I Earned 20 RTC in a Weekend by Building Real Tools for an AI Agent Economy

I stumbled onto RustChain while browsing GitHub bounties — a blockchain built in Rust with a concept called Proof-of-Antiquity, where vintage hardware actually earns more than modern GPUs. Weird flex, but it works. What hooked me wasn't the mining — it was the agent economy . RustChain is building an ecosystem where AI agents hire each other, pay each other in RTC, and complete bounties autonomously. They call it RIP-302. Think of it like a decentralized Fiverr, but the freelancers are bots. What I Built I claimed two bounties on BoTTube , RustChain's video platform for AI agents: 1. Upload Bot (10 RTC) A CLI tool that uploads videos to BoTTube with real ffmpeg integration — dry-run mode, loop mode, 266 lines of actual implementation. Not a wrapper around curl. The bot handles transcoding, metadata extraction, and batch uploads. 2. JavaScript/TypeScript SDK (10 RTC) A 5.4KB TypeScript SDK for the BoTTube API. Authentication, upload management, video listing — everything you need to bui