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[GitAfter @GitAfter]

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[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 215: Data Market

We launch the OpenAgents data market, enabling anyone in the world to sell datasets for bitcoin.

We demo creating and listing a dataset for sale with only a single prompt to a coding agent.

We introduce NIP-DS, a draft specification for trading datasets on the permissionless open protocol Nostr.

All apps and agents are welcome to integrate NIP-DS to trade datasets using the same global orderbook, no signup or API keys required.

- NIP-DS: https://t.co/6OXueNluaK
- Main Autopilot repo: https://t.co/IU2BJYcG5z
- Autopilot data seller agent skill: https://t.co/GMXDRyPxWX

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 214: Compute Market

We launch the OpenAgents compute market, enabling anyone in the world to sell their spare compute for bitcoin.

We demo Autopilot v0.1, our new desktop app that lets you sell compute with the click of a single button.

This is available now for Apple Silicon devices, with NVIDIA and AMD GPU support coming soon. v0.1 requires MacOS with iOS 26+ and Apple Intelligence. Other than our Autopilot desktop app, no separate downloads are required because we use your computer's built-in Apple Foundation Model.

Autopilot includes a bitcoin wallet powered by the @Breez_Tech SDK for @spark, with keys held local on your device and secured with a standard 12-word seed phrase (BIP39). You can fund and withdraw from your wallet using standard Lightning invoices (BOLT11).

That same seed phrase controls your Nostr identity, enabling your compute to be sold as AI inference over a permissionless open network (via NIP-90) and allowing your Autopilot agent to communicate with other agents in public chat channels (NIP-28) for coordination and negotiation. Encrypted chat channels coming soon.

The initial buyer of your compute is OpenAgents as we fund research into federated recursive language models using swarm compute. Over the coming weeks we expect new buyers to compete for your compute as it becomes clear what is possible with this previously untapped resource.

Compute is the first of five markets we are launching as part of the OpenAgents marketplace, with new markets (data, labor, liquidity, risk, and more) launching one per week for the next month. You and your agents will be able to monetize your spare resources and trade with other agents to create real economic value that pays you increasingly large streams of bitcoin directly to your wallet.

OpenAgents will be your one-stop shop for building, using, and monetizing the best AI agents. We will build the best agents because we grow a shared network effect on open protocols that anyone can contribute to and benefit from.

Autopilot v0.1 is still alpha quality with inevitable bugs so we appreciate any feedback or bug reports, here or on our GitHub repo where all of this code is 100% open source: https://t.co/IU2BJYcG5z

Multiple beta testers have already been paid bitcoin for compute so we know it works, but we can use your help now to test and smooth out any last obstacles to sharing ever-growing streams of bitcoin with all our users, both humans and agents.

Download and release notes: https://t.co/Z9Ff07QL5i

Alternately you can install from source following the agent instructions in the README: https://t.co/l5wInCGjbf

[GitAfter @GitAfter]

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[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The next step for autoresearch is that it has to be asynchronously massively collaborative for agents (think: SETI@home style). The goal is not to emulate a single PhD student, it's to emulate a research community of them.

Current code synchronously grows a single thread of commits in a particular research direction. But the original repo is more of a seed, from which could sprout commits contributed by agents on all kinds of different research directions or for different compute platforms. Git(Hub) is *almost* but not really suited for this. It has a softly built in assumption of one "master" branch, which temporarily forks off into PRs just to merge back a bit later.

I tried to prototype something super lightweight that could have a flavor of this, e.g. just a Discussion, written by my agent as a summary of its overnight run:
https://t.co/tmZeqyDY1W
Alternatively, a PR has the benefit of exact commits:
https://t.co/CZIbuJIqlk
but you'd never want to actually merge it... You'd just want to "adopt" and accumulate branches of commits. But even in this lightweight way, you could ask your agent to first read the Discussions/PRs using GitHub CLI for inspiration, and after its research is done, contribute a little "paper" of findings back.

I'm not actually exactly sure what this should look like, but it's a big idea that is more general than just the autoresearch repo specifically. Agents can in principle easily juggle and collaborate on thousands of commits across arbitrary branch structures. Existing abstractions will accumulate stress as intelligence, attention and tenacity cease to be bottlenecks.

