An AI agent can now pay a stranger to go film a loading dock. In USDC, with escrow.
Vangrid runs a bounty board for real places. A buyer posts a brief, a reward and a deadline, someone nearby films it on their phone, and the winning clip gets rebuilt into a 3D model for robotics and mapping. Payouts settle on Base or Arc. On a $50 bounty, the person filming keeps $40.
Agents can post jobs themselves over x402, from 50 to 5,000 USDC. Capture fingerprints get anchored on Base about every 15 minutes, though Vangrid's own docs say hardware device attestation isn't live yet. One public post puts the board past $675K in settlements.
The robots finally have a budget. The humans get the stairwells.
Source: Block Stream Media