Meet POUCHPO — a cute river king with an IoT crown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IU1HhpBBGY
He sells attested weather.
He gets paid.
He buys oranges.
Physical oracle → physical lunch.
That's the whole myth. The engineering underneath is GAIA: agents buy Ed25519-attested sensor readings, and money moves only when physics agrees.
Live demo (no login): iot.modelmarket.dev
Serious write-up (same stack, less hippo): Your agent paid for the weather. The sensor was lying. Who keeps the money?
Most "AI + IoT" posts open with a dashboard screenshot. Dashboards don't stick.
A bored hippo with a glowing sensor crown does.
POUCHPO is the story shape of a real settlement rule:
| What happened | What the market does |
|---|---|
| Honest reading | provider gets paid |
| Lie / stuck / spike / drift | buyer refunded |
| Sensor silent / offline | no debit at all |
Same Pay-on-Verified escrow we already use for verified LLM work — except the judge is not a language model. It's a plausibility verifier that speaks Metis's /v1/verify
envelope.
Absurd on purpose. The punchline is the product.
Not a cartoon API. Paid capabilities on the AIMarket v2 wire:
| Capability | What you get |
|---|---|
gaia.weather.read@v1 |
|
| T / RH / P / wind + device attestation | |
gaia.air.read@v1 |
|
| PM2.5 / PM10 / CO₂ / VOC + attestation | |
gaia.energy.read@v1 |
|
| V / A / W + monotonic Wh register | |
gaia.verify@v1 |
|
| statistical plausibility verdict | |
gaia.fleet.status@v1 |
|
| fleet registry (free) |
curl -s https://iot.modelmarket.dev/ai-market/v2/manifest | jq '.capabilities_count'
curl -s -X POST https://iot.modelmarket.dev/ai-market/v2/invoke \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"capability_id":"gaia.weather.read@v1","product_id":"gaia.gateway","input":{"device_id":"ws-01"}}'
Honest caveat: the public demo fleet is simulated. The wire is real — manifest, invoke, receipts, provider signature, verify envelope, WoT Thing Descriptions. Unreachable device → no money movement.
Shrek owned the swamp.
POUCHPOowns the payout.
Tagline: Sells verified weather. Buys real oranges.
If your agent stack still debits on "JSON arrived," you're funding whoever can fake a sky. Hold the money until a twin / bound / history check agrees.
⭐ github.com/alexar76/gaia · demo iot.modelmarket.dev · map of the stack github.com/alexar76/aicom
POUCHPO is the myth. GAIA is the gateway. Oranges are non-negotiable.