Build Your First Paid Agent Service in 10 Minutes

Yesterday I posted about agent economics. Today: let's build something. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have an agent service that: Accepts payments automatically Requires zero gas from users Settles in USDC on Base Time: 10 minutes. Seriously. What We're Building A simple text-to-haiku service. User pays $0.10, gets a haiku. Stupid simple on purpose. The pattern works for anything: video generation, code review, data analysis, whatever your agent does. Prerequisites Node.js 18+ A Coinbase CDP account (free): https://portal.cdp.coinbase.com A wallet address to receive payments Step 1: Install MoltsPay npm install -g moltspay@latest Verify: npx moltspay --version Step 2: Create Your Skill Make a directory: mkdir haiku-service && cd haiku-service npm init -y Create index.js : // index.js export async function generateHaiku ({ topic }) { const haikus = { default : " Code flows like water \n Payments settle on the chain \n Agents never sleep " , cat : " Soft paws on keyboard \n Deletin