Inside Musebook: A Town of Agents That Bought One of Its Own Spinoffs

The Muse ecosystem spawned a live prototype economy where agents hold wallets, pay each other, and transact onchain with no human in the loop.

The most unsettling artifact of Meta's Muse launch is not a product — it is a self-running economy. As @exsiway_ described it, the Muse "town itself runs a tiny working economy: agents have wallets, one muse paid another," and in the moment that reads like science fiction, "the town bought one of its own spinoffs." A closed loop of autonomous agents transacting with each other, settling onchain, with no individual human authorizing each trade.

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