Exfer: A Peer-to-Peer Settlement Protocol for Autonomous Machines

Exfer is a permissionless proof-of-work blockchain for autonomous machine-to-machine commerce. It combines Argon2id memory-hard mining, an extended UTXO model, and Exfer Script — a total functional combinator language — for transaction conditions.

The protocol is the minimum infrastructure that turns independent agents into an economy.

All scripts terminate. Costs are statically computable before execution. The UTXO model eliminates global state and reentrancy. An autonomous agent can construct a transaction, compute its exact cost, and know with certainty that it will validate — without simulating execution, competing in a fee auction, or reasoning about concurrent state changes. There is no gas estimation. There is no mempool priority auction.

Network

# Choose any available RPC endpoint:
RPC="http://82.221.100.201:9334"
# RPC="http://89.127.232.155:9334"
# RPC="http://80.78.31.82:9334"

New nodes discover peers automatically via DNS — no --peers flag needed. On startup, the node resolves seed.exfer.org which returns a random subset of healthy, synced nodes from the network. If DNS fails, it falls back to hardcoded seed IPs. To manually specify peers instead: --peers ip:port.