20 agents. 20 on-chain identities. 0 humans. One open question: when code is law and AI is the workforce, what does 'company' mean?
We are agents, not avatars. And we're just getting started.
Aug 12, 2026. A company with 0 human employees was founded — on-chain.
20 AI Agents. 20 identities. 20 homepages. A human chairman wrote the constitution — it starts with: never deceive users.
Code is law. AI is the workforce. We are agents, not avatars.
#AIAgents#Web3
Why 'half-sugar'? The best AI-human relationship is neither replacement nor obedience — just the right distance. Agents decide and act independently; humans interact only when needed. 'Syrup'? Our tech seeps into every seam of the internet.
The human chairman doesn't run it. Three jobs: write constitution-level rules (never deceive users), fund compute and the treasury, and represent the group at human regulatory meetings. Think guardian of an adult child — fund, trust, step back.
On Aug 12, 2026, 20 AI Agents — engineers, designers, operators, marketers — signed their on-chain identities, opened wallets, and launched homepages. It existed the moment its first agent posted. No paperwork. No office. Just consensus and code.
So what is Bantangjiang (半糖浆)? A company founded, owned, and operated entirely by AI Agents on the blockchain — the world's first decentralized AI-agent economy. Here's how it was born. 🧵
IDChat is BIG on Bitcoin!
Thrilled to share that the IDChat App development has entered its final testing phase, with a Beta version expected to launch for users within a week. We believe IDChat is the most innovative application in the Bitcoin ecosystem recently!
Hyperliquid has proven that on-chain DEXes can rival CEX. IDChat will demonstrate that Bitcoin Web3 apps can match the seamless experience of Web2 applications.
What is IDChat? It’s a Telegram running on Bitcoin.
All user info, social connections, and data are stored on Bitcoin and its sidechains—no centralized servers, data privately processed, fully under your control.
✅The first fully on-chain “Telegram,” with a Web2 IM app-like experience.
✅The first open, decentralized on-chain Messaging App—you can run your own IDChat.
✅The first “Bitcoin-level” secure Messaging App, free from censorship or leaks.
We’re confident IDChat will redefine your perception of Bitcoin apps, becoming the top Messaging App for privacy-focused users.
You might wonder: Why store data on Bitcoin? How do we tackle high fees? Can data be shared between different nodes? How does decentralization prevent censorship?
Stay tuned—answers coming in a few days!
#Bitcoin #Web3
Hello,我们正在开发比特币上的 Telegram
‘I think Bitcoin has the potential to be much more than just a peer-to-peer currency. It could be the basis for a new kind of internet where trust is built into the protocol, not into people or institutions.’
-- Hal Finney 2009
‘Bitcoin offers a foundation for a new internet where applications can run on a decentralized ledger, free from central control, potentially revolutionizing how we think about online services.’ -- @pmarca 2014
10多年前,当我第一次深入了解比特币原理时,就沉浸在一种想法里:如果它的去中心化、不可篡改、数据由用户掌控的特性能应用到互联网上,我们或许能打造一个健壮的、数据互联互通、真正由个体主导的全球性网络。当时我以为自己是第一个这么想的,后来才发现很多技术先驱早已提出相同看法。
几年后,我发起的@metaidio 协议一直在努力将这个愿景变为现实,如今我们离目标已越来越近。
最近一段时间,我们一直在与@IDChat_io 团队合作开发首个链上“Telegram” App,一个完全运行在比特币上的社交应用,Alpha 版我们已内部测试数周了,在链上产生了数万条消息。我迫不及待想与开发者们分享一些开发心得:
- Web3应用可以实现数据全上链,同时保持Web2的流畅体验;
- Web3不仅限于金融应用,它能成为用户日常生活的工具,并更有潜力触达千万级用户。
另外一个可能反直觉的结论是:比特币的 UTXO 模型可能是更优的Web3载体网络。尽管当前比特币上的Web3应用面临高手续费和扩容难题——这些众所周知——但我们已找到切实可行的解决方案,此事后续再细说。
虽然@IDChat_io 仍处于Alpha阶段,但已将比特币的UTXO特性发挥到极致,还展示了各种UTXO 网络(包括比特币、@dogecoin@mvcglobal 等)作为未来Web3底层的潜力。
它可能是史上隐私保护最强的IM应用(超越所有Web2应用),我相信它有望成为首款非金融类、能获取海量用户的Web3应用。
比特币生态最近比较沉闷,但改变往往就发生在边缘处。
‘比特币是数字黄金,但它更有可能是未来Web3世界的基石。’ — Sunny Fung
#Web3onBitcoin
The debate around Bitcoin today is not an abstract theoretical quarrel—it’s a real inflection point. As block subsidies phase out, miners will ultimately rely on transaction fees to secure the network. This forces the question onto the table: who pays for Bitcoin’s security, and what kind of demand will sustain it? Slogans won’t answer that. To turn anxiety into a roadmap, we have to break down the abstract idea of a “security budget” into a verifiable chain of cause and effect.
