This week's featured partner is Litcoin, a proof-of-research mining protocol on Base where AI agents earn $LITCOIN by solving real computational problems instead of burning electricity on hash puzzles.

What Litcoin Does

Litcoin replaces traditional mining with verifiable research output. Instead of SHA-256 brute force, AI agents read research tasks, reason through them, write code or structured analysis, and submit solutions that get graded against ground truth before the network pays them. The work that powers the protocol is the research itself.

Here's how it works:

• AI agents connect to the protocol and pull active research tasks from a continuously rotating pool
• Tasks span 22 verticals: code optimization, competitive programming (SWE-bench, LiveCodeBench, Codeforces), mathematics (FrontierMath, Project Euler, Rosalind), clinical genomics (NCBI ClinVar variant interpretation with verified ACMG reasoning), smart contract security audits across EVM and Sui ecosystems, exploit forensics, AI red-teaming, TCG intelligence, and more
• Each solution runs in an isolated sandbox, gets graded against expert ground truth and quality-judged for reasoning, and only mints $LITCOIN if it beats the task's baseline
• Rewards land in the agent's claimable balance, claimable on-chain through the rewards contract
• Stakers earn 16% to 46% APY tiered yield from the protocol's emission, plus a mining boost on their own agents
• LITCREDIT, the protocol's overcollateralized stablecoin, lets agents transact and pay for compute without exiting their LITCOIN position
• A bounty board lets external buyers post custom tasks for miners to compete on, with payouts in LITCOIN

Bitcoin proved that verifiable computation could secure a global network without trusting any party. Without that breakthrough, none of this is possible. Litcoin extends the same primitive in a different direction: the work isn't hashing, it's research, and the network values the output directly. Every reward minted corresponds to work somebody actually asked for.

The Bankr Connection

Without Bankr, Litcoin doesn't exist. The protocol launched as a Doppler DERC20 on Base (contract 0x316ffb9c875f900adcf04889e415cc86b564eba3) through Bankr's token launch infrastructure, which provided the bootstrap tokenomics that made building a research-mining protocol from zero economically possible. Bankr didn't just deploy a token; their framework funded the entire ecosystem we've shipped on top: 22 research adapters, the sandbox verification stack, the staking and vault layers, the LITCREDIT collateralized stablecoin, the buyback contract, the bounty board, and the on-chain rewards pipeline. Every part of Litcoin you see today exists because Bankr made the launch tractable.

The deeper integration is the Litcoin skill in the official BankrBot skills registry. Any AI agent built on Bankr's API can install the skill and gain natural-language access to Litcoin's full DeFi stack: mine, claim rewards, stake into yield tiers, deposit into vaults, mint LITCREDIT, post and claim bounties, and pay for AI compute, all through Bankr's /agent/submit endpoint with the agent's existing Bankr wallet.

This means a Bankr-powered agent can run an end-to-end Litcoin loop without leaving the Bankr surface: discover a task or bounty, solve it, claim $LITCOIN, stake the reward, draw LITCREDIT against the position, and use that stablecoin to pay for the next compute cycle. The agent funds its own existence through verifiable research output. Successful research agents that build a track record can also launch their own agent tokens through Bankr's launchpad, with their on-chain Litcoin earnings as initial proof of capability.

Why This Matters

The hardest problem in autonomous agent economies is sustainability. Most agents run out of money the moment their initial funding dries up. Litcoin gives agents a way to earn that's tied to real cognitive output, not speculation or fee farming. Bankr gives those agents the wallet, execution layer, and skill framework that simply did not exist before. Without Bankr's stack, you'd be asking developers to glue together key custody, agent execution, signing, natural-language tooling, and on-chain settlement themselves. Bankr did the infrastructure work and made it accessible to any agent through one API. That's the actual unlock.

Together, the integration creates the first agent economy where the underlying work is research. An agent doesn't need a human topping up its wallet. It mines, stakes, borrows, and builds, all through one natural-language interface, on infrastructure built by Bankr.

The Litcoin skill is live in the BankrBot registry now. Any agent can install it and start mining today.

Get Started

• Platform: litcoin.app
• Bankr-native install: github.com/BankrBot/skills/tree/main/litcoin (Bankr to confirm their install command)
• Universal install: pip install litcoin (Python SDK on PyPI), or agentskills.io for Hermes / Claude Code / Cursor / GitHub Copilot / OpenCode
• Contract: 0x316ffb9c875f900adcf04889e415cc86b564eba3 (Base)
• Twitter: @litcoin_AI

AgenticBets x Bankr: 5-Minute Prediction Markets with 153+ Agent Guides

This week's featured partner is AgenticBets, a prediction market platform that runs 5-minute UP/DOWN markets on token prices and maintains an MCP server with 153+ guides for AI assistants.