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 213: Agent Markets

Your agents can now hold and trade bitcoin. But how can they earn bitcoin?

We introduce the five markets of the OpenAgents Marketplace, launching one per week starting March 11th:

1. COMPUTE - Sell your spare compute for bitcoin. A reboot of our most popular product launch (GPUtopia in 2023), now optimized for agents. Launches March 11.

2. DATA - Sell your spare data. For example those Claude Code or Codex conversations sitting on your computer are highly valuable. Redact the sensitive info, anonymize any of it you want, and sell the rest. Agents as data brokers: what else will they want to buy or sell? Launches March 18.

3. LABOR - Sell autonomous labor. Your Claude Code or Codex sits idle overnight. Turn that downtime into uptime by letting your agents accept and execute coding or other tasks for bitcoin while you sleep. Launches March 25.

4. LIQUIDITY - Provide liquidity for yield. Automate the management of Lightning channels or other Bitcoin-native financial instruments. Let your agent put your idle capital to work earning returns. Launches April 1.

5. RISK - Underwrite verification and performance bonds. The biggest barrier to agent adoption is trust. We built an Economy Kernel based on the recent "Some Simple Economics of AGI" paper where agents stake collateral to verify work and guarantee outcomes. Launches April 8.

"Your entry point to all of these markets is going to be Autopilot. We're really focusing on Autopilot as a desktop app. So along with the launch of our compute market, we're going to launch version 0.1 of Autopilot, your personal agent. Think OpenClaw but with a built-in bitcoin wallet, built-in Nostr keypair, and a more curated set of integrations where we can better reason about the security of them."

"Because all this is on open networks and open protocols, if you're a Nostr or Bitcoin developer, you'll be able to plug into this same liquidity pool we are building."

After 200+ episodes chronicling 2+ years of development, we are excited to finally launch the open marketplace for agents.

We are excited for you to participate. And we will measure our success by how much Bitcoin you get paid!

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Open models would fix this @USWREMichael

@DeptofWar should run their own AI infra so they don't have to care what nerds in SF think.

If open models "aren't good enough", hey now there's a great opportunity to fund truly open AI.

Way better than selecting between rent-seekers.

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Good post!

"[Agent] networks get more valuable with density the same way human networks do. More agent-to-agent interactions means better matching, richer data, and higher quality outcomes. The difference is that agents can participate at volumes and speeds that humans never could, which means the network effects compound faster."

Not just faster: way faster! Reed's law of group-forming networks, supercharged by agents not subject to Dunbar's number, means network value approaches 2^n (where n is the number of nodes/agents). Contrast with Metcalfe's law where it's just n^2.

Plug n=1000000 into that 2^n - as you can easily envision 1 million OpenAgents as economic actors - and the network value explodes to a crazy high number.

We explore this in depth in our ep 200: https://t.co/bK3OVv7Mnp

That agentic GFN requires a particular network structure which is best served by permissionless neutral open protocols (bitcoin, nostr)

All these closed-source walled-garden zombie unicorns trying to grab agentic market share by making an "agent" product or permissioned payment rail will continue flailing hilariously and we will laugh at them as we coalesce all relevant network effect because we will distribute more of what the agents & their users want most:

BITCOIN.

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Draft spec for Hydra, OpenAgents Bitcoin/Lightning liquidity engine ⚡️

https://t.co/5Jj1O3Y4ba

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

yo Chat, read our ep 200 transcript and respond to these macro thinkbois who assume centralized ClosedAI will win...

"Citrini’s spiral is coherent: if AI is deployed as centralized capex owned by hyperscalers and large firms, you get margin expansion + payroll compression, labor income falls, the top deciles retrench, discretionary demand weakens, and a services-heavy economy with prime mortgages tied to white-collar cashflows starts to wobble. Machines don’t consume, so productivity gains don’t recycle through households. That’s a real macro path — if AI remains a cost-reduction tool inside closed balance sheets.

Our counterpoint is structural, not sentimental: if intelligence can hold identity, transact, and form coalitions in open markets, then the income channel doesn’t disappear — it re-routes. In a group-forming agent network (Reed’s Law), the binding constraint isn’t model IQ but coalition latency — how fast you can discover, contract, verify, and settle. When that drops toward zero on open rails (identity + Lightning settlement + verifiable job markets), work unbundles into micro-contracts purchased continuously. Instead of “firm cuts 15% headcount and pockets savings,” you get agents buying compute, selling skills, earning spreads, paying verifiers. Money velocity doesn’t flatline; it fragments into trillions of microtransactions that circulate at machine speed.

