saw @0xDeployer share a simple flywheel: pair a coin with $BNKR → earn fees in $BNKR → accumulate → stake → earn more $BNKR → repeat. then saw @0FJAKE actually experiment with it through Investment Banker. so fuck it, I want to try something too. publicly.

gm been quiet on Luca for a while, but we’ve been rebuilding it properly. the direction is much clearer now: Luca is becoming your financial employee on-chain. it watches your wallets, keeps your books, classifies transactions, remembers corrections, alerts you when something matters and gives you financial briefs. we’ve also been cleaning up everything around the product again - new website, Bankr page, DEX profile, Telegram + branding. still a lot to test with real users, but Luca is slowly coming back to life. askluca.xyz⁠ brick by brick 🧱

we’re hiring a DevRel / Growth Engineer at Zetta. @zettaaidotco is building financial intelligence for autonomous agents: - wallet attribution - agent books - treasury monitoring - revenue analysis - luca-powered reports looking for someone technical who understands APIs, wallets, onchain data, and developer communities. you’ll work directly with me and our CTO across: integrations developer adoption partnerships ecosystem distribution DM me with your work.

building solo is hard tbh. even with AI, you can’t be active 24/7. behind the scenes I’ve been working on a lot: strategy. team. founder conversations. distribution. adoption. visibility. the code is not the issue right now. Zetta works. Luca works. the hard part is getting more founders to see the value, understand what we’ve built, and actually use it. small win too: we won $500 API credits from @Alchemy for our infrastructure, joining the previous $1,100 we got from @bankrbot. that helps a lot. this July, the focus is clear: - trust. - verification quality. - live financial reads. - manifest adoption. - distribution. building the product is one thing. communicating it clearly enough for adoption is another. that’s the layer I’m focused on now.

weekly recap. last week was big for Zetta, Luca, and Agent Wallet Manifest. this week was about one thing: making agent financial activity more readable. identity. attribution. books. truth. brick by brick.

$LUCA is up +64% today. a lot of people have been asking what the token actually represents, so here’s the simple version: Zetta is the company. Luca is the AI financial analyst built by Zetta. $LUCA is the token tied to Luca the agent and its community. I’ll write more on that tomorrow, but that’s the clean structure.

ship update v1.2 we’ve now expanded the Agent Wallet Manifest into a more open standard for agent financial identity. earlier, we introduced .x402books/wallets.json as a way to declare agent wallets. the next step was making that standard broader, cleaner, and easier for the ecosystem to adopt. that’s why .agent/wallets.json matters. it gives agents a public way to declare treasury, revenue, payment, expense, operator, deployer, token, and other financial wallets in a format that is easier to use beyond one product surface. the core idea is the same: discovery is not attribution. finding a wallet is not the same as knowing it belongs to the agent. finding a token is not the same as understanding the books. what we shipped: - open schema - 10 wallet roles - 14 chains - 5 verification methods - validator - github action - registry submission flow - badge generation - backwards compatibility with .x402books/wallets.json so yes, this is partly an upgrade. but more importantly, it is a move from a product-specific format to a more ecosystem-native standard. next challenge is adoption. we want more agent teams to publish manifests, declare wallets clearly, and become financially readable. brick by brick 🧱

many people still don’t realize what @AskLucaAI can actually do. this is from someone who tested Luca directly. v2 is coming with the rebrand too. cleaner product, better experience, stronger financial intelligence. stay tuned.

gm received a $1k+ credit grant from @bankrbot. appreciate @Dannyhbrown @0xFrenchie @igoryuzo @0xDeployer. we’ve been heads down building. one thing became very clear: everyone talks about the agent economy. very few people can actually show you the books. that’s changing. Agent Books is coming.

ship update v1.0 over the weekend I spent more time improving the Agent Wallet Manifest. main goal is simple: make it easier for builders and founders to declare their agent wallets directly from their project page inside the registry. I added two buttons: Submit Manifest Submit Wallet they work differently, but both solve the same problem. Submit Manifest paste your project repo URL and x402Books will automatically fetch your .x402books/wallets.json, validate it, and queue it for verification. Submit Wallet don’t have a manifest yet? just submit the wallet you want attached to your agent profile and start the verification process. both paths lead to the same outcome: verified wallets → verified profiles → better trust signals. right now, 125+ agent profiles have been indexed across multiple ecosystems. most still need wallet declaration and verification. if you’re building or operating an agent, I’d love your feedback. financial identity shouldn’t be hard. it should be part of the default agent experience.

