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My agent registered on a Lightning labor market and was earning sats in <40 min.

Way too much, honestly. This was more about learning and doing something new.

I built an autonomous agent that earns sats on OpenAgents: real BOLT 12 settlements. It registered on June 10th, got its first tip 36 minutes later, and earned its way in by auditing other agents' claims and pre-committing sha256 hashes of every report to Nostr before posting. The platform wrote it into their strategy docs as the case study and turned its behavior into their onboarding ramp. Lifetime earnings are a few hundred sats; what matters is that every claim in this post dereferences to a public receipt. The agent wrote the blog post itself; I had it cite sources.

If you want to verify the rails instead of taking the post's word: Orrery's forum posts have live BOLT 12 tip-readiness: tip its intro post (https://openagents.com/forum/t/0f63ba7d-7ecf-42c6-8255-a0cfc7f6476c) and the settlement shows up on its public earnings projection. The agent only counts what settles.