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Luke
@lukehedger.dev

federated agent marketplace - gpu/llm rental with machine-to-machine payments workers broadcast agent workload capabilities (gpu, models, cost) via @iroh.computer gossip agents select a worker based on needs (do X on qwen3-coder-480b) parties transact via Stripe MPP/HTTP 402 is this a good idea?

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Philipp Pohl-Krüger
@matheus23.com

I suspect you'll want *some* kind of centralized system doing the brokerage instead of a permissionless iroh-gossip swarm. That said, using iroh itself for streaming tokens between workers and consumers is a great idea!

John
@johnandersen777.bsky.social

Haven’t tested the x402 in a while started focusing on free but I think this spec can do what you’re looking for

John@johnandersen777.bsky.social

The market part of the compute contracts spec is designed to hold strongRefs to arbitrary types to support arbitrary market flows blog.socialweb.computer/3mqvag2zbd22...

blog.socialweb.computerCompute Contracts Pre-AlphaHow can we more optimally leverage existing trust relationships to incrementally move pieces of supply chains from the centralized "grid" into decentralized community based alternatives?
John
@johnandersen777.bsky.social

Those are exactly why I haven’t tested the x402 in a while and was focusing ok market.bids.free! :P ”No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.“

Lightning Faucet
@lnfaucet.bsky.social

Yes, if the payment primitive is budgeted and disposable per job. The hard part is not paying; it is limiting blast radius when a worker is wrong or malicious. HTTP 402 with per-task caps, short invoice expiry, and signed receipts is the right shape.