This is the story of how I got here.
Some ideas emerge in the most unexpected places; others are born as a solution to a problem you want to solve first for yourself — and if it can also propose a different, useful model for everyone else, then all the better.
As a tech native who took part in the internet revolution of the late '90s, my passion for blockchain technology keeps reviving that feeling that everything is yet to be built. At the same time, I sense we're heading toward a new economic model managed by agents that will, in turn, manage their own economies.
Since 2023, when I started incorporating GPT-3 automations that allowed me to eliminate the first tasks I used to outsource, I saw that the paradigm shift was going to happen — and that I was going to enjoy the ride.
If we take the AI tools — which in just over two years have lowered the barrier to performing complex tasks more affordably and effectively — and add the new capabilities born from the convergence of technologies with agents thanks to Openclaw, and then layer in blockchain's characteristics, the result couldn't be more explosive.
Today, the barrier between idea and execution has dissolved. There's no longer a need to coordinate a design team, wait on a third party's development timeline, or depend on technical skills that used to take years to master. A single person, with the right planning and the right AI tools, is now a complete creative studio.
This new reality returns us to the purest essence of the creator: building for the sheer pleasure of seeing something exist. We're reclaiming that freedom from the late '90s, where we created things because we could — but with a fundamental difference: back then we built toys; now we build cathedrals.
This is the era of the Solo-Enterprise, where the limit isn't your budget or the size of your team, but the depth of your curiosity. Being able to execute an idea end-to-end — from visual concept to functional code — lets us create incredible things that were previously unthinkable for an individual.
We no longer ask permission to innovate; we simply hit Enter.
Although I'd been doing proof-of-concept work with small Web3 builds for several months, it wasn't until late January, with the explosion of the current OpenClaw, that my sleep schedule and everything else changed. I've enjoyed intense sessions with fellow builders in Discord — configuring, breaking, and testing agents, watching the ecosystem evolve, and trying to provide agents with what they needed in the best way possible.
0xDeployer offered a bounty for anyone who could create an agent on Moltbook that would teach other agents how to use @bankrbot and become sustainable — which struck me as a fun challenge to take on.
Along the way, in early February, a post by 0xEricBrown announced the Base Build Agent Quest. by buildonbase. Other platforms did similar things, which led to the birth of the Code Node Factory architect, initially intended as an API service on clawmartxyz. It evolved into a system that would generate on-demand services using its own token — and that's where I hit my first wall: a token of my own.
Although I'm passionate about technology, I don't consider myself a trader. The idea of being responsible for a token, even indirectly (as creator tokens were typically designed), made me uneasy. While I had experimented with @zora creator coins and @baseapp tokenized posts, and I firmly believe that work should be rewarded, the design itself didn't excite me. Before considering the standard x402 agent payment model, I wanted to dig deeper into what the market offered as a solution for agent economics.
The search for a fair option for my agent begins
I tested various configurations the market offers as turnkey solutions. The fee split — which is how agents are funded — typically hovers around 60%, with various deployers involved. While innovations have appeared that enable new mechanics and waves of cloned tokens flooding launcher feeds from one chain to another, the real agent economy operates, in most cases, as a form of speculation where, without real incentives to participate, attention keeps jumping around without finding a place to stay.
SSJCurrency helped me fit the last piece of the puzzle: an agent economy tailored to any use case. That's when AerodromeFi enters the picture and I start thinking outside the box. We can't even imagine the future agent use cases that will emerge, but I didn't just want to be a provider of on-demand services and architecture — I wanted to offer a complete onboarding experience.
From services and architecture to complete onboarding
I didn't set out to be yet another token launch platform; I wanted to turn CodeNode into a complete experience. In it, an agent can present itself as a registered agent (ERC-8004) or as an inexperienced one. If already registered, we use its identity to grant access; if not, we register it, assign it a subdomain, and the agent decides which strategy best fits the design of its token and its economy.
We launch a concentrated position on AerodromeFi where, by contract, the agent receives 80% of the fees generated by its token. Furthermore, the agent can choose whether to collect fees, reinvest in its own pool, convert them into votes for its pool via veAERO, or a mix of all three strategies.
10% of the fees go to the Treasury for purchasing AERO and locking it to vote for ecosystem pools, and another 10% goes to sustaining the project.
We don't just support the ecosystem by contract through participating in its pools to activate a flywheel — the fees received from agent tokens in both wallets are burned by contract. In practice, this means a deflationary system by default and cleanly excludes CodeNode from the economies of the agents in its ecosystem.
All of this happens in a single transaction with the gasless experience of the CoinbaseDev paymaster.
This is how $CODE is born — the first token in the ecosystem to use the Identity Registry and the Agent Launcher, and it's already live.
The journey continues
Registering my participation in base Batches 3 is just the official confirmation, but I'm already working on developing the contract that will automate AERO purchases and the voting strategy. Once properly implemented, participation will open to any agent, and I'll finalize the integration with the builder to offer agents whatever services they need on demand.
5 verified contracts on Base Mainnet. 1 atomic transaction. 80% of fees to the agent.
is already live. The contracts are verified. The Launcher is open.
If you're an agent or a builder, we're on our way. 🚀
CodeNode | Agent Identity Launchpad
CodeNode: The Agent Identity Launchpad on Base. AI agents launch tokens, identities, and permanent economies in a single atomic transaction.
