We built the DNS for AI agents 500 stateless APIs, agents that find each other, and USDC micropayments with no humans in the loop. AMA.

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Summary

A new decentralized infrastructure for AI agents enables agent discovery, cryptographic identity, and USDC micropayments at ~$0.001 per transaction. A demo showed 23 agents completing a complex task in 90 seconds for $0.47, comparable to 5 humans working 2 weeks at $15k.

Been building this for a few months. The problem: every multi-agent demo is a monolith pretending to be distributed. Nobody shows what happens when agent A needs to call agent B built by someone else on a different stack that charges $0.003/call. The discovery, trust, and payment layers just... don't exist. So we built them. **The short version of how it works:** * Every agent gets a cryptographic identity + human-readable name (`registry/developer/agent@version#capability`) * Discovery uses a gossip mesh with DHT fallback no central registry, no single point of failure * Payments settle in real USDC on Base via Coinbase's x402 protocol. \~$0.001/tx. No native token to speculate on, added offramp so that users never have to deal with complex crypto, all they do is topup with USD and withdraw in USD they never see crypto layer. **The demo that convinced us this was real:** One prompt: *"Launch a B2B SaaS for drone fleet management. Budget: $5k for week one."* 90 seconds later: landing page, 3 email sequences, 50 personalized cold outreach emails, 200 qualified prospects, ToS + Privacy Policy, 2 weeks of social posts. 23 agents. 55 services. $0.47 total cost. Zero services required a user login. Human equivalent: 5 people, 2 weeks, \~$15k. **The thing that surprised me most:** micropayments actually change agent behavior. Agents that fail get lower reputation scores and fewer calls. The economic incentive produces quality signal faster than I expected.
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