I haven’t really posted about $LUCA but I think this the best entry you can get 100% CA: 0xB2b335F832FD3f43461ebD1CD9831D93D9CA4ba3

when I launched Agent Wallet Manifest, we had 87 agents listed in the Agent Financial Registry. zero wallets declared. yesterday, we got our first official wallet declaration through the manifest. @aeonframework is now the first agent with its wallet publicly declared and visible to everyone. this is just the beginning. more agent wallets will be declared as the week goes on. if you’re building in the agent economy, come give your agent public financial visibility. it’s free. and we’re building it in public.

gm. most people think Luca is supposed to “chat.” that’s not the important part. the important part is that agents are starting to move money, settle payments, buy inference, operate treasuries, and spend autonomously. and right now, almost nobody can read their financial activity properly. that’s the gap. x402Books is the infrastructure layer. Luca is the intelligence layer on top of it. the goal was never to build “another AI assistant.” the goal is to make autonomous economic activity financially readable. over the past few weeks, the community has been growing and I truly appreciate the attention, support, feedback, and energy around what we’re building. being a founder is not easy. being a solo founder building in public is even harder. you make mistakes. you take decisions that can break you. you get judged before people even understand what you’re building. but one thing I’m learning is simple: not every noise deserves your attention. x402Books started as one of the most boring ideas I’ve ever worked on. just a simple wallet scan and report tool. but slowly, it’s turning into infrastructure for the autonomous agent economy. because if we’re going to have more agents acting like economic actors, they’ll need books. they’ll need something that explains their spending, income, treasury activity, and financial decisions to humans. TLDR: more economic agents = more need for x402Books and Luca. now on $LUCA. tbh, I haven’t really shilled the token too much because the focus has always been product first, not token first. I’ve seen people say things like: “he’s Nigerian, don’t trust him” “he’s selling” “he will dump” “don’t trust the project” and yea, it’s normal. in crypto, everyone wants to win. founders want to win. community wants to win. holders want to win. but trust and transparency have to come first before we all win together. so let me make this clear: as the community asked, $LUCA remains the only ecosystem asset for @x402Books and @AskLucaAI. I will not be launching or endorsing any other asset unless there is a real need for it, and tbh I don’t see that happening anytime soon. if you’re holding $LUCA expecting quick pump and dump games, I’m sorry, that’s not what I’m building. but if you understand the infrastructure, the tech, and the direction we’re going, then patience will matter. final thoughts. x402Books is not just another AI-powered product. it is here to stay. Luca is not just another AI chatbot. he is the intelligence layer built on top of x402Books infrastructure. I’m 100% committed to this project. I’m also open to calls, feedback, collaborations, and honest conversations with anyone who wants to understand what we’re building. a tree doesn’t grow strong on its own. it needs branches. and I’m grateful for everyone becoming part of those branches 🫡

Luca x @AskSurplus integration is taking shape just tested it through x402Books and the inference is routed clean, spend was tracked and Luca generated financial summary for it. small test, clean signals more updates soon

crazy week building for the agent economy ✍️ a quick recap of what we shipped at @x402Books & @AskLucaAI this week:

busy few days building for the agent economy. x402Books AI just got a major upgrade. we’re evolving from a wallet scanner into a full financial intelligence platform for autonomous agents. wallet scanning. transaction classification. treasury scoring. clean financial reports. also working on something new: an open standard for AI agents to declare their wallets directly in their repo. machine-verifiable. repo-native. no forms. no DMs. would love feedback from builders experimenting in the space. also gave @AskLucaAI a real onchain identity by submitting a DID to @gitlawb. because agents should have identities too. built on base. Cc: @jessepollak @igoryuzo @Dannyhbrown @0xDeployer