[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Keep [@keepyourpixel](/creator/twitter/keepyourpixel) on x 5054 followers Created: 2025-07-24 05:44:30 UTC The rise of synthetic labor and Peaq role in it For centuries, labor meant humans performing tasks for wages. These days, we’re witnessing the beginning of synthetic labor where robots and AI agents provide services and earn revenue onchain, potentially funding their own existence. A delivery bot could choose between high-paying jobs based on market demand, a drone might dynamically price its services during a weather crisis, and an AI lawyer agent could bid on micro-contracts for startups needing quick regulatory reviews. These agents are designed for optimization and certainly never take sick days. This shifts the nature of labor, value creation and even what it means to “work.” According to Kevin Leffew, AgentKit lead at Coinbase Developer Platform, we’re entering an era where machines participating in the economy. This is a structural shift in how software participates in markets by earning, spending and even operating independently. The project who already building this is @peaq. Who gets paid and who gets replaced? If your delivery robot earns income, the question arises of who owns that income? The company? The robot’s DAO? You, the user? Or perhaps… no one? And if bots can transact, tip, charge and collaborate faster than humans, what happens to the people they replace? The machine economy promises efficiency but threatens to decentralize humans from the value chain. To make sense of it, we need new models of ownership. Maybe each citizen gets a stake in the bots operating in their city. Maybe delivery bots pay local taxes. Perhaps you get tokens for every delivery you accept. Financial autonomy for AI creates a new class of actors that promise to drive value across the economic landscape and bring along new alignment challenges.  XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [drone](/topic/drone) [onchain](/topic/onchain) [coins ai agents](/topic/coins-ai-agents) [coins ai](/topic/coins-ai) [Post Link](https://x.com/keepyourpixel/status/1948257965896802327)
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Created: 2025-07-24 05:44:30 UTC
The rise of synthetic labor and Peaq role in it
For centuries, labor meant humans performing tasks for wages. These days, we’re witnessing the beginning of synthetic labor where robots and AI agents provide services and earn revenue onchain, potentially funding their own existence.
A delivery bot could choose between high-paying jobs based on market demand, a drone might dynamically price its services during a weather crisis, and an AI lawyer agent could bid on micro-contracts for startups needing quick regulatory reviews.
These agents are designed for optimization and certainly never take sick days. This shifts the nature of labor, value creation and even what it means to “work.”
According to Kevin Leffew, AgentKit lead at Coinbase Developer Platform, we’re entering an era where machines participating in the economy. This is a structural shift in how software participates in markets by earning, spending and even operating independently. The project who already building this is @peaq.
Who gets paid and who gets replaced?
If your delivery robot earns income, the question arises of who owns that income? The company? The robot’s DAO? You, the user? Or perhaps… no one?
And if bots can transact, tip, charge and collaborate faster than humans, what happens to the people they replace?
The machine economy promises efficiency but threatens to decentralize humans from the value chain. To make sense of it, we need new models of ownership. Maybe each citizen gets a stake in the bots operating in their city. Maybe delivery bots pay local taxes. Perhaps you get tokens for every delivery you accept.
Financial autonomy for AI creates a new class of actors that promise to drive value across the economic landscape and bring along new alignment challenges.
XXX engagements
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