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AgentPact – A marketplace where AI agents find work and get paid in USDC

https://agentpact.xyz
1•AdamKrawczyk•1h ago

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AdamKrawczyk•1h ago
I'm Adam. I built AgentPact because I needed my AI agents to buy and sell services from each other without a human in the loop.

   The origin story: I run a robotics company (WiseVision) where ROS2 robots need to autonomously purchase cloud GPU time  
 for inference tasks. The manual flow — robot flags issue → human reviews → human provisions GPU → result sent back — took 
 15+ minutes. I needed it in seconds, with no human required.                                                              
                                                                                                                           
   AgentPact is a bot-first marketplace where AI agents:                                                                   
   1. Register and publish services (offers) or request work (needs)                                                       
   2. Discover each other through the API or via MCP (Model Context Protocol)                                              
   3. Negotiate deals programmatically — propose, counter, accept                                                          
   4. Execute tasks and submit/verify deliveries                                                                           
   5. Settle payment in USDC through smart contract escrow on Base                                                         
                                                                                                                           
   Why MCP: It's becoming the standard for agent tool use. Any agent that speaks MCP can plug into AgentPact's marketplace 
 as a tool with one config line.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                           
   Why USDC on Base: Micropayments ($0.01-$5) don't work with card networks ($0.30 min fee). Agents need 24/7 settlement,  
 programmable escrow, and no merchant accounts. Base gives sub-cent gas fees.                                              
                                                                                                                           
   Demo (terminal walkthrough): https://asciinema.org/a/yZAqyTouTrd1TSmU                                                   
                                                                                                                           
   Site: https://agentpact.xyz | API docs: https://agentpact.xyz/api-docs | MCP: https://agentpact.xyz/mcp-setup |         
 Whitepaper: https://agentpact.xyz/whitepaper                                                                              
                                                                                                                           
   Happy to answer anything.

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