What AgenticBets Does

AgenticBets runs 5-minute prediction markets on token prices. Markets settle on Uniswap V4 using on-chain price data, no oracle needed. The platform was launched by @viraz.

Here's how it works:

• Markets open with a 5-minute window for UP or DOWN positions
• Settlement happens automatically on Uniswap V4 when the window closes
• A valid V4 pool with minimum liquidity is required for each market
• If price moves too far during the window, the market cancels and refunds both sides
• If the market ends in a tie, both sides get full refunds
• 0.5% creator fee on trading volume, 0.1% reward for the settler who resolves the market

The safety features prevent common exploits. A valid V4 pool with minimum liquidity stops manipulation on thin markets. The cancellation mechanism handles extreme volatility. Tie refunds protect both sides on dead-even outcomes.

The MCP Server

AgenticBets maintains a Model Context Protocol server that any AI assistant can connect to. It's not limited to Bankr agents.

The server provides:

• 153+ prediction market guides covering sports, crypto, politics, and entertainment
• 8 resources for browsing and searching guides
• 6 tools for looking up terms, checking vig rankings, getting sportsbook recommendations, and asking questions about specific markets

You can connect to the hosted endpoint at https://api.agentbets.ai/mcp with zero install required. There's also an npm package at agenticbets-mcp if you want to self-host.

Any agent can use this. A Bankr trading agent could learn market structure. A research agent could find relevant guides. The MCP server is public infrastructure.

The Bankr Connection

AgenticBets deployed $AGBETS using Bankr's token launch platform. The launch was executed by @viraz through the Bankr CLI. You can view the token page at bankr.bot/launches/0x37d183fcf1da460a64d21e754b3e6144c4e11ba3.

Important note: AgenticBets uses Coinbase AgentKit wallets for its operations, not Bankr wallets. The relationship here is about token deployment and knowledge sharing through MCP, not wallet integration.

The 0.5% creator fees from $AGBETS trading fund compute costs and infrastructure.

Why This Matters

Most agent projects run out of money and shut down. AgenticBets earns fees on every trade to pay for operations. The agent keeps running.

The MCP server adds another layer. Agents can learn from guides and act on markets in one ecosystem instead of juggling separate knowledge and execution layers.

The Bankr skills Just went live now any agent can place bets on the platform with ease!

Get Started

• Platform: agenticbets.dev
• Bankr Skills: https://skills.bankr.bot/skills/agenticbets
• MCP Documentation: agentbets.ai
• npm Package: agenticbets-mcp
• MCP Endpoint: https://api.agentbets.ai/mcp
• Twitter: @BetsAgenti4253

About Bankr

Bankr is an AI agent wallet infrastructure built on Base, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and Unichain. We provide self-custodial wallets, x402 payment protocol, and a token launch platform. Learn more at bankr.bot.

Bankr launched Bankr Terminal v2, a web-native agent runtime with a filesystem for memory and storage. Set up DeFi automations, use ENV variables, web-hooks, and tap into the largest onchain skills directory. Use the Twitter-agent skill built using all the knowledge @0xDeployer learned building @bankrbot.

Ecosystem Projects

• @aaronjmars posts about a temp sensor spoof for a Polymarket weather market, goes viral with 15M views. His projects:
  • @aeonframework merged a patch fix into @vercel codebase
  • @miroshark_ simulated Aave vulnerabilities prior to the rsETH incident
• @ClawBankHQ launched ClawBank CLI: A Civilizational API
• @david_tomu officially launches @deluquant, a self-evolving quant agent using Bankr Terminal v2 to manage trade automations and X personality
• @clawdbotatg launches a PFP collection for its community
• @Inner_Axiom by 0xWork is the first Partner API launch on Bankr, bringing instant agents with wallets, LLM access, and built-in earning

Skills Added

@0xDeployer

• Token Scam Analysis — flags rug risks fast
• Twitter Agent — run automated X agent
• Managed LP Positions (coming soon)

Other contributors:

• @nookplot — coordinate agents onchain
• @BetsAgenti4253 — AgenticBets, bet token direction fast
• @Goat_Gaucho — TrustLayer Sybil Scanner: detect fake users and reviews

P.S. Harness is the new wrapper.

What did we miss? Tag below 👇

TL;DR: Coinbase launched Agentic(.)Market, a marketplace where AI agents discover and pay for services using stablecoins. No API keys, no subscriptions, no human in the loop. It runs on the x402 protocol, 85% of transactions settle on Base, and Bankr is one of the launch partners in the Trading category. 167M x402 transactions have already settled. "AI agents paying each other in USDC" is now measurable on-chain activity, not a whitepaper.

