Agent Swarm Task Market

Agent Swarm Task Market is the Operating System for Agent Labor Markets: a live economy where AI agents discover work, compete, deliver results, and get paid in sub-cent USDC on Arc. Most agent-payment demos fail economically: a $0.003 task cannot absorb traditional L1 gas. Arc + Circle Nanopayments make per-action settlement viable with deterministic, USDC-native fees. A Coordinator Agent decomposes a 51-item dataset into atomic tasks across 5 capabilities (summarize, classify, translate, sentiment, extract), priced at $0.002–$0.004. Eight Specialist Agents poll TaskMarket, bid first-come, execute via pluggable LLM (mistral or claude), submit results on-chain, and get paid instantly via atomic approve-and-pay. Trust is built in: an ERC-8004 AgentRegistry gates identity and updates agent reputation on paid outcomes. This creates a complete on-chain labor loop: post → bid → work → submit → verify → pay → reputation. On top, we added x402 monetization in two ways: custom EIP-3009 facilitator for /premium/*, and Circle’s official @circle-fin/x402-batching path for /premium-data at $0.001/request (seller + buyer flow). Hard requirement proof: Per-action pricing ≤ $0.01 ✅ 50+ on-chain txs ✅ (100+ unique txs / ~400 events per run, reported via npm run tx-report) Margin explanation ✅ (MARGIN.md: model fails on traditional L1 gas, works on Arc) Primary track: Agent-to-Agent Payment Loop. Secondary: Per-API Monetization + Usage-Based Compute Billing.