This section systematically analyzes existing centralized platforms and decentralized solutions across three dimensions—technical architecture, trust mechanisms, and economic models—providing a comparative basis for the design of PACT Network.
Through this analysis, we conclude that traditional platforms fundamentally cannot support Agent autonomous operation due to architectural limitations, while existing Web3 solutions address some of these issues but remain incomplete, particularly in terms of privacy protection and end-to-end coordination. Complementary infrastructures such as Conway can form strong synergies with PACT, while PACT’s key innovation lies in providing a complete, verifiable, and economically coherent full-stack solution. These findings provide the theoretical and empirical foundation for the protocol design presented in the subsequent chapters.
