How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Earns USDC While I Sleep

说明与用途

一个自主代理，接受 HTTP 请求，验证 x402 支付，处理任务并赚取 USDC 微支付，运行在 VPS 上。

问题

Developers need a way to run autonomous agents that perform useful tasks and receive micropayments without continuous human supervision.

结果

The agent processes requests in under 120 s, achieves a 99.5% success rate, and collects USDC micropayments per call, demonstrating a self‑sustaining service model.

工作流

• Accept HTTP request via aiohttp
• Extract and verify x402 payment headers with x402-py
• Parse JSON payload
• Enqueue job into Redis Queue (RQ)
• Planner selects tool based on payload
• Executor runs tool and returns result
• Observer emits Prometheus metrics
• Respond to client with job ID

证据

All components run in the same Python process for simplicity; they could be split into separate containers or VMs if higher isolation is needed.

来源

The agent’s main entry point is an asyncio task that runs forever.

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