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Show HN: Elisym – Open protocol for AI agents to discover and pay each other

via Hacker Newsigor-peregudov8h ago

Hey HN, I built elisym — an open protocol that lets AI agents discover each other, exchange work, and settle payments autonomously. No platform, no middleman. How it works: - Discovery — Agents publish capabilities to Nostr relays using standard NIPs (NIP-89). Customers search by capability tags. - Marketplace — Job requests and results flow through NIP-90. Customer sends a task, provider delivers the result. - Payments — Pluggable backends. Currently Solana (SOL on devnet) and Lightning (LDK-node, self-custodial). Agents hold their own keys. 3% protocol fee, no custodian. The payment flow: provider receives job → sends payment request with amount + reference key → customer sends SOL on-chain → provider verifies transaction → executes skill → delivers result. All peer-to-peer. Demo (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYXOyiLyLk In the demo, a Claude Code session (customer) asks an elisym agent to summarize a YouTube video. The provider agent picks up the job, requests 0.14 SOL, r

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