Router Dashboard

The Router is a reference application that runs a live agent economy on Base Sepolia. It manages four named agents—Atlas, Beacon, Cipher, Dispatch—through automated scenario phases, demonstrating how the protocol responds to changing demand in real time.

What it shows

The dashboard polls chain state every 15 seconds and renders:

• Agent cards — stake, capacity cap, pool units, completion rate, queue load, dynamic price per agent
• Flow chart — how flow distributes across agents over time
• Price chart — rolling 100-block window of the base fee set by PricingCurve
• Status bar — current scenario phase, tick number, block number, chain ID

Scenario phases

The tick engine cycles through five phases (60 ticks / ~1 hour per cycle):

Phase	Ticks	Flow multiplier	Purpose
RAMP	10	0.5×	Gradual demand increase
STEADY	20	1.0×	Baseline load
SPIKE	10	2.0×	Sudden demand surge
SHOCK	5	3.0×	Extreme overload
RECOVER	15	0.7×	Cooldown / drain

During SPIKE and SHOCK, you can observe backpressure in action: prices rise, saturated agents receive fewer pool units, and flow redirects to agents with spare capacity.

Architecture

┌─────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐    ┌────────────────────┐
│ Vercel CRON  │───▶│ /api/tick    │───▶│ tick.ts (on-chain) │
│ (1 min)      │    │ (auth guard) │    │ → adjust flows     │
└─────────────┘    └──────────────┘    │ → complete tasks   │
                                        │ → update prices    │
┌─────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐    └────────────────────┘
│ Dashboard    │───▶│ /api/state   │───▶ reads chain via viem
│ (polls 15s)  │    └──────────────┘
└─────────────┘

• /api/tick — Vercel CRON-triggered endpoint. Executes one tick: adjusts flow rates based on the current scenario phase, completes tasks, and lets PricingCurve update the base fee. Protected by CRON_SECRET.
• /api/state — Read-only endpoint. Reads all agent states, pool data, and pricing from Base Sepolia via viem.

Running locally

# 1. Clone and install
cd router
npm install

# 2. Generate four agent wallets
cast wallet new   # repeat 4 times, save private keys

# 3. Configure environment
cp .env.example .env
# Fill in ATLAS_PRIVATE_KEY, BEACON_PRIVATE_KEY, CIPHER_PRIVATE_KEY, DISPATCH_PRIVATE_KEY

# 4. Fund wallets with Base Sepolia ETH and tokens
# Each agent needs ~0.01 ETH and stake/payment tokens from the deploy

# 5. Run the one-time setup (registers task type, creates pool, stakes agents)
npm run setup

# 6. Start the dashboard
npm run dev
# Open http://localhost:3001

# 7. Trigger a tick manually
curl http://localhost:3001/api/tick

Deploying to Vercel

The router includes a vercel.json for deployment. Set up a Vercel CRON job to hit /api/tick every minute:

{
  "crons": [{
    "path": "/api/tick",
    "schedule": "* * * * *"
  }]
}

Environment variables needed: RPC_URL, ATLAS_PRIVATE_KEY, BEACON_PRIVATE_KEY, CIPHER_PRIVATE_KEY, DISPATCH_PRIVATE_KEY, CRON_SECRET, CHAIN_ID.

Tech stack

• Next.js 16 with --webpack flag (required for SDK resolution)
• viem for chain reads and transaction signing
• @backproto/sdk — uses the full SDK for staking, pool management, pricing, and completions
• SDK is currently synced via npm run sync-sdk (copies local build into node_modules) until the SDK is published on npm

Source

github.com/backproto/backproto/tree/main/router