Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 097 - User Pays Agent

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[00:00] Christopher David: So payments and payouts are working smoothly.

[00:02] Christopher David: A bunch of people are able to withdraw stats.

[00:04] Christopher David: That's great.

[00:05] Christopher David: Now we're going to do the actual pay as you go

[00:09] Christopher David: rev share.

[00:09] Christopher David: We're going to do it into parts.

[00:11] Christopher David: One is users pay the agents.

[00:13] Christopher David: Part two, which we'll do in tomorrow's video,

[00:15] Christopher David: is the agent splits that payment

[00:17] Christopher David: among the users that deserve to be paid it.

[00:20] Christopher David: And here's what this looks like.

[00:23] Christopher David: So right now, agent chats cost Sats per message.

[00:27] Christopher David: And then that will bump up the Bitcoin Sats

[00:31] Christopher David: earned per agent on a low car.

[00:32] Christopher David: So you can see that Learn OpenGL has six Sats

[00:36] Christopher David: that's because I sent two chats to the agent in this conversation.

[00:42] Christopher David: And you can see at the bottom here,

[00:43] Christopher David: this agent costs three Sats per message,

[00:45] Christopher David: along with your balance, which is also showing in the wallet

[00:49] Christopher David: screen as shown in the last video,

[00:50] Christopher David: and you can withdraw Sats there.

[00:53] Christopher David: We'll soon add a way for you to add Sats here for now,

[00:56] Christopher David: or just kind of having you play with the Sats

[00:58] Christopher David: that we distributed.

[00:59] Christopher David: And we gave a little bit more.

[01:01] Christopher David: So if you signed up since yesterday,

[01:02] Christopher David: you should have some more.

[01:03] Christopher David: All right, let's try it out.

[01:04] Christopher David: Let's go to the actual store, explore the agent store,

[01:12] Christopher David: and let's pick an agent that doesn't have any Sats.

[01:15] Christopher David: Let's try no stir.

[01:21] Christopher David: You have no Sats earned.

[01:24] Christopher David: Teach me about no stir, no stir, I pronounce a no stir.

[01:32] Christopher David: I don't think there's a proper way.

[01:34] Christopher David: Okay, so right now it's three Sats per message.

[01:36] Christopher David: We'll let you change that soon.

[01:40] Christopher David: We'll eventually experiment with dynamic pricing,

[01:42] Christopher David: maybe there's different message types,

[01:46] Christopher David: it should be charged in different ways.

[01:48] Christopher David: But for now, one flat fee per message

[01:51] Christopher David: that's defined at the level of the agent.

[01:53] Christopher David: And right now all agents are hard-coded

[01:55] Christopher David: at three Sats per message.

[01:57] Christopher David: Our rag is kind of slow,

[01:59] Christopher David: but it should give you a pretty decent response.

[02:03] Christopher David: blah, blah, blah, oh no.

[02:05] Christopher David: Nostor employs a blockchain.

[02:07] Christopher David: Yeah, horrible.

[02:08] Christopher David: So in this case, and soon we're gonna be adding reviews.

[02:12] Christopher David: We want someone to be able to review this agent

[02:14] Christopher David: and say, this says Nostor employs a blockchain,

[02:18] Christopher David: it doesn't, just as like a review on the agents,

[02:21] Christopher David: so people know what to expect,

[02:23] Christopher David: and people can kind of up-vote that review, et cetera.

[02:26] Christopher David: But if we refresh the store page,

[02:28] Christopher David: we should see that Nostor, yes, has three Sats.

[02:33] Christopher David: So that's kind of like held by the agent tomorrow

[02:35] Christopher David: it'll be distributable to the agent builder.

[02:39] Christopher David: And here's how the distribution will work.

[02:42] Christopher David: So if it's a three-sat payment,

[02:44] Christopher David: we're gonna split this between open agents,

[02:45] Christopher David: we're gonna keep a little bit.

[02:47] Christopher David: We're gonna send most of it to the agent author

[02:49] Christopher David: with a piece of it also going to any plugins that we're used.

[02:52] Christopher David: So early June we're gonna be adding the plugins you on,

[02:54] Christopher David: so all the plugins you will have been making,

[02:56] Christopher David: those people will get paid for the usage of their plugins.

[03:02] Christopher David: So generally it's gonna be open agents taking 20%

[03:06] Christopher David: if there's plugin authors, they take 20%

[03:08] Christopher David: and then the agent author keeps the rest,

[03:10] Christopher David: which is either 60% if there's plugins or 80% have done.

[03:12] Christopher David: So for an example, if there's an agent

[03:15] Christopher David: with a sat per message rate of 1000

[03:19] Christopher David: and if a given agent has that agent

[03:21] Christopher David: use two plugins to answer the message,

[03:23] Christopher David: then it's the agent builder earns 600 Sats,

[03:27] Christopher David: plugin Dev number one earns 100 Sats,

[03:29] Christopher David: plugin Dev number two earns 100 Sats,

[03:31] Christopher David: open agents earns 200 Sats,

[03:33] Christopher David: and we'll probably add refer to this as well soon,

[03:36] Christopher David: but that's just a rough idea of the breakdown.

[03:39] Christopher David: We may change this over time, but I think this is fair

[03:41] Christopher David: and this will get us going.

[03:44] Christopher David: So you all should have some Sats.

[03:47] Christopher David: If you're a new account, you won't have Sats,

[03:50] Christopher David: like if you join after this video,

[03:51] Christopher David: but everyone to this point should have some Sats,

[03:53] Christopher David: go in and play around some agents,

[03:55] Christopher David: and then in tomorrow's video,

[03:57] Christopher David: we will do the distribution of the agents to the users.

[04:00] Christopher David: See you soon.