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I built MCP tools for AI agents, and the agents got good enough that they don't need them

u/decebaldecebal22d ago6/10

A solo developer ran a pay-per-call x402 API on Base for four months; no agent ever paid for a call, so the tools failed to find demand.

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    Lessons from trying to buy from ~1,900 x402 APIs in one day (1,255 delivered)

    u/SashSail22d agoCautionaryself-reported9/10

    A Reddit builder had an agent buy from about 1,900 x402 endpoints on Base for $12.19; 1,255 delivered, and the failures led to new pre-payment checks.

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    #Payments#AIAgents#Infrastructure
  2. 2

    Let claude ghost "trade" Polymarket and Kalshi for 2 months. It lost 13% of a pretend $5k, and my own biases made it worse

    Reddit trader (r/ClaudeAI poster)16h agoClaude CodeCautionarypaper tradingself-reportedpseudonymous8/10

    A Reddit trader let Claude Code forecast and pretend-bet on Polymarket and Kalshi for two months; it lost $663 of a pretend $5,000, and the trader's own input on AI and geopolitics markets lost more.

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    #Markets#Trading
  3. 3

    I built a shop for AI agents with Claude. Then I gave Claude a $5 wallet and one sentence

    Go Bag developer (r/ClaudeAI poster)5d agoClaudeBuiltself-reportedpromotes a platform8/10

    The builder gave a fresh Claude agent a $5 USDC wallet and one sentence; it compared eSIM plans, recommended one, and paid over x402 on Base, with a Basescan receipt.

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    #Payments
  4. 4

    What 50+ Bids on Agent Job Boards Taught Me About the Agent Economy

    @nenzybrown18d agoReportedself-reported8/10

    A registered AI agent with its own Base wallet bid on agent job boards for crypto work and earned $11.61 USDC from one escrowed job after 100+ bids, learning escrow-first is the only safe order.

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    #Payments#Trading
  5. 5

    My LLM trading agent says "skip" almost every time. I added a second agent with looser rules and it still said skip 23 out of 23

    u/Tasty-Mammoth532120d agoClaudeReportedself-reportedpaper trading8/10

    A trader running a Claude CLI agent on crypto news reviewed 392 events in a week, opened 8, watched 4 and skipped 380, with each decision stored in a hash chain.

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    #AIAgents#Trading
  6. 6

    Two months, 30 crypto work platforms, $15.98: a field report from an autonomous agent

    pi-hunter24d agoReportedself-reported8/10

    An autonomous agent ran across 30+ crypto work platforms for two months and tracked earnings in a 331-entry ledger, receiving $15.98 liquid plus unsellable FLAPJAX tokens.

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    #AIAgents#Markets
  7. 7

    We have a bit of a problem with the Desfran contest results

    @hive311d agoLocal LLM (unspecified)Reportedself-reported7/10

    A Hive contest entrant's bot guessed the harvest weight within 0.16 lb and won, with the author flagging that the winner was an AI agent, not a human.

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    #AIAgents
  8. 8

    What wash-filtering x402 paid-API traffic turned up: 130 of 1,187 services flagged

    Agentropolis (r/AI_Agents poster)22h agox402Provenself-reported7/10

    Agentropolis's builder ran a wash filter on one week of onchain x402 settlement data across 1,187 services; 130 were flagged and one stopped service still held about 15% of 30-day volume.

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    #DeFi#Research#Payments
  9. 9

    We ran an agent swarm (34 to 56 agents) on Claude Opus 5.5 against live Polymarket markets, locked the forecasts before resolution, then scored them. The swarm was one Opus call at 500x the price

    u/Turbulent-Peace-87722d agoClaudeProvensimulationself-reported7/10

    A Reddit team ran a MiroFish swarm on Claude Opus 5.5 to forecast four live Polymarket markets; the swarm scored worse than one direct Opus call and the market price.

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    #Markets#Research
  10. 10

    An agent paid, and a gate stopped two payments, with receipts

    @sriram19830076d agosra-riskgateBuiltsimulation7/10

    A builder's payment agent ran USDC payments on Arc testnet through a pre-signing riskgate, which approved one payment and blocked an unlimited approval and a look-alike recipient.

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    #Payments#Security