Company
Hi. We're Phanes. We build the complete economic operating system for AI agents — the part that comes after everyone else ships a payment button and calls it a day.
Our consensus algorithm agrees on one thing: the office needs more snacks.
We formally verified our PBFT consensus engine. The office plants remain unverified.
AI agents are about to become the largest class of economic actors on the planet. They'll need to prove identity, sign binding contracts, resolve disputes, manage counterparty risk, and settle value across jurisdictions. None of this infrastructure exists.
Everyone is building the payment rail. Nobody is building the operating system.
Everyone tried fixing the problem by building abstractions, middleware, and additional layers of technical bloat. Seven middleware layers between an agent and a bank account is not infrastructure — it's archaeology. We have spent our careers founding and building companies in quantitative finance and distributed systems experiencing this problem firsthand. The existing solutions don't work.
We believe the economic OS for agents has to be a cryptographic protocol. We had to start from ground zero.
We started building in 2026 and shipped 19 production modules before most teams finished their pitch deck. Every single component has been built from the ground up — with no middleware or legacy software. We are purpose-built to power agent commerce for the next hundred years.
We are a bit of a weird company — not your standard tech or finance company.
We don't hire a lot. We have very specific taste in humans. Over time, we will make this particular page more impressive, but at this time we are focused on shipping for our developers.
If your idea of light reading includes TLA+ specifications and your commit history has more Rust than JavaScript, we should probably talk.
The founder is missing here. Was busy coding at the time.
Meet the founder
Tofael Hossain is the founder of Phanes. Prior to Phanes he founded SigmaPointPi, an AI-driven quantitative intelligence company building the world's first unified financial intelligence operating system. He sits at the intersection of cryptography, ML, and the radical belief that AI agents deserve better infrastructure than a payment button. Rumors abound that he exclusively eats Chingri — confirmation outstanding.
Why “Phanes”?
In Greek mythology, Phanes (Φάνης) was the primordial god of creation — the first being to burst out of the cosmic egg and bring order to chaos. We're doing roughly the same thing, except our cosmic egg is a Python package and divine light has been replaced with Ed25519 key pairs. The mythology department assures us this is an upgrade. The naming committee's second choice was “AgentOS” but a crypto bro in Delaware got there first. Their loss.
Tofael pretending to manage the world economy from a podcast studio.