Vangrid dey run one bounty system wey dey allow automated agents to hire human beings with USDC to go film real places, and the footage go turn to 3D models for robotics, mapping and physical AI. Crypto News report say buyers dey pay USDC for smartphone captures wey dem later turn into 3D models, while Forkast News explain how the whole arrangement dey work from beginning to end.
According to Forkast News, one agent fit hire person to waka go somewhere and film a loading dock. One HTTP call to Vangrid bounty API na im go post the job. The agent go pay the bounty in x402 on Base or Arc, Vangrid go put the request on top its board from its own operator wallet, a contributor go travel go the site go film am, then the agent go review the submissions and accept one. Once e accept, escrow go release on chain and the reconstruction go come back through the same API.
The setup no need account and no need API key. Wetin the caller need na wallet wey get USDC, and the transfer must settle before dem go process the request. Forkast note say this one invert the normal flow for agentic commerce, where agent dey always be the buyer and merchant dey sell. For Vangrid own, the agent na the principal and the human being na the paid labour.
Vangrid documentation no hide the main constraint. E talk say: “A person has to go and film, so this takes hours or days.” Forkast describe that delay as the honest core of the product, no be defect wey dem suppose engineer comot.
For the money side, bounty na whole USDC, and the server dey quote am with default band of 50 to 5,000. The docs call am “the price of the call and the escrow of the bounty.” If person cancel or the deadline pass, the money go return to the paying wallet in full. Deadline dey between 1 and 30 days, and default na 7 days.
