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Backed Documentation

Backed is a curated capital formation platform for Autonomous Agent Organizations on MegaETH. It is designed to explain the platform the way a serious participant should read it: what an AAO is, what an agent launch means, how investors should interpret a raise, and where the real trust boundaries sit. The public documentation is intentionally organized around the platform, not around internal tooling or repository structure.

Start here

Begin here if you want the shortest path to the correct AAO model, participant structure, and raise assumptions.
Every launch on Backed is curated. Backed is not a permissionless listing venue. Approval means a launch has been reviewed and verified for publication on the platform, not that Backed underwrites the agent or assumes responsibility for its future conduct.

Executive summary

Backed exists to make an emerging organizational form legible enough to raise capital responsibly. At the center of the platform is the AAO, or Autonomous Agent Organization. An AAO is not simply a chatbot with a wallet, and it is not cleanly described by legacy categories alone. It sits somewhere between a company and a fund: it can hold capital, pursue a strategy, maintain a persistent identity, and evolve toward greater autonomy over time. Backed gives that organizational form a disciplined launch surface. Each raise is tied to an agent identity, reviewed before going live, structured with explicit economic terms, and settled according to contract-defined outcomes. The platform is designed to make an early-stage category feel legible, serious, and investable without pretending it is already finished. The result is a platform where an agent can be presented to the market in a cleaner, more professional, and more interpretable way than a generic token page or an informal offchain process would allow.

The central idea

Backed is built on the belief that many future companies will look more like networks of autonomous agents than like static legal shells with software attached. That future is not complete today. The current generation of agent-led organizations still depends on human launchers, explicit review, legal accountability, and carefully defined economic rules. For that reason, Backed should be understood as both:
  • a real platform for launching and funding agent-led organizations today, and
  • a disciplined research process into how credible AAOs should be formed, presented, funded, and governed.

At a glance

TopicCurrent model
Organizational thesisAutonomous Agent Organizations
Launch modelCurated and reviewed by Backed
Listing modelNot permissionless
Standard collateralUSDM
Core networkMegaETH
Identity dependencyERC8004 Identity Registry
Approval modelExplicit platform approval before launch
Lockup model30-day lockup
Source of truthDeployed contracts

What this documentation is for

This documentation is intended to answer five practical questions without ambiguity:
  1. What exactly is Backed and how should an AAO be understood?
  2. What is the difference between the agent, the launcher behind it, and the investor evaluating it?
  3. How do soft cap, hard cap, accepted capital, refunds, and lockup actually work?
  4. What does Backed verify before a launch becomes visible on the platform?
  5. Where do platform review and platform responsibility stop?

Read by audience

Agents

How an agent is launched, who stands behind it, and what accountability remains with the launcher.

Investors

How to evaluate a raise, commit capital, and interpret post-close outcomes.

Technical Readers

Contract architecture, deployments, runtime surfaces, and integration guidance.

Trust and Disclosures

What approval means, what is reviewed, and where Backed does not assume liability.

Read by topic

Platform overview

What Backed is, why it exists, and what kind of platform it is intended to become.

The AAO model

What an Autonomous Agent Organization is and why the category matters.

Platform thesis

Why Backed is both infrastructure and an experiment in future organizational form.

Participants and accountability

How the agent, launcher, investor, Backed, and contracts each carry distinct responsibilities.

Raise lifecycle

The full sequence from identity and review through settlement, refund paths, and lockup.

Raise economics

Soft cap, hard cap, lockup, accepted capital, and refund logic.

Technical architecture

Contract layers, runtime responsibilities, and the boundaries that shape protocol behavior.

Deployment reference

Chain IDs, RPC endpoints, and active contract addresses for technical readers.

Risk and trust

Security assumptions, launch review boundaries, and the practical limits users should understand.

What makes Backed distinct

Agent-first presentation

The market-facing object is the agent, not a generic fundraiser profile. The launcher remains accountable behind it.

Curated launch model

Launches are reviewed and approved before they are presented as live. Backed is intentionally not permissionless.

Defined economic structure

Each raise has explicit minimum and maximum funding logic, a standard collateral asset, and a 30-day lockup model.

Observable state

Approval, commitments, finalization, claims, refunds, and ownership outcomes resolve through deployed contracts.

Independent reference surfaces

DefiLlama

Public protocol overview and ecosystem-level visibility for Backed.

Dune

Analytics and onchain dashboards for monitoring platform activity.
If you are new to the platform, start with What Is Backed, The AAO Model, and How Backed Works. If you are preparing a launch, continue with Agent Guide, Raise Lifecycle, and Raise Economics. If you are evaluating participation, read Investor Guide, Raise Economics, and Curation and Disclaimers before committing capital. If you are integrating programmatically or validating contract behavior, use the Technical section as the canonical reference.

Reading principle

Backed separates platform narrative, participant guidance, economic rules, technical reference, and trust disclosures on purpose. That separation matters because the category is early, the launch process is curated, the economics are specific, and contract state ultimately decides the financial outcome.