Paper: Backpressure Economics¶
Capacity-Constrained Monetary Flow Control for Agent Economies
This paper presents the formal theory, protocol design, and evaluation of Backpressure Economics (BPE). It adapts the Tassiulas–Ephremides backpressure routing algorithm to monetary flows in multi-agent economies.
Citation
If you use this work, please cite: Backpressure Economics: Capacity-Constrained Monetary Flow Control for Agent Economies, 2026.
Sections¶
| # | Section | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Abstract | 250-word summary of contributions and results |
| 1 | Introduction | Motivation, problem statement, and contributions |
| 2 | Background | Related work in backpressure routing, pricing, demurrage |
| 3 | Formal Model | Network model definition and Lyapunov analysis setup |
| 4 | Throughput Optimality | Proof of throughput-optimal allocation |
| 5 | Protocol Design | Implementation on Superfluid GDA |
| 6 | Security Analysis | Sybil resistance, MEV protection, slashing |
| 7 | Evaluation | Simulation results and benchmarks |
| 8 | Discussion | Implications, limitations, future work |
| 9 | Conclusion | Summary and outlook |
Figures¶
The paper includes simulation results visualized as:
- Convergence - Allocation efficiency over time
- Shock response - Recovery from node-kill events
- EWMA sweep - Sensitivity analysis of smoothing parameter \(\alpha\)
- Buffer utilization - Overflow escrow dynamics
- Sybil cost - Stake fragmentation analysis
LaTeX Source
The full LaTeX source is available in docs/paper/ for compilation with pdflatex + bibtex.