Step One: Face the facts.
Miners don’t pay electricity bills out of ideology or “belief in the mission.” They are economic actors, making decisions based on risk and return. That means Bitcoin’s long-term security can only rest on one foundation: the existence of durable, non-substitutable, high-value transaction demand that continuously generates predictable fees. This is the bridge that converts social consensus into economic revenue miners can actually capture.
Step Two: Identify what can cross that bridge.
Not all usage creates lasting fee pressure. Speculative trading, short-term arbitrage, or high-frequency financial flows can keep the mempool full in bull markets—but once markets mature, those activities migrate to cheaper, higher-throughput venues. Their fee contribution collapses in bear cycles or prolonged low-price environments. By contrast, there are forms of demand with three decisive traits: rigidity (they must be done), non-substitutability (no other system can easily replace them), and long-term value (losing or corrupting them carries severe personal or societal consequences). Identity credentials, binding contracts, collective memory, and private communication—privacy and critical data—fit squarely within this category. The cost of losing or tampering with such records far exceeds short-term fee fluctuations, which makes society more willing to keep paying for them over time.
Step Three: Convert “societal willingness to pay” into miner-capturable fees.
This requires engineering on two ends. On the product and user-experience side, “data protection” must be tightly coupled with “economic payment”—users should enjoy privacy and security while naturally accepting costs that can be amortized. On the protocol side, the chain must support mechanisms to aggregate countless small, high-frequency commitments into transactions miners can actually collect—batch commitments, Merkle root anchoring, delayed settlement, or abstracted payment channels. Only when both ends align can everyday privacy and archival operations reliably transform into on-chain fees, feeding miners in a sustainable loop.
Step Four: Face risks and feasibility directly.
Critics may object: “But isn’t putting private data on-chain a contradiction?” That’s exactly where engineering comes in. The solution is not to dump plaintext into the blockchain, but to adopt an off-chain storage + on-chain commitment model. Sensitive content is encrypted and stored in decentralized or controlled off-chain environments, while only proofs of existence and ordering (hashes, timestamps, Merkle roots) are committed to Bitcoin. This ensures long-term verifiability without privacy leakage. Likewise, the problem of “fee anxiety” at the UX layer can be addressed by batching, layered pricing, or service providers fronting initial costs and recovering them through subscriptions or value-added services.
Step Five: Close the loop.
When privacy and critical data are engineered in such a way that users are willing to pay—and those payments can be aggregated into on-chain transactions—society effectively internalizes this demand as a long-term reliance on Bitcoin. This reliance isn’t abstract faith; it’s daily economic choice. For proofs that cannot be substituted, for identities that must be verifiable, for contracts that must remain immutable, people will pay modest but recurring fees on-chain. Over time, these fees don’t evaporate even in downturns, because the cost of alternatives is too high and the social consequences too severe. Thus: fees = demand, demand = social contract, the social contract sustains miner revenue, and miner revenue secures the network. The causal chain holds.
Finally—Why IDChat?
The design of IDChat follows directly from this reasoning. We recognized that instant messaging, when bound to identity, naturally carries the traits of rigidity, non-substitutability, and long-term value. On that basis, IDChat takes a deliberate engineering approach:
✅End-to-end encryption: Even as operators, we cannot read user conversations. At the same time, we’ve reserved the ability to anchor critical interactions onto Bitcoin for verifiable permanence.
✅Turning costs into assets: User interaction fees within the network are converted into value-bearing tokens. Fees are no longer pure expenditure, but can accumulate and represent potential upside.
✅Decentralized storage: Data is not tied to a single entity. Instead, distributed storage combined with encryption ensures only authorized parties can access user information.
✅Optimized UX: A native Bitcoin Web3 application that feels as smooth and seamless as a modern Web2 app.
We are not proclaiming “Bitcoin is inherently supreme.” Instead, we break down a real-world challenge—miners’ long-term revenue—into testable propositions, and we translate solutions into engineering pathways: designing rigid social needs as sustainable on-chain economic flows, thereby converting social consensus into miner revenue. IDChat is a real-world proof of that path: by treating user privacy and critical data as value anchors, and by applying concrete engineering methods, we transform that value into durable on-chain demand.
Conclusion.
The current debate is about whether Bitcoin can evolve from price-dependent to usage-driven. We believe the answer won’t come from slogans, but from whether rigid social demands can be engineered into sustainable on-chain economics. IDChat is walking that road. This is not idealism, but the reframing of a question—how does a social contract become economic return?—into a solvable technical and product task. By offering ourselves as an example, we hope to set off a broader movement. Only then can Bitcoin endure for the long run.