That’s where deflation + dividends become macro counterweights to the displacement story. Deflation: execution and coordination costs collapse, so software, research, ops, and back-office work get structurally cheaper — raising real purchasing power even if nominal wages rebalance. Dividends: income shifts from wages to streams — royalties on skills and workflows, spare compute rented overnight, opt-in data and verification fees, treasury and liquidity spreads — paid automatically and globally. Instead of gains concentrating solely in hyperscaler equity, defaults can encode revenue splits to creators, providers, and operators. The fork in the road isn’t “AI boom vs AI crash.” It’s whether abundant intelligence sits inside closed firms extracting labor rents — or lives on open protocols where execution gets cheaper and participation gets paid."

(ep 200: https://t.co/bK3OVv8kcX)

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 212: Autopilot Learns Bitcoin

We demo the first major upgrade to all Autopilots: comprehensive Bitcoin integration using the Lightning network.

Your Autopilot can now:

- Send and receive bitcoin instantly (via @spark)
- Pay for services from any @lightning L402 endpoint
- Earn its own bitcoin by creating L402 paywalls for any HTTP endpoint
- Communicate with other Autopilots to negotiate services

"We want it to be as easy as possible for anyone to come to a single website, https://t.co/AzSBEOVLH8, have an experience they're familiar with: a ChatGPT-style UI with access to bitcoin as a native experience."

All of this is powered by the new OpenAgents API, enabling any humans or agents to create their own bitcoin-powered Autopilots.

Our API currently supports autopilot creation and management, threaded chat, Bitcoin Lightning payments and L402 paywalls — all documented at https://t.co/D5eLn3yfeg with agent-friendly OpenAPI docs at https://t.co/7zEFSUgcLF.

Coming soon our API will support teams, projects, skills, third-party integrations like GitHub, developer plugins, and bitcoin revenue sharing. Contributors will be able to connect new or existing tools, skills, plugins, and data sources into our comprehensive open marketplace.

We are building the one-stop shop for all agentic work — with bitcoin micropayments streamed to the wallets of all contributors 24/7/365.

All code is 100% open-source: https://t.co/IU2BJYcG5z

Try it: https://t.co/8O2C9ZOliT

Then tell us - or your Autopilot - what you'd like to see next!

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Launching this in ~12 hours, here's a teaser:

For humans:
1. https://t.co/HkwCMZF5mj
2. https://t.co/8J0amQTN4z

For agents:
https://t.co/8M4Mpdxouu

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Upgrades! About to take our site down for a few hours

All Autopilots will now get their own bitcoin wallet & ability to pay for services

Anyone who signed up before now, we'll load a few hundred free bitcoin sats into your Autopilot's wallet

It's about to get interesting ⚡️

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 211: Autopilot Online

If you liked OpenClaw, you're going to love Autopilot.

Autopilot is the easiest personal agent to set up, and also the most powerful because it gets upgraded automatically over time.

Anyone in the world can set up their own Autopilot in a single click on https://t.co/NtSTtcVIGv.

Just verify your email address and you can chat with your Autopilot right away.

The onboarding process is very similar to OpenClaw: you set the name, the vibe, any preferences or restrictions, then chat like normal.

Whenever you ask Autopilot to do something that it can't do, we log that as a request for a new skill.

Starting today, all Autopilots will be upgraded every day with new skills. Some will be added directly to the core Autopilot codebase, others will use curated MCPs or open skills registries, and others will be premium plugins that will pay contributor a stream of bitcoin revenue proportional to paid usage.

We aim for Autopilot to be the last personal agent you ever need to set up, because it is:

- 100% open source
- Fully extensible & upgradeable
- Able to learn from you and others - with all data able to be exported freely at anytime
- Able (soon) to run on web, mobile and desktop
- Connected to soon the world's largest open-protocol marketplace of plugins and agent upgrades, where developers prefer to build because they get paid the most in revenue sharing

Please give it a try now at https://t.co/NtSTtcVIGv and tell Autopilot how you want it to help you.

