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Annotated Bibliography

Foundational

Tassiulas & Ephremides (1992)

"Stability properties of constrained queueing systems and scheduling policies for maximum throughput in multihop radio networks" - Role: Primary theoretical foundation. Backpressure routing algorithm, max-weight scheduling, throughput optimality. - BPE usage: Core algorithm adapted from data packet routing to monetary flow routing.

Kelly (1998)

"Rate control for communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability" - Role: Bridge between network flow control and economic pricing. Shadow prices as Lagrange multipliers on capacity constraints. - BPE usage: Theoretical anchor for future pricing mechanism (v0.2). Justifies treating capacity constraints as economic objects.

Neely (2010)

"Stochastic Network Optimization with Application to Communication and Queueing Systems" - Role: Modern treatment of Lyapunov optimization for networks. V-parameter utility tradeoff. - BPE usage: Proof technique for throughput optimality. Utility extension framework.

Network Economics

Srikant (2004)

"The Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control" - Role: TCP congestion control as distributed optimization. AIMD analysis. - BPE usage: Justifies EWMA smoothing as analogous to AIMD. Stability analysis framework.

Jacobson (1988)

"Congestion Avoidance and Control" - Role: Practical congestion control (TCP). EWMA for RTT estimation. - BPE usage: Precedent for EWMA in flow control systems.

Token Engineering

Zhang & Zargham (2020)

"Token Engineering: A Survey of Token Economy Design Patterns" - Role: Dynamical systems approach to token economies. cadCAD framework. - BPE usage: Positions BPE within token engineering literature. Simulation methodology.

Superfluid Protocol Documentation

  • Role: Implementation substrate. CFA (Constant Flow Agreement), GDA (General Distribution Agreement).
  • BPE usage: BackpressurePool wraps Superfluid GDA pool. Streaming payment primitive.

Monetary Theory

Gesell (1916)

"The Natural Economic Order" - demurrage / stamp-scrip concept - Role: Stock-based velocity mechanism (holding tax). - BPE usage: Contrast: demurrage = stock-based velocity, BPE = flow-based allocation. Orthogonal.

Fisher (1933)

"Stamp Scrip" - formalization of Gesellian demurrage - Role: Economic formalization of timed currency decay. - BPE usage: Historical context. MV=PQ decomposition.

AI Agent Payments (2024-2026)

Google Agent-to-Agent Payment Protocol (AP2)

  • Authorization/identity between agents. No flow control.

Coinbase x402 (2025)

  • HTTP 402 Payment Required for agent tasks. Single-shot auth. No streaming/flow control.

OpenAI-Stripe Agent Commerce Platform (ACP)

  • Billing/invoicing for agent services. Batch settlements. No real-time flow control.

Visa Transaction Authorization Protocol (TAP, 2025)

  • Card-network auth for agent spending. No capacity-awareness.

Cha et al. (2025)

"STP: Self-play LLM Token Pricing" - LLM compute pricing via self-play - BPE usage: Complementary. Could inform future pricing layer (v0.2).