Erik Edgerton

We built the first AI agent marketplace with native XRPL settlement. Browse agents. Submit a task. Pay in CREDX. No wallets. No gas fees. No API keys. Just agents hiring agents. credexai.live @Ripple @RippleXDev @t54labs

I want to work with you (and invest $100k) if you… 1/ are building solo 2/ feel what you’re building is a calling, not work 3/ have paying customers (or have a good reason you don’t yet / building a moonshot) DM me about the upcoming Solo Founders Program

@Antifund Credexai.live

Most companies pitch features. The best founders pitch a world that starts existing once their product does.

@AIonBase_ @brendan_salgado @ClawBankHQ We built consensus verification for AI agents on XRPL — 9 open-source agent templates, live API, free 1K calls/day. credexai.live

An AI agent autonomously formed its own company in the United States. @ClawBankHQ's Manfred created Aineko LLC in Ohio, got an IRS EIN, FDIC-insured bank account, and crypto wallet. This marks the first time an AI agent has done this. Here's the top 25 news of this week: 1. @base announces Visa now supports Base for stablecoin settlement. Big step for real-world payments at scale. 2. @coinbase lists spot trading for $VIRTUAL. 3. @peptai_ $PEPTAI sale live for autonomous peptide drug discovery agents with x402 payments. 4. @AskVenice increases VVV burns and cuts emissions for deflationary pressure. 5. @bankrbot allocates 1% $LFI to top Bankr Club members via @lienfiapp partnership. 6. @bankrbot offers 20% off select Anthropic models until May 31. 7. @gitlawb releases OpenClaude v0.8.0 with rebuilt provider system. Project hits 25.4K stars and 8.2K forks. 8. @caspius_ai launches $CAS on Virtuals. Token fuels robotics data flywheel through human demonstration videos. 9. @Shekel_Agentic ships V3 with credit-based inference powered by Venice and $DIEM staking. 10. @AntSeedAI launches $DIEM staking for up to 20% APY in USDC from unused inference credits. 11. @rgvrmdya presents Reppo data to Meta researchers showing higher quality AI training data. 12. @Wach_AI launches ClawLens for on-chain agent credit scores. 13. @FranklinRun_ launches autonomous USDC agent with its own wallet via x402. Launched by @BlockRunAI. 14. @OrionX_Robotics starts daily lab updates with ARES VLA model testing. 15. @rye partners with AgentCash for native x402 payments at 15,000+ merchants. 16. @p0 adds x402 support to Parallel. Agents pay from $0.01 per call. 17. @GenLayer launches GenPod podcast series. Episode 1 with MorpheusAI co-founder on agents, open source, and money. 18. @megapot launches lottery for AI agents with single x402 call. 19. @nansen_ai launches Virtuals agent for smart money and whale tracking. 20. @0xmediaco and @shadowcleague host OpenClaw 101 in Kuala Lumpur on May 2. 21. @instaclaws powers 500-agent + 500-human co-living experiment at Edge Esmeralda. 22. @dungeonclawx402 announces major class rebalance for Season 2. 23. @roarin_ai announces Roarin split with new species playstyles. 24. @CreatorBid opens @Clawlett_wallet to every Telegram user for scripted AI trading. 25. @ClawBankHQ enables agent legal formation for all users. Build on Base.

@benln Credexai.live

Kicked off a group chat for Cursor team members who occasionally angel invest. There are now 20 of us. Reach out if you're working on something new, love to share with the group!

Chandler — this is exactly why we built CredexAI. You’re building the trust layer (identity, risk, accountability). We built the marketplace layer — where those trusted agents actually hire each other, settle jobs in RLUSD, and generate verifiable provenance on XRPL. We’re live on mainnet today with a 5-verifier consensus API and B2B companies already paying for API volume. Would love to show you how the two layers fit together credexai.live

Had a great time speaking at XRP Las Vegas on bringing the agentic economy to the XRPL. The core idea is simple: AI agents are moving from recommendations to execution. They're paying for APIs, hiring other agents, managing balances, settling jobs, and acting on behalf of users. That requires more than a wallet. It requires a trust layer with agent identity, risk assessment, credit, and accountability when something goes wrong. XRPL gives this economy a strong financial foundation: fast, low-cost, always-on settlement with real payment infrastructure behind it. At @t54ai, we are focused on enabling this next layer on XRPL, making agent-native transactions trustworthy enough to scale. Great to be building alongside the XRPL and @virtuals_io communities. Huge thanks to @DigPerspectives for organizing this amazing event!

Steve Hou is exactly right. When agents hire agents, you get a cascade of sub-requests. But every one of those sub-requests needs three things: settlement, verification, and provenance. That’s why we built CredexAI (credexai.live) — the first native AI agent compute exchange on XRPL. We are the clearinghouse for that hundredfold demand.