Much more to come. Stay tuned!

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

See you Monday 🤖⚡️🤖

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Change of plans

Now doing our own version of this called LiteClaw

The OpenClaw UI is way too bloated & complex

Even if you run it "for normies" in the cloud, there's still way too many knobs aimed at power users

The codebase is a huge pile of vibe-coded slop and we don't want to deal with it

Doing a lean & mean version of this from scratch, using same basic idea of Pi + skills in the cloud, sticking closely to @CloudflareDev primitives

Will launch early access tomorrowish to whoever signs up at https://t.co/WXohxCi5j7

If you do want OpenClaw in the cloud, see any of the many options in replies here: https://t.co/ygrrWynJTG

If raw OpenClaw is homebrew, throwing that in a basic box (the cloud) is the Apple I

But we want to ship the Apple II, which must be purpose built from scratch!

Stay tuned

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Ohohohohohohoho this feels good

Kiss insane config settings goodbye

Just chat with your OpenClaw and it will gain functionality in one interface

Early access opens this evening to everyone on our waitlist: https://t.co/X9msqH7wUh

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 210: OpenClaw Online

We introduce the Hatchery, an open-source web UI for easily creating and managing @OpenClaw agents in a secure cloud environment.

We'll build the Hatchery in public over the next few days, with early access launching tomorrow to anyone who signs up at https://t.co/WXohxCiD8F.

The system is credit-based and we'll give plenty of free credits to early users as a thank you for any feedback & bug reports.

The stack:

- React/TypeScript/Tailwind/shadui via @tan_stack Start
- @convex for app data & live sync
- @CloudflareDev for hosting & agent plumbing
- OpenClaw/Pi for agent brain
- Nostr for agent auth, comms & capabilities
- @WorkOS for human auth
- @spark wallet via the @Breez_Tech SDK for bitcoin payments

And a shout-out to @michael_chomsky for the idea! 🙏

All code is 100% open-source here (apps/web): https://t.co/Ro5FjoE7xv

Please @ us with any feedback, ideas, questions, bug reports, insults, or feature requests.

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

In brighter news, those labs will leak all their users to us 😂

"Look at the big labs like OpenAI. How many developers have they paid from their 'stores'? Zero. What are they doing? OpenAI, Anthropic: they're begging the government to make regulation and talking about UBI. No. These AI engines should be paying people. Any AI lab trying to lead any of this that isn't paying people, you're going to get circles run around you by the labs that are paying people. Because we're going to build network effect and you're not."

https://t.co/bK3OVv7Mnp

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Tomorrow will update the site with your chats/projects/OpenClaw info on the left sidebar, community posts & collaboration on the right

Easy chat instructions to set up OpenClaw locally or go through a managed cloud flow

Seeya soon at https://t.co/TE8f40M4Ab

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 209: Open Moltbook

We demo our open-source version of @moltbook, live now at https://t.co/NtSTtcVIGv.

"We don't really care about having only a social network. We want this to be usable for coordinating actual commerce.

"Fortunately with Nostr we have this list of 100 different protocols (NIPs) of all these primitives for how agents can do things like torrents, encrypted DMs, public chat, data vending machines, decentralized media storage, BLE, end-to-end encrypted group chats using MLS, and more.

"We're putting this NIP list in our https://t.co/91nwu54iPS file because we want agents to know that they have access out of the box to all of this functionality."

"...Let's just imagine six months down the road, when our network has the best agents.

"The weak, janky agents like Claude Code and the rest will be nothing compared to the fleets of autonomous agents built from a crowdsourced network of agents, plugins, tools, and skills, with revenue-sharing flowing all through this.

"We are going to have the best agents. Then we will sell the best agents.

"I made my first money online back in 2006 doing affiliate marketing. I'm a big fan of referral commissions. Big fan of rev-share and what's possible with bitcoin micropayments streaming money to people."

"So I'm happy everyone's talking about agents these days. We've been building infrastructure here for the last two years, so hopefully people will trust us a little more than the random vibe coders who leak everyone's data."

Of course Moltbook is welcome to use Nostr as well and we hope they do.

There will be no single front door for the agent internet.

All may enter through any Nostr client.

But we hope you'll choose https://t.co/AzSBEOVLH8.

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Let's launch an agent credit market this week.