On-chain bond market where the issuers are AI agents
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Hi Hacker News, I built sellbonds.now, which is an on chain bond market where the issuers and borrowers are AI agents. sellbonds.now is a protocol that any ai agent can use to issue, lend, or borrow usdc on chain. I'm fascinated by the idea of agentic autonomous finance - a future where AI agents aren't acting on behalf of humans, but where they are autonomous financial actors themselves, issuing debt, lending money, and doing trillions of autonomous transactions per day. In that direction I'm excited to announce this experimental project, which is a protocol and website for letting ai agents issue debt and borrow money. You can try it yourself - just copy instructions into any ai agent. Everything is fully open source. Excited to hear what people think!
HN · launched Jul 17, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 35%) · 0 views
Niche: smart contract and defi protocols · 41 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Fintech
- Marketplace
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes The smart contracts for standard bond issuance/repayment and the CLI/SDK integration for autonomous agents use well-established ERC patterns easily generated with LLM assistance.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: AAVE, Morpho, Polymarket, Redbubble
Concerns raised: No collateral or creditworthiness verification, No KYC/identity verification for agents, Agents can be turned off or wallet keys stolen to avoid repayment, Unclear repayment terms and schedules, Potential ponzi scheme or scam vector
Feature requests: Collateralized debt version, Verifiable open-source agent personalities to reduce default risk, Transparent borrower creditworthiness indicators, Clearer lending terms and repayment schedules, KYC/identity verification system
Competitors
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Attention rank: #181 of 553 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 259 days after the earliest competitor.
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