier-payment networks and factoring companies; those discussions are active and under negotiation.
Round structure
$1M SAFE · $20M post-money cap.
| Instrument | SAFE (post-money) |
| Target raise | $1,000,000 |
| Valuation cap | $20,000,000 post-money |
| Discount / pro-rata | Discussed with qualified investors |
| Structure | Converts at the venture's first priced round; IP licensed into the venture, never assigned |
Use of funds
| Engineering — protocol layer + rail | 45% |
| Legal, compliance & production gates | 20% |
| Pilot operations | 15% |
| Independent security & systems audit | 8% |
| Infrastructure | 4% |
| Reserve | 8% |
Proposed allocation. Legal and audit lines are required spend — the production gates are preconditions to revenue.
Why this one holds
Compliance is the design, not the appendix.
- —Humans authorize every mint — agents submit, route, and surface; they never create a financial obligation.
- —Deterministic evidence policy — money moves on verified documents, or it doesn't move and a person rules on the record.
- —Append-only audit ledger — every transition, actor, and guard check, citable by hash.
- —Fiat in, fiat out — no crypto exposure for participants; the chain is evidence and coordination, not settlement.
- —No real money until the gates pass — counsel, banking, and pilot sign-off are stages of the roadmap, not afterthoughts.
The full packet goes deeper.
Business model and unit economics, market sizing, milestone roadmap mapped to the production gates, structure and cap-table scenarios, and the complete risk factors — available to qualified investors on request.
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Private & confidential — for prospective investors only. This page is a summary for discussion and is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. Any investment would be made only through definitive documents, only to qualified investors, and only following review by securities counsel. Figures describing third-party networks and protocols are as publicly reported or as stated by their principals and have not been independently audited by Nettrux. Projections are illustrative assumptions, not forecasts. Partnership discussions described here are under negotiation and not concluded agreements.