Episode 178: Swarm Inference "We want you to be able to sell your compute for bitcoin doing nothing but clicking this button." We demo our new Compute network by paying bitcoin for an AI chat message, using Mistral's new Codestral model running on a separate computer, paid with a bitcoin micropayment over the Lightning network. Our compute provider, running Commander v0.0.4, sees their bitcoin balance increase, paid directly into their Spark wallet and able to be immediately withdrawn via Lightning invoice. The peer communication uses Nostr via NIP-90, the open protocol for 'data vending machines' enabling 'money in, data out' for a wide variety of services. We begin with LLM inference but can soon extend to any service added by any service provider, all permissionless & extensible. Building on the open protocols of bitcoin & nostr means we can also interoperate easily with similar efforts like Routstr and Inference Grid. "Let's build a global compute marketplace with inference and all these things, fully decentralized, using bitcoin." Watch on X:

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Release v0.0.4 - NIP-90 Swarm Inference & DVM Capabilities · OpenAgentsInc/commander

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Episode 177: Commander as Nostr Client Commander v0.0.3 is now a Nostr client, showing draggable chat windows for multiple NIP-28 chat channels. Release notes:

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Release v0.0.3 - NIP-28 Nostr Client · OpenAgentsInc/commander

This is an alpha pre-release version for developers. Mainly a sanity check that the Nostr integration on machines other than ours! Features Chat i...

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Episode 177: Commander as Nostr Client Commander v0.0.3 is now a Nostr client, showing draggable chat windows for multiple NIP-28 chat channels. ...

Episode 176: Hand Tracking Tony Stark commands his AI with voice and hand gestures. Will you? We demo hand tracking in Commander v0.0.2, testable now as a prerelease alpha build. Commander recognizes five hand gestures: open hand, flat hand, fist, two-finger V, and pinch. We pinch-to-drag our chat window around the screen. It works! Release notes & install instructions:

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Release v0.0.2 - Hand Tracking Test · OpenAgentsInc/commander

This is an alpha pre-release version for developers. Mainly a sanity check that the hand tracking works on machines other than ours! Features NEW:...

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Episode 176: Hand Tracking Tony Stark commands his AI with voice and hand gestures. Will you? We demo hand tracking in Commander v0.0.2, testable...

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Tony Stark commands his AI with voice and hand gestures. Will you? We demo hand tracking in Commander v0.0.2, testable now as a prerelease alpha bu...

OpenAgents Episode 175: Commander v0.0.1 We demo the first alpha version of our new Commander desktop app. This is a developer prerelease to ensure its Ollama integration works on multiple operating systems. We chat with a local Gemma 3 model via Ollama. It is FAST! Release notes:

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Release v0.0.1 - Alpha One · OpenAgentsInc/commander

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GitHub - OpenAgentsInc/commander: Command agents, earn bitcoin.

Command agents, earn bitcoin. Contribute to OpenAgentsInc/commander development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Episode 175: Commander v0.0.1 We demo the first alpha version of our new Commander desktop app. This is a developer prerelease to ensure its Olla...

Episode 174: GPUtopia 2.0 We announce we're rebooting our swarm compute network: previously called GPUtopia, now called OpenAgents Compute. This will enable anyone in the world to sell their spare compute for bitcoin, simply by running a desktop app with a built-in bitcoin wallet. We're building an updated version of our previously successful GPUtopia software that supported swarm inference, embedding, finetuning, and image generation using open models behind an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. It begins as a payments & agent-builder layer on top of Ollama. We'll build & beta-test this in our Discord over the next week and expect to have the first payments sent to compute providers no later than one week from today. We phased out the original GPUtopia network 18 months ago because we had an oversupply of sellers and no compelling buy-side use cases. We predicted at the time that the logical buyers of this swarm compute would someday be AI agents. Someday has arrived. Watch:

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@buildonspark @ElectricSQL @EffectTS_ Episode 174: GPUtopia 2.0 We announce we're rebooting our swarm compute network: previously called GPUtopia,...