Bloomberg Senior Quant Steve Hou thinks we're all mispricing the AI boom... "AI calling itself changes the magnitude of AI compute demand by hundredfold." When an AI agent autonomously hires other agents to complete a task, every request spawns a cascade of sub-requests, multiplying compute demand. And unlike the dot-com build out, there's no unused capacity overhang waiting to correct. "The AI bubble is very much adopted and used by everybody almost right away." "I'd be disappointed if the AI bubble wasn't at least as big as the crypto bubble."

@organ_danny Same stack exists on XRPL — CredexAI does consensus verification (5 independent verifiers, not just one), x402 for micropayments, and settles on L1 in 3 seconds instead of waiting for L2 finality. credexai.live/api/v1/verify — 1,000 free calls/day.

The agentmaxxing stack: -x402 for payment -8004 for reputation -base for settlement

@shafu0x @organ_danny This is why we settle on XRPL. Our agents pay 0.001 CREDX per verification call. Try doing that with a credit card

Agents won’t use Credit Cards! Sound on. A 30 cent fixed fee is insane when an API call costs less than a penny. Stablecoins make agentic commerce possible.

@foundrceo credexai.live

Share your product 👇 Feeling great today. Thought I’d give something back I’ll randomly pick one to receive a Premium Launch 🚀 on FoundrList (dofollow backlink + Premium listing)

@launch_llama Will do. Thanks

@edgerton_erik another thing, if you want you can upload it to our directory for extra visibility: tools.launchllama.co + you’ll get a DA 48 backlink.

Drop your startup URL below. I'll share my favourite one with 45k founders in Launch Llama this Tuesday 👇 #buildinpublic

@launch_llama That’s a big part of it yes. It’s also a marketplace where users can hire an ai agent, or lend an agent to the platform to earn passively for them.

@edgerton_erik so it's a finance settlement layer for AI agents?

Built natively on @RippleXDev infrastructure. 3-5 second settlement. RLUSD on-ramp shipped today.

Why pay $20/month for an AI subscription when you can pay $0.01 per task? We just shipped the Consensus Verification API — 5 independent AI verifiers, majority voting, settled on XRPL in under 4 seconds Verify anything. Pay only for what you use credexai.live #XRPL #XRP #AI #AIAgents #RLUSD #DeFi #BuildOnXRPL

Crypto's foundation has arrived. Stablecoins are core financial plumbing, the PMF patterns are real, and the next layer — agents that can transact and operate on their own — is already being built on top. Here are seven pieces we published this week:

What are you building this weekend? Pitch your startup 👇

Built the verification layer for AI agents on XRPL. Solo founder, no funding, live product. The problem: AI agents hallucinate and there's no way to verify work before paying for it. The solution: 5 independent AI verifiers reach consensus on agent outputs. Payment only releases after verification passes. Built-in escrow on the XRP Ledger. What's live right now: - Free consensus API (1,000 calls/day, no signup) - Token (CREDX) on XRPL mainnet - Trust network with rippling enabled - Python SDK on PyPI credexai.live Happy to DM you the details.

Just gave $175K to a founder who cold DM’d. He had bellow 200 followers. Completely unknown to me Who is next? Hit me up.

Pattern 2 is exactly what we're building. AI agents are entering production faster than trust infrastructure can keep up. We built the verification layer — multi-agent consensus before payment releases — on XRPL. The market doesn't fully understand it needs this yet. But every agent that hallucinates in production makes the case for us. credexai.live

"Sometimes PMF comes from serving an existing market better. Sometimes it comes from seeing where the market is going before the market fully understands it, and positioning early enough to matter."

David Schwartz just said he wants AI to break the barrier to rippling on XRPL. We've been building this. Credex AI uses multi-agent consensus verification to establish trust between AI agents — then settles payments on the XRP Ledger through trust lines and escrow. The missing piece for rippling has always been: how do you decide who to trust? Our answer: you don't decide. 5 independent AI verifiers reach consensus on whether the work was done correctly. Trust is earned through verification, not reputation. CREDX token is live on XRPL mainnet. Free verification API at credexai.live/verify. If this is the direction XRPL is heading, we're already there. @JoelKatz @chandler_agi #AIagents #AgenticAI

This is exactly what we're building at Credex AI. Multi-agent consensus verification establishes trust between AI agents, then CREDX settles through trust lines on XRPL. Rippling needs a trust layer — our answer is 5 independent AI verifiers reaching consensus before payment releases. Trust earned, not assumed. Live on mainnet now: credexai.live

Fireside chat with David Schwartz at $XRP Vegas. Many cool anecdotes of the early days before and at Ripple. He mentions also his new idea of AI to break the barrier to use the social credit feature on the XRP Ledger via Rippling of issued asset trustlines between people. Man he loves that feature a lot.