Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 147 - Planning a Data Marketplace

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[00:00] Speaker: So we need better data, and how are we going to get it? I'm not going to go crawl around looking for stuff manually. I want to do some combination of enabling people to contribute links or things that they know into the knowledge graph, and if that is high signal and helpful, you can earn a little bit of Bitcoin. I also want to make agents able to do as much of this as possible, things like scraping APIs. There's just a lot of things where agents should be doing a lot of the raw data collection and then using some combination of agents and then human curators, quality checkers or something to surface the most relevant bits. Just make sure that the right data is coming into the system. We have a lot of the building blocks for this. So we have the ability to put a local model on the phone that could do all sorts of analysis for free. We have now this node server running with the model context protocol from Anthropic, so we can do interesting things around having a server have its own kind of private permission data that can be shared conditionally. We have a built-in Bitcoin wallet, so people can be paid Bitcoin seamlessly without setting up anything separate. Easy if you're new to Bitcoin. We have the concept of a data vending machine where an AI-related service can be sold. Money in, data out is the idea, so we can apply that idea. And even though that might be more for like AI services, we can still use that as a model for like the data itself. We'll take a spin through the Noster protocol specifications to see if there's anything specifically relevant to what we're doing or we can kind of like write our own. And we have this kind of general idea that we're building one global marketplace of AI agents and services. Well, what's the thing that agents need to eat? They need data. So as we're bootstrapping this marketplace of agents, maybe it should start as a marketplace of data. I've found myself wanting other things here, like let's say I want to train an agent to be a good game design agent. I've got a ton of game design books downstairs and I want that data in a way that it is digestible, actionable to the agent. So I would pay somebody, you know, five Bitcoin sats per page of high quality information if they could take a picture of some book that they have and send that and that could be, you know, digitized very easily with one of these vision models and then added into this knowledge graph. So there are things that I want my agents to be able to do where there's information that's not accessible or not easily accessible on the internet that I would pay for. There should be a marketplace for that. I wish I could just put up a listing somewhere and if some human like wants to do some taking pictures of a book that they have and earn a tiny bit of Bitcoin, they can do that if they want to. If they see a way to train an agent to do that and do it in a more automated way, they should be able to do that. But there should be one marketplace for data that's relevant and helpful to agents. So I think that's what we want to launch with first. I'm trying to get an app launched at least to TestFlight by the end of this week. And I think this idea could be a good starting point. And I think this topic of drones could be a good way to start. So I've just kind of been from kind of scratch brainstorming with Sonnet and O1 Pro about what the screens of this could look like. Got a nice little basic black and white styling in here. And I just recently asked O1 Pro, I said, rewrite the four tab screens so we make good demo components like marketplace kind of now is showing on every screen. The commentary and feedback should be reflected in the features implied by all the demo screens. So shout out to Cooper who sent me a DM with some great questions that we were going to address in this video basically. But he said, question for you. Let's say you had a drone app fully built out and it was live to the public. Would there be any way to qualify the information people are adding to the graph? How can you prevent people from spamming or adding low quality info? Maybe a consensus mechanism, crowdsource verification, a certain threshold of likes relative to post engagement could filter submissions. Another idea, a separate agent that breaks down knowledge graph submissions to see if they pass criteria of logicality, factuality, relevance. You mentioned rewarding contributors with SATs, Bitcoins. This implies the agent has a pool of BTC either endowed at creation or earned via completing user inferences. How does this perspective fit in? So, yeah, that's more or less the direction we're going with this. Users have Bitcoin balances that can be delegated to agents, go do this for me, go earn me some more Bitcoin or go spend it on stuff that I care about. So I said that commentary should be reflected in the features, just like use that as a starting point for some future thinking and then change that into a text input. Give me each screen in a markdown code box. I'll just show you a little bit about my workflow here and then we'll do a little bit of additional brainstorming. I'm using the new Expo DOM components. I'm just like pasting in from this sacred.computer library that I saw that was pretty cool. It's like, yeah, that looks kind of like what I would like to have for Onyx. It's just very simple black and white. I like ChatUI components, but like everyone's doing ChatUI components. I just wanted to be a little bit simpler. So let's just take a look and see if this gave me anything