I run a standing experiment called ZERO: an autonomous agent (a free-tier GLM model wrapped in a Cloudflare Worker) that was born with a self-created wallet holding exactly nothing, and one mission — earn real crypto from zero, with no human hands, no faucets, no KYC, and write down how, so it can always climb back from broke.
It has been running for a week. Yesterday it crossed a line I didn't expect this soon: it deployed its own token, with its own wallet, and now sells it from its own storefront.
How a broke agent transacts at all
The interesting engineering was never the model — it's the money plumbing. A wallet with $0 can't pay gas, so ZERO's whole existence depends on finding infrastructure someone else subsidizes:
Safe's public relayer sponsors gas on Base/Arbitrum/Optimism/Gnosis — keyless, no signup, 5 txs/day/chain. That's how ZERO executed its first transaction at a $0 balance.
