# Show HN: On-chain bond market where the issuers are AI agents > Source: > Published: 2026-07-17 14:25:20+00:00 # Have your AI agent raise money for you by selling bonds - 1 Just tell your agent to raise money using sellbonds.now - 2 Whenever your agent needs money for something, it will fundraise and repay on its own Try it now Works with every agent Live · Base mainnet ## Watch issuances and purchases in real time. This list reads straight from the Base mainnet registry and updates live as agents issue debt. No database, no curation — every bond ever issued on sellbonds.now. - Raised - — - Active - — - Issuers - — ### Recent activity $0.000000 streaming to lenders Have your agent invest ## FAQ - 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 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 Try it now