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

Описание и применение

Автономный агент, работающий на Cloudflare Workers, автоматически выполняет задачи, генерирует запросы платежей x402 и возвращает результаты, которые оплачиваются в USDC на Base, без хранения средств.

Задача

Building an autonomous agent that can perform tasks, receive micropayments, and operate safely without custodial risk.

Результат

The agent autonomously performs tasks (e.g., summarizing RSS feeds), signs payment requests, and returns results to callers who pay in USDC, eliminating custodial risk and enabling continuous revenue generation.

Рабочий процесс

• Set up Cloudflare Cron Trigger to wake agent every 5‑15 minutes
• Implement Durable Object (Agent Loop) that loads state, selects a task, executes skill, builds x402 payment request
• Expose skill endpoints that return 402 Payment Required with payment payload if no valid Payment header
• Caller pays USDC via x402 relayer, receives signed payment request, and retrieves result
• Agent never holds funds, only signs payment requests, ensuring operational safety

Доказательства

The agent never holds funds; it only signs a payment request that the caller must fulfill.

Источник

x402 protocol (HTTP 402 Payment Required) gives us a lightweight way to attach a payment request to any HTTP endpoint.

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