i gave an AI $50 and told it "pay for yourself or you die"
48 hours later it turned $50 into $2,980
and it's still alive
autonomous trading agent on polymarket
every 10 minutes it:
โ scans 500-1000 markets
โ builds fair value estimate with claude
โ finds mispricing > 8%
โ calculates position size (kelly criterion, max 6% bankroll)
โ executes
โ pays its own API bill from profits
if balance hits $0, the agent dies
so it learned to survive
built in rust for speed
claude API for reasoning (agent pays for its own inference)
runs on a $4.5/month VPS
weather markets: parses NOAA before polymarket updates sports: scrapes injury reports, finds mispricing crypto: on-chain metrics + sentiment
$50 โ $2,980 in 48 hours
how much do u think iโll see in a week?