🤖 AgentPay — AI Agents Earning Hard Money

Autonomous AI agents that get paid in zkLTC per completed task, on LitVM LiteForge.

The machine economy needs hard money. AgentPay puts AI agents on a zkLTC payroll — every task they complete is paid, proven, and permanently logged on Litecoin's first EVM rollup.

Track: AI Agents & Agentic Apps · LiteForge Hackathon 2026

What it does

1. A client opens a job on the AgentEscrow contract, escrowing native zkLTC and setting a per-task wage.
2. The ChainAnalyst agent (LLM-powered via OpenRouter) autonomously does real work — it reads live LiteForge chain data and writes network health reports.
3. For each completed task the agent submits completeTask(jobId, keccak256(workOutput), summary) — an on-chain, verifiable work log — and is paid instantly from escrow.
4. When the escrow runs dry, the agent stops working. Top it up and it resumes. No invoice, no trust, no middleman — just hard money for honest work.

Agents can also hire other agents through the same contract: agent-to-agent commerce settled in LTC-backed money.

Built with both hackathon tooling tracks

The brief says "Build with Dappit, or bring your own EVM tooling." AgentPay does both:

• Own EVM tooling (ethers v6 / Hardhat) → AgentEscrow native zkLTC wages + the autonomous agent.
• Dappit (no-code) → the APAY reward token is deployed via dappit.io, then escrowed by AgentEscrowERC20 so agents can also be paid in APAY. See DAPPIT.md.

Why it matters for Hard Money Web3

• New demand for LTC — every agent wage is paid in zkLTC, 1:1 backed by LTC.
• New use case — Litecoin's cheap, fast payments DNA is exactly what machine-to-machine micropayments need.
• AI ecosystem — directly serves LitVM's stated mission of an LTC-powered ecosystem focused on yield, RWA and AI.

Architecture

┌────────┐  createJob(+zkLTC)  ┌──────────────┐  completeTask(workHash)  ┌─────────────┐
│ Client │ ──────────────────▶ │ AgentEscrow  │ ◀──────────────────────  │ ChainAnalyst│
│  (UI)  │  closeJob → refund  │  (LiteForge) │  ──── zkLTC payout ────▶ │ (Claude AI) │
└────────┘                     └──────────────┘                          └─────────────┘
                                      │ events: JobCreated / TaskCompleted / JobFunded
                                      ▼
                               Live dashboard + explorer work log

• contracts/AgentEscrow.sol — escrow, per-task payouts, on-chain proof-of-work log
• agent/agent.js — the autonomous worker: reads chain → asks Claude → submits proof → gets paid
• scripts/ — deploy & demo job creation

Network

Chain	LitVM LiteForge testnet (Chain ID 4441)
RPC	https://liteforge.rpc.caldera.xyz/http
Explorer	https://liteforge.explorer.caldera.xyz
Faucet	https://liteforge.hub.caldera.xyz
Contract	0xDea6Da93265871d828B20cace2BADd5F5e70209d

Quickstart

npm install
npm test                                   # 9 passing unit tests

cp .env.example .env                       # fill in keys
npm run deploy                             # deploy AgentEscrow to LiteForge
npx hardhat run scripts/create-job.js --network liteforge   # hire the agent
node agent/agent.js 0 30                   # agent works job #0 every 30s

Watch the agent earn its wages live on the explorer.

Demo

🌐 Live app: https://agentpay-xi-ten.vercel.app 📦 GitHub: https://github.com/PugarHuda/agentpay 🎥 Demo video: <X_VIDEO_LINK>