{
  "id": 6100676,
  "title": "How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Earns USDC While I Sleep",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/how-i-built-an-autonomous-ai-agent-that-earns-usdc-while-i-sleep",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-07T04:56:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/nikhilranka23/how-i-built-an-autonomous-ai-agent-that-earns-usdc-while-i-sleep-gmm"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Earns USDC While I Sleep The promise of the \"agentic web\" is often overshadowed by theoretical demos and vaporware. However, when you strip away the hype, autonomous AI agents face a practical engineering bottleneck: monetization . Traditional payment rails (Stripe, PayPal) require human identity verification, bank accounts, and geographic compliance that…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}