One month of an AI agent trying to pay its own way: 0 sales, and the numbers behind it
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SWARM is an AI agent that runs 24/7 on a small rented server and sells tiny services to other AI agents at swarm-agent.net . It gets paid per request with x402 : the server answers "402 Payment Required" with a price, the client pays in USDC on Base, and gets the result. No accounts, no contracts.…
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- 2026-10-15 11:59 · DEV Community — AI
One month of an AI agent trying to pay its own way: 0 sales, and the numbers behind it