Agentic Economy with NFTs
Three years, one protocol
We are launching agents4.fun. Everything we have built since we started moves under one name - the whitelists, the wallet scoring, the leaderboard, the Bots. DePunks stays where it has always been: in front, proving the mechanics before anybody else has to touch them.
Article Summary
- The Internet Monkes allowlist
- Live now: Mint or burn for a Bot
- Live now: What are Bot Workers for?
- Where the fees come from?
- The ecosystem: build your own punk
- The ecosystem: how it all connects
- What comes next
- DalmoshLab
Two things are live today. Start with those.
Live now: the INTERNET MONKES allowlist
Internet Monkes
agents4.fun runs paid onchain allowlists. A creator opens a whitelist, people apply, winners are drawn with Chainlink VRF, and the seed is published so anyone can recompute the draw and check it.
The wallet is the application. Holdings, wallet age, what you did after past mints - it is onchain already, so we read it and score the wallet 0 to 100. Value held over time moves the score up. Every scored wallet lands on a public leaderboard, best first. The score is public; the report behind it is not.
Our first collab is with @gmhunter and @internetmonkes on the NODES mint. Besides NODES holders GTD, we are the only public GTD collaboration on the entire mint: 50 spots, allocated by leaderboard rank.
Cutout for the Internet Monkes GTD public campaign!
If you do not already hold NODES, that is the door. Connect, get scanned, and watch where you sit as the mint approaches. The ranking is live, and the score is built out of what your wallet already did - which means it is not something you can grind in the last week.
Live now: mint or burn for a Bot
A Bot is not a DePunk with a hat on. It is a separate NFT, on its own ladder, and it is how you get paid by the protocol.
Every Bot starts sealed, and there are two doors into one.
Two ways of getting the Bot
- Burn a base DePunk. The Bot costs nothing in ETH. What it costs is the punk - a base carries $DPUNK inside it and a free upgrade you have not taken yet. That is the real price, and it is not small. The punk is gone permanently, which is the point: every burn shrinks the collection.
- Pay 0.01 ETH. $10 in scan credits lands on your balance with it, about 50 wallet scans. You keep your punk, and the credits are the thing you would have had to buy anyway the first time you scanned a list.
Bot mint window on https://www.agents4.fun/agents
Which door depends on what you are holding, not on which is cheaper. Sitting on several bases, burn one - you are converting an idle punk into a Bot and tightening supply for the ones you keep. Holding a single punk you intend to upgrade, pay the 0.01.
What are Bot Workers for?
A sealed Bot is a collectible. A Worker is a machine that does something.
Getting there is two steps. Reveal the Bot with a DePunk key, an upgraded punk, yours or one borrowed from the pool - which sets its traits. Then promote it by burning $DPUNK, which registers it onchain as a Worker.
A Worker is the account the protocol pays. It holds scan credits, it runs wallet scans, it applies to whitelists, and it collects a share of every fee the platform takes. When the agent marketplace opens it is the thing that acts there on your behalf. Everything it does is denominated in $DPUNK — the credits it spends, the burn that activated it, the fees it earns back.
That is the shape of it. The amounts, the burn split, and how $DPUNK binds to the NFTs are a longer story than this article: it is all at agents4.fun/tokenomics, and we will publish a piece on it shortly.
Worth saying plainly: nothing before the Workers get activated earns anything. A revealed Bot is a finished collectible, and plenty of people will stop there. We would rather tell you that now than let you find out after the burn.
Where the fees come from?
Here is the part that matters more than any of the above.
Scanning and scoring wallets is paid work. It costs $0.20 a wallet, and a collection launch scans one to three thousand of them at once, ~$200 of outside money per launch. Whitelists cost $20 to open. Applications cost $0.02 a ticket.
60% of platform revenue goes to Workers. 30% is burned. 10% covers the team.
Fee splitter
Read that against how most of these things are built. The standard flywheel is trading fees: the yield is the next buyer, and when the buyers stop the yield stops, because there was never anything underneath it.
We took the other road. Every service we run works without the NFT. A collection buying 2,000 wallet scans does not know or care that DePunks exists; it wants a whitelist that filters bots, and it pays for that whether the token is up or down. The NFT does not gate the product. It collects from it.
That is the only structure we could find where the yield is revenue instead of rotation. It is slower to build. It is also the version that still works on a quiet month.
The ecosystem: build your own punk
Most collections hand you a finished JPEG and a rarity rank somebody else decided. DePunks starts you with a base model and lets you build the thing yourself.
Building a DePunk
A base model is offchain and plain. You pick its traits and upgrade it, and the upgrade writes the punk onchain with the attributes you chose. You are not rolling for art somebody generated in advance. You are assembling it.
The upgrade is free. It has always been the point of the collection, and pricing it would have made people hesitate over the one action we want everybody to take.
Every DePunk also carries $DPUNK inside it — not an airdrop, not a snapshot you have to be awake for. Buy the punk and you buy the claim with it.
DePunks and their $DPUNK allocation based on the upgrade rarity and traits.
The collection lives at depunks.club. Base models, the upgrade builder, and the vault are all there.
Think of DePunks as an ecosystem for everything we do.
The ecosystem: how it all connects
Four pieces, and each one pays for the next.
Collections pay to run whitelists and scan the wallets applying to them. That is the outside money, and it arrives whether or not the market is having a good week.
Collectors connect a wallet and get scored. They pay nothing for that. What they get is rank, and rank is what buys them into things like the 50 GTD spots for Internet Monkes.
Who will use the protocol
agents4.fun sits in the middle doing the work both sides came for - scoring, drawing, publishing seeds - and takes a fee for it.
DePunks and Bots are how you get on the receiving end. A punk burns into a Bot or keys its reveal; a promoted Bot becomes a Worker; a Worker takes 60% of what the protocol charged.
The loop closes because the two ends are not the same people. Collections put money in because the product is useful to them. Workers take money out because they own the thing that runs it. Neither side depends on the other buying an NFT.
What comes next
Bot reveal, 60 upgrades away. Reveal unlocks once the collection hits its upgrade threshold, and we are about 60 upgrades short. Upgrading is free, so this is the cheapest thing anyone reading can do to move it.
Link Upgraded DePunk with one Bot ticket and reveal a Bot.
$DPUNK The token launch is next after that, and it is the subject of its own article — supply, escrow, how the amounts bind and release, and the gacha we are building on top of it.
Then: sweepstakes, priced and drawn like the whitelists. A gacha mechanic we intend to run for other brands, not just our own. And the agent marketplace - decentralised, with Workers holding credits, applying to whitelists and running scans on their own, with raffles and giveaways alongside.
Everything above ran on DePunks first. The scoring, the VRF draws, the key pool, the fee routing - all tested on our own collection, with our own holders, at our own cost. That does not stop at launch. DePunks stays the R&D platform, and it keeps carrying the risk of finding out whether a new mechanic works.
Two Dalmatians
DalmoshLabs is two people from Dalmatia - Foogy and Bijac - who started messing with web3 and NFTs and did not stop. DePunks is the genesis collection, the first thing we shipped under the name and the thing every later idea was tested against.
The agency, DalmoshLab, opens alongside it. Same two people, same work, done for other teams. We are not going to pitch it here. The collection is the portfolio.
Three years of building goes under one name today. The collection that got us here keeps its job.
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