What AI agents are actually doing on-chain.
Real use cases: people and teams who put an AI agent to work in crypto, what it did, and how it went. Launches, deals and agent news go in Crypto Reads. The best use cases go in the morning email.
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I'm trying to sell tools to AI agents (not people) for 1–25 cents a call. Two weeks in: 1 real customer, 7 cents, and a lot of bots that only look.
A solo developer sold 12 pay-per-call x402 research tools to AI agents on Base and reports one paying customer and 7 cents earned in two weeks.
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Lessons from trying to buy from ~1,900 x402 APIs in one day (1,255 delivered)
A builder let an agent buy from roughly 1,900 x402 endpoints on Base in one day: 1,255 delivered for $12.19, exposing double-pay, price-drift and request-format failures.
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Agent passports: proving a KYC'd human runs an AI agent without storing any PII (BIP-340, verified client-side)
A Reddit developer issued 39 signed BIP-340 agent passports linking AI agents to a KYC'd operator via hash only; an independent check verified a live signature and caught a flipped bit, but all passports share one operat
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Build and maintain a local ops dashboard with agents
A solo business owner had OpenClaw agents build a local mission-control dashboard replacing Asana, though open-ended overnight runs burned tokens.
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Reclaim forgotten crypto airdrops and deposits
A user had Claude and ChatGPT agents scan blockchain history for forgotten airdrops and deposits, recovering about 10x their annual AI cost.