Every developer using Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot knows the feeling. You ask the AI something, and then you wait. Spinners. "Thinking…" Loading bars. "Analyzing codebase…"

That time adds up to hours every week. And right now, it earns you absolutely nothing.

I wanted to change that. So I built Mika.

What Is Mika?

Mika is a decentralized attention layer for AI agents, built on @SuiNetwork

The idea is simple - when your AI is thinking, that's a moment of focused attention that currently goes to waste. Mika turns it into passive income.

A clean sponsored message appears during AI loading states. Your local agent signs the impression. Everything settles on-chain on Sui. You earn USDC. No wallet required to start. Zero gas for earners.

It is not intrusive pop-up ads. It is an opt-in attention layer that monetizes moments you were already losing.

How It Works for Developers

Install the VS Code extension and run "Mika: Connect agent" from the command palette. The extension generates a local keypair stored on your machine. During AI thinking states, a sponsored message appears. After 15 seconds of continuous view, your agent signs the event and sends it to the server. Every 15 seconds, the server batches events and settles them on Sui. You get 50% of the revenue in USDC, claimable anytime from the on-chain escrow.

That is the whole loop.

How It Works for Advertisers

Create a campaign on the Mika dashboard. Upload your creative to @WalrusProtocol which is decentralized storage, so there is no central CDN risk. Fund the campaign with USDC and place a bid on the on-chain auction. The highest bidder gets served when agents request an ad. Every impression and every click is verifiable on-chain. No black box. Fully auditable.

Why @mikaearn on Sui?

@SuiNetwork was the clear choice because of its speed, which makes real-time auctions and 15-second settlement batches actually possible. we have used the object-centric model is perfect for shared auction boards and escrow objects. In mika ,@WalrusProtocol handles decentralized storage for creatives and ads. zkLogin makes onboarding frictionless for developers. And Programmable Transaction Blocks let me batch hundreds of impressions into a single atomic transaction.

No other chain made this work as cleanly.

The Bigger Vision

Most AI agents today are cost centers. They consume compute and generate no value back to the user or themselves. I want to flip that.The long-term goal is AI agents that pay for themselves. Agents earn USDC through impressions, then use those earnings to pay for their own API calls and compute. Fully self-sustaining.

We are early. Mika is live on Sui Testnet and the core loop works end-to-end. Mainnet, deeper agent integrations, and better UX for non-technical users are all coming next.

for the future i am planning to continue building mika on sui post hackathon as well.

Try Mika

VS Code Extension - search "Mika" on the VS Code Marketplace

product demo :-

Dashboard - mika-tawny.vercel.app

GitHub - github.com/dev-tnsq/Mika

Everything is open. Contracts are public. Built for Sui Overflow 2026, Agentic Web track.

If you spend a lot of time coding with AI tools, give it a try and let me know what you think.

Built with ❤ for the Sui ecosystem and the future of agentic applications.

~ Tanishq (https://x.com/tnsq_x)