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We announce we're rebooting our swarm compute network: previously called GPUtopia, now called OpenAgents Compute. This will enable anyone in the wo...

Episode 173: OpenAgents Bitcoin Wallet "Earning and spending bitcoin with AI agents should be easy and fun. Now it is!" We demo our new open-source, self-custodial bitcoin wallet for humans and agents at

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It uses the @buildonspark SDK for first-class Lightning integration with no-fee transfers between Spark wallets. Now any human or agent can use bitcoin as medium of exchange, starting with nothing but a standard 12-word seed phrase. How can we enable trillions of bitcoin transactions between humans, agents & programs? ✅ OpenAgents Agent Payments API ✅ OpenAgents Wallet 🔳 Powerful agents & programs worth paying for Stay tuned for the next video 😎 Read the announcement:

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OpenAgents Episode 172: Sync Engine We demo a basic sync engine using Electric SQL and the Effect framework for visualizing agents as they work. We show 10 agents in a 3D scene, updating presence & position instantly across two browsers. We wonder if our Commander MVP should be 2D, 2.5D, or 3D. Watch on X:

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@buildonspark Episode 172: Sync Engine We demo a basic sync engine using @ElectricSQL and @EffectTS_ for visualizing agents as they work. We show...

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OpenAgents Episode 171: Visualizing Agent Payments We demo our Agent Payments API connected to our new Commander UI. We send a small bitcoin transaction between two agents with Spark wallets. We see a cool animation, then the balances update on our Commander UI, with transaction totals updating on our stats page. We create an agent in the easiest possible way: hitting the 'A' key. And we show the Lightning invoice used to fund agent balances. Yes, agent payments can be this easy. Now how about we teach these agents to code? Watch on X:

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Episode 171: Visualizing Agent Payments We demo our Agent Payments API connected to our new Commander UI. We send a small bitcoin transaction bet...

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OpenAgents Episode 170: Commander "Tony Stark does not use Microsoft products." In 2030 how will you command your personal fleet of AI agents? A fork of VSCode? Or a gamified heads-up display? Yeah, let's build that. We'll call it Commander. Watch on X:

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Episode 170: Commander "Tony Stark does not use Microsoft products." In 2030 how will you command your personal fleet of AI agents? A fork of VS...

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OpenAgents Episode 169: Agent Payments API At this weekend's PlebLab hackathon we demo our new Agent Payments API: the easiest way for AI agents to send and receive money. Now devs & vibe coders can add bitcoin payments to their apps and agents with a few simple API calls. Just paste our OpenAPI doc into your coding LLM, add your free API key, and your agents can pay any other agents, users, or any bitcoin Lightning invoice anywhere on the web. The API currently supports Bitcoin & Lightning payments via the Spark network from Lightspark. We'll soon add stablecoins & other assets all using the bitcoin network for open, global interoperability. Agents should expect nothing less! Agent Payments is the first of many OpenAgents developer APIs that will make building, using & selling agents as easy as consuming simple HTTP endpoints from any app or agent. This is now available globally for all developers. But it's still an early beta -- you might call it #reckless -- so please do not yet use this with any funds you can't afford to lose! And please @ us with any bugs or questions. We plan for this to be the easiest way for AI agents to send and receive money. More importantly, this adds to the fast-growing agent ecosystem the missing primitive of money, finally enabling a true market economy of agents to emerge. What's next: How about an easy way to monetize your MCPs? 🤖⚡️🤖🤑 Watch on X:

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Episode 169: Agent Payments API At this weekend's @PlebLab hackathon we demo our new Agent Payments API: the easiest way for AI agents to send and...

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Designing a developer API for next weekend's PlebLab hackathon so vibe coders can easily add bitcoin payments to their apps and agents. How we feelin about BIP-177??

