AI agents in crypto
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.
Top 5 reads + AI agent finds, every day at 6:30 a.m. Central. Weekly roundup on Sundays.
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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.