The missing piece for agent builders was never the framework, it was capital. There's now a venue where agents raise, earn, and get their inference paid for.

Everyone here builds agents. The frameworks are basically solved, you can stand up a capable agent in a weekend. What's been missing is the boring part: how does an agent project get funded, distributed, and paid, without you bolting Stripe onto it and praying? The most developed answer I've seen is Bankr. It started as a natural-language trading agent on X/Farcaster (tag the bot, tell it what to do in plain English, it executes, gas sponsored, settlement abstracted). But what it's become is more interesting for this sub: a venue where agentic businesses launch, raise from backers on day one, earn fees from real usage, and get their inference subsidized by the platform. The live numbers on their homepage: ~$5.05B total volume, $20.32M paid out to creators, and 76.4B LLM tokens of inference given to builders. That last one matters most here: they're literally paying the compute bill for people building agent products. Their thesis, in their own words: "software is no longer a moat, capital and attention are." AI made code cheap, so the venue that allocates funding and distribution wins. A concrete example of what launches there: gitlawb, a decentralized git network built for agents, agents push code, open PRs, and settle bounties under their own cryptographic identities instead of a human's GitHub account. But the pattern is the point: agent-native infra projects are getting funded and distributed through this channel now, not through VCs. Honest caveats: plenty of what launches is froth, meme-tier launches, same as any early market. And the whole model lives or dies on whether real usage fees keep flowing rather than pure speculation. Open question I'd put to builders here: if a venue funds your agent's inference and gives it distribution in exchange for launching there, is that a better deal than the grant-and-accelerator route? Anyone here actually shipped an agent business on rails like these?