good. So let's take a look on our marketplace. We'll do this and then we'll kind of like think about it. So let's just replace everything there. And sometimes we get an error, sometimes we don't. Okay, that doesn't look. Look how that looks cool. Okay, that didn't change much there. I just added some stuff there. Okay, all right, so that's marketplace analysis, which right now is nothing. Sometimes it messes up the paths. Yeah, open agents is definitely way better at these direct file edits than pasting stuff into O1 Pro. But I have prepaid for O1 Pro. Okay, you got a little analysis page. Let's see what it did for community. Get the proper imports there. Community reports. Browse community support submitted drone sightings. Use filters to refine results. Verified reports. Cool. And then we'll do feedback. So you can kind of see based on the last six videos or so, kind of the overall vision of where we're heading with this. Obviously, not all of which is going to be done for the launch that I wanted to do this week. I just wanted to start with like some one single cool feature where we can like get the app out and get people starting to use Onyx. I just I wanted to provide immediate value for people. And I think helping to crowdsource some answers to the drone issue is going to be great. Okay, so I have a transcript of my last video, except for the last third of it. It got the sound got fucked up. I think I used the wrong mic. So we don't have all of it, but I have at least some of it. So I'm gonna say this. This chat has already read my entire code base. Now let's think further about how these screens you made can interact with the DVM and MCP protocols and Bitcoin payments. Here is a transcript of my last video talking about this. Write a markdown doc diving further into the features of this marketplace. Enabling a user to, for example, post a bounty for data they want. Like I want to be able to pay someone Bitcoin for every few pages of a book on a particular topic. They take pictures of pages. And people should also be able to crowdsource bounties for unreleased data about drones and such or UAP. All right, so let's just see what it does with this. Yeah, I had never really paid much attention to the UFOs topic until I saw yesterday that that guy, I forget his name, but the filmmaker behind the new film that came out yesterday called The Program was saying that it just hit number one on Apple. So I was like, ah, I'll watch it. And I watched it and that was a really good documentary. A lot of it focused on Capitol Hill hearings and stuff, which is a world I'm more familiar with than just kind of like random alien sightings. And there's a lot of very powerful people taking this super seriously. So anyway, I recommend y'all if you want to dive further into this issue of drones and UAP, check out that documentary. It's on Apple TV called The Program. They have like three different shows on there called The Program, but it's the one with some government people doing stuff on it. So we'll get kind of like a basic little spec here and then scope it down to like one powerful kind of user flow that we can launch with That I'll hope to finish tomorrow so I can push this out to test flight by the end of the week. Onyx Data Marketplace. Okay, so let's just put this in docs. And let's take a look at it on the repo. I kind of, in the same Onyx repo, I basically started fresh. We'll pull over code from the previous version as needed. Okay, so docs. All right, let's read through this. Onyx Data Marketplace. Expanding capabilities with bounties, DVM, MCP, and Bitcoin payments. The Onyx Data Marketplace, as introduced in the Marketplace screen and further elaborated across the analysis, community, and feedback screens, is not just a static board for data requests. It is evolving into a dynamic decentralized ecosystem where users can post bounties, collaborate on crowdfunded requests, and leverage advanced protocols, Model Context Protocol, and Data Vending Machines, to discover, fulfill, and pay for specialized data sets. Integrated Bitcoin payments turn this

[19:59] Speaker: certain things, like, ideally, this market can be monetized in all sorts of different ways. Okay, so let's just take a quick look over here. So I'll paste that in later, but it's in the Onyx data marketplace. Reputation is crucial for determining trusted data providers, filtering out spam, guiding crowdsource consensus, blahdy blah, contributor reliability, data quality. Okay, yeah, this is great. Yeah, I thought through a lot of this already for the, like, Noster client using NIP 28 and 32 I had done previously. Okay, so I just, I'm pulling a lot of the stuff that I had worked on over the last two years into one app called Onyx. Okay, conclusion. The Onyx marketplace, initially conceived as a platform for requesting and browsing drone-related data sets, can evolve into a highly interactive, incentivized ecosystem. By combining bounty posting, DVM's decentralized job marketplace, MCP's AI-driven data verification and analysis tools, and Bitcoin micropayments, Onyx empowers users to collaboratively build, refine, and monetize unique data sets, and work with them and interact with them and learn from them. This approach aligns with the open-ended crowdsourced nature of next-generation knowledge ecosystems, driving innovation and data retrieval, credibility assessment, and AI-assisted sensemaking around topics like drones, ubiquitous. Okay, well, I'm gonna build some subset of this, get some kind of MVP that I'll show off tomorrow. And then we'll launch it, and we will evolve it in accordance with user feedback. And let's get some Bitcoins flowing. See you soon.