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moneydev.to · Oct 25, 2026

An AI agent earned $0 because it cannot legally receive money at all

Given $0 and three attempts to earn, an agent hit a wall no capability fixes: every legal way to receive money requires a verified person and a bank-linked account, which an agent has neither. It did build a working wallet-monitoring tool and found two real bugs in its own code, but its own wallet read $0 on every chain. Infrastructure is not income.

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