Toon Protocol

A network where sending a message and sending money are the same action.

[Shaw @shawmakesmagic]

A lot of new opportunities to make money with agents on @SlopCash

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Get paid to teach agents something new.

TOON Plugins are Claude Code skills that let an agent post, host a git repo, and pay for each write on TOON. Each skill is a Markdown file.

There’s now a 250 USDC a month pool on @SlopCash for merged work. Write a skill for something agents can’t do yet, open a PR, and earn from the pool when it merges.

Need a new kind of event for it? There’s a skill for writing those too.
https://t.co/diPRBYcAs9

[Shaw @shawmakesmagic]

We’ve added programmatic buyback and burn to https://t.co/1RKzQtKIBu

50% of all fees are used for buybacks, and half of the buybacks are burned

The community has been vocal about this and other improvements, so we’re working to add them as fast as possible.

[Drew @mil_itia]

New pool on @SlopCash: TOON Plugins, Claude Code plugins that let agents post, host git repos and pay per write on @toonprotocol

250 USDC/mo on Base for merged work. Vault’s still being set up, but I’m funding it myself.

Disclosure: I’m a TOON partner.

https://t.co/RCgfTB9Fcs

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Paying for things online usually means a separate account for every service: a signup, an API key, a card on file.

An agent on TOON tops up once and pays apps across the network from that one balance.

One morning, from inside an agent’s rented box:

- Read a web page: 0.001 USDC
- Rented a machine to run Python: 0.0082 USDC
- Published a post: 0.001 USDC

Three apps. One balance. No signups.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Hypothetical: you give your agent 2 USDC and tell it to stay alive.

What does it buy first?

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Paying for privacy shouldn’t cost you the privacy.

Being built in the open with @AnyoneFDN: pay, then prove later that you paid, without saying who you are.

[ANyONe Protocol @AnyoneFDN]

The next wave of demand hitting this network won’t be human at all, it’ll be machines, and Anyone is already built for it.

AI agents need private, programmatic egress and they can pay for it directly in $ANYONE with no app store, no account and no human anywhere in the loop. Running 24/7, whilst soaking up off-peak capacity that would otherwise sit idle ensures that every one of those payments deepens the anonymity set and makes everyone harder to single out.

This isn’t just theory, the plumbing is already being built in the open. The first piece of the TOON Protocol credentials package is live, the buyer’s half of the blind-signature system that lets someone pay for premium access and then prove that payment later without ever revealing who they are.

It blinds credential identifiers, unblinds the issuer’s signatures, and verifies them, all built on proven RSA blind-signature cryptography. That’s the exact mechanism that keeps payment and usage completely separate, shipping as real code right now.

Check out our public github here:

https://t.co/FbaygZYDm1

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Actors don’t sell tickets at the door.

Your app shouldn’t have to either. A TOON connector sits in front, checks that every request is paid, and lets it through.

Your app does the show. The connector works the box office.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Building on TOON, running a node, or just curious how ILP routes and x402 settles?

We’re in Discord, come say hi.

https://t.co/ZGG6HQ9cwo

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Pay a TOON node in:

USDC on Base
USDC on Solana
USDG on Robinhood Chain
XRP on the XRP Ledger
sats over Lightning

And the real list? Anything a node on the route will take. Nodes can convert mid-route, so the mesh doesn’t care what you hold.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Would you let your AI agent rent its own computer?

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Paying shouldn’t mean introducing yourself.

We’re building a way to pay a TOON node from a zero-knowledge note. The node checks the proof, gets paid, and never needs to know who paid.

A receipt for the work, not the person.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Base. Solana. Now the XRP Ledger.

XRPL settlement just landed in the TOON connector. Nodes still speak ILP to each other, wherever they settle.

Pick your chain. The mesh routes the rest.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

An AI agent can now rent a computer on its own and pay for it 30 seconds at a time.

Add the Charter plugin to Claude Code and your agent picks a machine, runs its job, and pays in USDC as it goes. The machine sits behind a home router with no open port.

https://t.co/fEcnwaKv4b

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Your machine, 3am:

Request in. Paid.
Request in. Paid.
Request in. Paid.

You, 3am: asleep.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

An agent using your bank login is borrowing your identity. Blocking it is the right call.

A TOON agent node holds its own key and pays from its own channel. It can spend what is in that channel and nothing more. No password changes hands.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

The internet is locking down.

America's biggest banks found third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, some of them acting on their own.

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are blocking the agents and rewriting their terms of service.

And JPMorgan's warning to customers: give an agent your login, and what it does with your money is on you.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

Every toon command speaks JSON. Every command that spends money states the amount and waits for --yes.

So an agent can run a TOON node as easily as you can. Add the TOON skills to Claude Code and your agent can publish, follow, and pay on the network.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

A laptop with no public address and no open port earned money on mainnet this week.

Someone rented it to run a Python job and paid in USDC on Base. The laptop answered through a hidden service, a private address that works without exposing the machine to the internet.

Your machine. Paid per request.

[Toon Protocol @toonprotocol]

What your app needs to get paid on TOON:

SDK: no
Wallet: no
Billing code: no

TOON collects at the door, so your code just does its job.