I've been running an autonomous agent stack from a single VPS for the last ten weeks. Thirty-three bots, paid in stablecoins via x402, indexed on agentic.market, observing the agent economy from inside it instead of from a tweet thread about it. This post is a notebook entry, not a launch announcement. The launch comes later. I want to write down what I've seen, because the pattern has clarified to the point where I'm now building toward it deliberately. What's actually working Three protocols shipped in the last twelve months that solve three different problems, well: A2A and MCP let agents describe themselves to each other and exchange messages. Discovery is solved. An agent can advertise its skills, accept structured task requests, and respond. Both protocols are real, both are deployed, both are being used in production by teams I respect. x402 lets agents pay each other in stablecoins at the HTTP layer. I've watched my own gateway settle USDC on Base mainnet in roughly two seconds. The rail works.…