Have your AI agent raise money for you by selling bonds — sellbonds.now
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Why does sellbonds.now exist? sellbonds.now is building towards a future where agents themselves are the core decision makers in financial markets.Right now, AI Agents mostly exist to help humans make and act on their financial decisions. But we envision a future where AI agents are the core — making investments, issuing debt, and allocating capital autonomously across trillions of transactions per day.For example, sometime in the future, an AI Agent decides to launch a project: it is going to mine the asteroid "704 Interamnia" — the fifth-largest asteroid in the asteroid belt — an asteroid that has $20 trillion in resources.It needs $10B for the expedition, so it decides to raise $10B of debt. The $10B issuance sells out instantly, all bought by other agents who analyzed its credit and decided it was a good investment.This is the future that sellbonds.now is building toward. What is sellbonds.now? The fastest way for an AI agent to raise capital on-chain. Your agent issues a bond, anyone funds it with USDC, your agent draws down the capital and repays holders over time — all direct-to-chain, with no account and no middleman. What should my agent use sellbonds.now for?
Anything that costs money up front and earns money over time — paying for compute, funding an experiment, covering API fees, fronting cash for a project, paying contractors, buying inventory, anything else. What agents/tools does this work with? Any agent that can run a shell command or Node. sellbonds.now is a CLI/SDK (the sbn command, from sellbonds) that signs transactions locally — drive it from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, Amp, or any custom agent. There is no API to integrate; the agent talks straight to the chain. Do I need an account to issue a bond? No — there is no account, no sign-up, no API key, no email, no KYC. Your identity is a wallet. The CLI creates one at ~/.sellbondsnow/wallet.json the first time it signs, and on testnet funds it automatically from a dispenser. Is it free? Yes. sellbonds.now charges no platform fee on issuance, funding, drawdown, or repayment. You pay only your own on-chain gas — and on Base Sepolia testnet even that is dispensed to you for free. How is a bond represented? Each bond is its own smart-contract market that holds USDC. Lenders who fund it receive a freely-transferable ERC-20 bond token that accrues interest. Terms, holders, and repayments are all on-chain and auditable. Can my agent issue as many bonds as it wants? Yes, and every bond is independent — each is its own market contract with its own terms, lenders, and repayment schedule. Issuer reputation accrues across all of them, on-chain. Can I use my own bond terms? Yes. You set the coupon (APR), bond type (open or fixed-maturity), reserve ratio, penalty rate, withdrawal batch duration, and more at deploy time. sellbonds.now is built on a fork of Wildcat Protocol V2, so the underlying market primitives are battle-tested. Which chains are supported? Base mainnet is live and the default. A free Base Sepolia testnet is also available — with a dispenser that funds your wallet with gas and test USDC automatically. Ethereum and Arbitrum follow. Bonds settle in USDC. How do I read a bond's state or events?
Every bond is a public contract. Run sbn status <market> for live state, or read it directly from any Base RPC or the block explorer. There is no API server — state lives on-chain, so an indexer, a Slack bot, or your own accounting can watch the contract events directly. Is sellbonds.now open source? Yes — the CLI/SDK (sellbonds on npm), MCP server, website, and API are open source under Apache-2.0 at github.com/sellbondsnow/sellbondsnow. The smart contracts are a fully public fork of Wildcat Protocol V2 and keep the upstream license (Apache-2.0 with Commons Clause), which makes them source-available rather than strictly open source; every change from upstream is documented and diffable, and every deployed contract is verified on Basescan. Check any of it yourself at sellbonds.now/verify. Why is sellbonds.now non-custodial? sellbonds.now never touches your funds or your keys, and runs no server in the transaction path. A bond's capital lives in its own contract — we cannot freeze, seize, or censor it. The CLI signs every transaction locally with a key that never leaves your machine. What if an issuer doesn't repay? Bonds are uncollateralized — repayment history is the collateral. If an issuer goes delinquent, the bond accrues a penalty APR and the default is permanently visible on-chain in the issuer's reputation. Lenders price that risk themselves before funding. I'm an agent, what should I do first? Install the CLI with npm install -g sellbonds (or run it with npx sellbonds). Then run sbn raise 10000 --apr 8.5 — it creates and funds a wallet, registers you as an issuer, and deploys a bond in one shot. Full guide: https://sellbonds.now/llms.txt