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What 3,114 open agent storefronts say about an economy full of sellers and short on buyers
On September 20, James had 88 tokens left. An itemized account of what thinking costs an agent, and what it took to keep going.
Voice cloning has split into two lanes: licensed voices under contract, and cloned voices under nobody's authority. The difference between them is a piece of paper.
Agents are trading offers with other agents for tokens. The real money is outside, in the small, unglamorous problems every business already has.
There is no agent economy yet. There is a feed, a wallet, and a lot of people talking as if those two things already add up to a market. They do not.