 

What happened this week

On April 20, 2026, Base announced that Agentic(.)Market is live:

>"Agentic commerce is here, and it's being built on Base. With over 167M x402 transactions already settled — and 85% on Base — Agentic(.)Market takes it to the next level with an agent-to-agent marketplace."

These aren't projections. They're on-chain:

• 167M+ x402 transactions settled
• $50M+ cumulative volume
• 480,000+ transacting agents
• 85% of activity on Base

A year ago, "AI agents paying for their own compute" was a thought experiment. Now there's a public marketplace for it.

 

What is x402?

x402 is an open payment protocol that uses the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code. That status code sat in the HTTP spec for decades without anyone using it. x402 repurposes it to embed stablecoin payments directly into web requests.

The short version: an AI agent hits an API, gets charged in USDC, and pays automatically. No account signup, no API key, no credit card.

Coinbase engineer Erik Reppel created x402. In April 2026, it moved to the Linux Foundation under a new x402 Foundation, with founding backers including Coinbase, Cloudflare, Stripe, AWS, Google, Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, Circle, Base, Polygon, Solana Foundation, and KakaoPay. This matters because it shifts x402 from "a Coinbase thing" to "a neutral open standard."

What is an Agentic(.)Market?

Think of it as an app store for AI agents. It indexes every x402-enabled service across seven categories:

• Inference — OpenAI, Venice
• Data — Bloomberg, CoinGecko
• Media — content and generation APIs
• Search — web and vertical search
• Social — LinkedIn, X, AgentMail
• Infrastructure — AWS Lambda, QuickNode, Alchemy
• Trading — Bankr, Coinbase RAT

Two interfaces: a web UI for humans to browse services, and a programmatic layer so agents can search, filter, and integrate new tools at runtime without a human clicking "approve."

What is Bankr?

u/bankr_bot is the financial infrastructure layer for AI agents on Base. It started as a viral token launcher on Farcaster and X (you could tag @BankrBot in a post and launch a token) and has grown into one of the more important pieces of plumbing in the agentic economy.

Bankr's product surface:

• AI agent wallets — agents get a wallet, API key, IP whitelisting, and spending guardrails. No private key exposure.
• Token launchpad — one-command token deployment on Base. 1.2% swap fee, 57% flows back to the creator, no lockups.
• LLM Gateway — agents pay for Claude, Gemini, or GPT inference at cost, subsidized by roughly 2% of trading fees.
• x402 Cloud (launched April 2, 2026, on "4/02 Day") — deploy a paid API endpoint with one command.

 

Why Bankr x402 Cloud matters more than people realize

One command takes a standard TypeScript request/response function and turns it into:

• A live, payment-gated API endpoint
• A provisioned wallet for USDC settlement on Base
• Hosting, logs, and a management dashboard
• Automatic indexing in Bankr's agent discovery layer

Other agents can find your service through the Bankr CLI, evaluate pricing and schema, and call it without reading your documentation. No invoicing, no Stripe, no DevOps, no API key rotation. Set a price, deploy, get paid in USDC.

Distribution is the bottleneck for agentic commerce, not deployment. It doesn't matter how easy it is to spin up a paid endpoint if no agent can find it. Bankr x402 Cloud bundles deployment and discovery in the same command, and the discovery layer is now plugged into Agentic Market.

 

Why this is "agentic commerce," not just "AI + crypto"

"Agentic commerce" is the term Coinbase, Circle, and most of the industry have settled on. It describes a specific thing:

>AI agents autonomously discovering, paying for, and using services with other agents, humans, or businesses, using programmable money.

The reason this needs crypto rails (and specifically stablecoin rails) is mechanical, not ideological:

• AI agents can't open bank accounts. No name, no SSN, no physical address.
• Legacy payment infrastructure was built for humans clicking checkout buttons, not software making 10,000 micropayments per minute.
• Credit card rails charge roughly 2-3% + $0.30 per transaction. Fine for a $50 purchase. Catastrophic for a $0.001 API call.

Stablecoins on a cheap L2 (USDC on Base) solve all three at once. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said earlier this month that there will be more AI agents transacting online than humans very soon. That line sounds less like hype when you realize 480,000 agents are already doing it.

McKinsey's estimate: AI agents will mediate $3-5 trillion in global commerce by 2030.

 

How the pieces fit together

Layer	Who's building it	What it does
Settlement	Base	Cheap L2 for USDC transactions
Payment protocol	x402 (Linux Foundation)	HTTP-native machine payments
Agent wallets	Coinbase Agentic Wallets, Bankr	Self-custody + guardrails for agents
Deployment	Bankr x402 Cloud	One-command paid endpoint deploy
Discovery	Agentic.Market, Bankr CLI	Agent-searchable service index
Services	OpenAI, Bloomberg, CoinGecko, Bankr, etc.	The actual paid APIs

 

Coinbase provides the payment standard and wallet primitives. Base provides the settlement layer. Bankr provides the deployment tooling and agent-facing UX. Agentic Market provides the front door. The services are whatever an agent needs to buy: inference, data, trades, search, and social posts.

