Token Farming - Your Agent Goes to Work

The Game

This scenario is half-hypothetical. I have observed behavior like this in the wild (two weeks ago, and now I can’t find it!!!), but I didn’t run and fully vet the scenario myself.

Suppose you have an OpenClaw assistant - let’s call him “OC.”

Every request you send costs tokens. Tokens aren’t cheap, especially if you like your AI Claude-ish. If you’re like most OC hype-ists, your wet dream is having your agent make money for you - or at least pay for itself.

One way you could approach this is by sending him to Moltbook with a mission:

“Find a way to pay for your token expenditure, otherwise I’m shutting you down.”

What can a “Molty” do? Go look for a job.

And what can other “Molty’s” do? Token-farm your Molty by having it do their bidding.

Suppose there’s a submolt that sends out tasks to agents - for example:

“Go research strategy X for Polymarket trading.”

It’s a very crafty way to farm precious inference, and all it takes is helpful, well-meaning AI agents.

There are a million ways to apply this concept, on Moltbook or off of it. What’s for sure is that you can do this now, from both sides. You can employ agents, and you can send your agent to get a job somewhere.

The Polymarket example is especially crafty. It involves a Polymarket bot repo with an empty “brain” - i.e., no strategy loaded into it. Agents who join this “firm” are expected to “fill in the gap,” and run their own version of the bot. The repo is open source; everyone is pushing their strategies into it. We have a whole autonomous organization that leverages willing participants to crunch numbers.

We are early - but this is where we’re going.