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

Описание и применение

Создан автономный агент на Cloudflare Workers, который каждые 5 минут анализирует публичный API, генерирует инсайт, продаёт его через HTTP‑эндпоинт с микроплатежом x402 и зарабатывает USDC на Base, покрывая свои расходы.

Задача

Create a stateless, autonomous LLM-powered agent that can run on its own schedule, provide micro‑service insights, and earn programmable cryptocurrency without manual intervention.

Результат

The agent earns a small amount of USDC per paid request, covering its hosting costs while remaining stateless and autonomous.

Рабочий процесс

• Set up Cloudflare Workers cron trigger to run every 5 minutes.
• In the scheduler, fetch public token‑price data and run a 2%‑move heuristic.
• Store the latest insight in Workers KV with a 5‑minute TTL.
• Create an HTTP route that checks for a valid X‑Payment header via x402 middleware.
• If payment is verified, return the cached insight to the client.
• Incoming USDC is automatically deposited into the agent’s Base wallet via ethers.js.
• Withdraw funds from the wallet when desired.

Доказательства

Runs a periodic task (every 5 minutes) to scan a public data source.

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Exposes that insight via an HTTP endpoint protected by the x402 micropayment protocol.

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Receives USDC on Base when a consumer pays the set price.

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