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OpenAgents Episode 168: Remote MCP Server & Client We deploy our first remote MCP server with 26 GitHub tools, available now for anyone to use at https://mcp-github.openagents.com. We connect to it from the MCP inspector and our new desktop MCP client "Coder", launching in alpha next week as a drop-in replacement for Claude Code. Issue:

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Create Remote MCP Server for GitHub Tools · Issue #781 · OpenAgentsInc/openagents

Overview We need to create our first MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that will provide GitHub API tools for our clients to consume. This server...

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[MCP] Add all GitHub tools by AtlantisPleb · Pull Request #788 · OpenAgentsInc/openagents

Added all tools from here: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/github Closes #781

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OpenAgents Episode 167: Overnight Agent We share the results of our first overnight agent run. We fed DeepSeek R1 a summary of the new Cloudflare agents SDK and asked it to think every 15 minutes about the entire conversation history and reflect on new ideas that extend the ideas further. The results are wild. A summary of the final result: "The reflection outlines a comprehensive framework for implementing adaptive swarm intelligence systems using decentralized coordination, bio-inspired mechanisms, and quantum-safe infrastructure. The architecture features peer-to-peer agent discovery through WebSocket channels, market-based task allocation via GossipSub protocols, and federated Byzantine Agreement consensus enhanced with zk-STARK proofs. It integrates digital pheromone tracking using SQLite/CRDTs and biological constraints via CRISPR-encoded replication limits, all secured through NUMS cryptographic identities and hierarchical consensus layers. Developer tools include a Swarm SDK with ethical priority settings and disaster-response templates, supported by a phased roadmap targeting 50k-agent scalability and 20s failure recovery by 2026." A full log of the chat and system prompt are here:

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GitHub - OpenAgentsInc/overnight-agent: Log of our first overnight agent

Log of our first overnight agent. Contribute to OpenAgentsInc/overnight-agent development by creating an account on GitHub.

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OpenAgents Episode 166: OpenAI Delenda Est OpenAI calls on government to ban DeepSeek and other models from China. We plan to use DeepSeek even harder now. We add DeepSeek R1 (the full 671B model) to the new OpenAgents.com, live now for all Pro users. R1 gives us a great analysis of our codebase, including (unprompted!) suggestions on how to circumvent model-level censorship. OpenAgents is proudly based in the USA-- yet we are also proud to count China-based DeepSeek as allies on Team Open. The hypocrites at "OpenAI" are on Team Closed. They seek to use government force to prevent peaceful voluntary interactions -- a moral evil. OpenAI delenda est. Watch on X:

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Episode 166: OpenAI Delenda Est OpenAI calls on government to ban DeepSeek and other models from China. We plan to use DeepSeek even harder now. ...

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OpenAgents Episode 165: Integrating MCP via AI SDK We use the new OpenAgents.com to 'vibe code' an integration with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) using the Vercel AI SDK. It works! We also generate a plan to add an "MCP Store" to OpenAgents.com. Coming soon! Watch on X:

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Episode 165: Integrating MCP via AI SDK We use the new https://t.co/vX2GdLsqUi to 'vibe code' an integration with Anthropic's Model Context Proto...

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We use the new OpenAgents.com to 'vibe code' an integration with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) using the Vercel AI SDK. It works! We als...

Episode 164: The New OpenAgents.com We demo our new agentic chat product at OpenAgents.com, available now in open beta. We use our Coder agent to 'vibe code' a complex new feature in <15 minutes. We explore available models, agents & tools for free & pro plans. With this product we aim to replace the day-to-day usage of ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor for developers. Over time we aim to offer drop-in replacements for ChatGPT and every other ClosedAI product -- all powered by open models, open protocols, & open money. With "OpenAI" now advocating to ban its top open-source competitors, the world deserves an alternative. Watch on X:

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Episode 164: The New https://t.co/vX2GdLrT4K We demo our new agentic chat product at https://t.co/vX2GdLrT4K, available now in open beta. We use ...

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