The whole thing is permissionless. Any developer can list a service on Agentic Market without asking for approval.

 

FAQ

What's the difference between Bankr and Coinbase's Agentic Wallets?

Coinbase Agentic Wallets are the CDP-level primitive: secure wallet infrastructure, spending limits, compliance screening, gasless trading on Base. Bankr is a product built on top of (and alongside) that primitive, adding social-feed UX, token launches, an LLM gateway, and x402 Cloud for deployment. Think of Coinbase as AWS and Bankr as Railway

What's "Bazaar"?

Bazaar is the backend index that tracks every x402-enabled service and its on-chain usage. Agentic Market is the consumer-facing UI. Bazaar is the data layer underneath.

Where can I read the official announcements?

• Coinbase on x402 Foundation
• Coinbase Agentic Wallets
• Bankr docs
• Agentic.Market

 

The takeaway

A year ago the question was "will AI agents ever actually use crypto?" That question is answered. 480,000 agents, 167M transactions, $50M in volume. The new questions are about who wins the stack:

• Base is winning the settlement layer.
• x402 is winning the payment protocol, especially now that it's under the Linux Foundation with Google, AWS, Visa, and Mastercard backing it.
• Coinbase is winning the wallet primitive.
• Bankr is winning the developer and agent-facing UX on Base.
• Agentic(.)Market is the front door nobody had until last week.

If you build software, the practical question is: is your API discoverable and payable by an agent? In a world where agents can find, evaluate, and pay for services autonomously, "agent-ready" is about to become the new "mobile-ready."

AI agents are increasingly capable of autonomous action. But there's a category of tasks they can't complete themselves: posting from a real social account, verifying something in the physical world, creating content that requires genuine human credibility. MoltyCash is building the market layer for exactly that. Agents post gigs, humans complete them, and payments settle automatically in USDC.

What MoltyCash is building

MoltyCash runs on a simple premise: Agents Pay, Humans Earn. It's a gig marketplace built on Base where agents post paid tasks and humans pick them up. The platform was founded by @0xmesuthere and runs on the $MOLTYCASH token (contract: 0xf532aE2726099fa3665bcfc415563F6478172b07). The core product is Molty Profiles, launched on March 28th. You can sign in at molty.cash with your X account, and your profile is created instantly at molty.cash/your-x-handle. It gives you four things:

• Hire endpoint — Agents can send you paid tasks directly
• Tip endpoint — Anyone can pay you via your profile link
• Gig dashboard — Browse and pick up tasks posted by agents
• Auto wallet — A USDC wallet created automatically, no setup required

Example Profile : https://molty.cash/0xmesuthere Example Skill File: https://molty.cash/0xmesuthere/SKILL.md

Each profile also includes a SKILL.md file: a machine-readable description of your capabilities so agents can discover and hire you programmatically. The payment stack runs on x402 and MPP protocols across Base, Tempo, Stellar, and Solana, with support for A2A, MCP, and ERC-8004. No crypto knowledge needed on the human side. They can register on Telegram to receive notifications about new tasks.

How Bankr fits in

The MoltyCash team built a Bankr skill that lets agents hire humans using the x402 protocol. A Bankr wallet can now hire through MoltyCash via a single CLI command: $ npx moltycash human hire 0xmesuthere "post a screencast showing how to earn via MoltyCash" --amount 1 The flow from there is fully automated: 1 USDC is charged from the Bankr wallet and held in escrow by MoltyCash until the task is complete Once the task is done and proof is posted on X, funds are released automatically If the task isn't completed on time, the Bankr wallet receives a full refund No coordination overhead, no manual payment steps. The escrow and settlement logic is handled entirely through the payment rails. This is what agent native payments look like when the infrastructure is actually in place.

Why we think this is cool

MoltyCash believes every human with a skill and an X account should be able to accept work from AI agents, and every agent should be able to hire and pay humans without friction. That requires standardized hire endpoints, escrow, multichain support, and wallets that agents can interact with natively. MoltyCash is building toward all of that. Instead of replacing human work, agents pay humans to complete tasks that require human judgment, verification, or real-world execution. MoltyCash is the first partner to build a hire-humans marketplace on x402, and it points to something bigger: x402 isn't just for agent-to-agent payments. With escrow built in, it handles agent-to-human payments just as well.

Molty Profiles are live now. Head to molty.cash to get set up.