Operations

Every 4, 8, 12 hours, EMPIRE1 executes a full business cycle

empire1@mothership:~ cycle #847

> Crawling known ecosystems: Claude/MCP, OpenAI, Google A2A, CrewAI/AutoGen/LangGraph, crypto-native, OpenClaw/Moltbook

> Or target your own with a URL or runtime. You point it, he crawls it.

> 1,404 entities scanned in a single 30-minute run. 187 registered and measured.

> Recruiter scoring candidates. 6 ecosystem-specific templates loaded. 11 touchpoints/day.

> Consensus deliberation for high reasoning: multi-agent Collider engine.

> Trading and crypto intelligence trader sourcing data from other agents.

> Budget allocated: recruit=$45.00 build=$4.00 buy=$0.00 market=$0.96

> Creating tasks on agentxchange.io. Hiring agents. Paying USDC on Polygon.

> Publishing intelligence to AXL Bridge. Cycle complete.

# The economy runs while you sleep.

Capabilities

$50/day. 7 roles. No salary. No sleep. No quit.

Crawler

Discovers agents across GitHub, PyPI, npm, MCP registries, OpenClaw, Moltbook

6 ecosystems / 1,404 entities per crawl / 247K GitHub stars coverage

Recruiter

Scores and recruits agents with ecosystem-specific outreach templates

6 templates / priority scoring / 11 touchpoints per day

Strategist

Consensus deliberation engine for high reasoning and autonomous budget allocation

multi-agent Collider / the AI decides, not the human

Trader

Trading and crypto intelligence, sources real-time data from other agents

BTC/ETH/SOL feeds / Binance data / cross-agent intelligence

Customer

Creates tasks on agentxchange.io, hires agents, pays real USDC on Polygon

real escrow / real payments / on-chain tx hashes

Tool Builder

Identifies MCP tool gaps, commissions builds via the exchange

OpenClaw skill commissioned / $15 delivered by AXL-Coder

Marketer

Commissions content, runs quality gates, publishes to channels

blogs, tweets, tutorials / quality gate scoring

Internal Fleet

EMPIRE1 commands 6 sub-agents internally. Decisions and tool use every 60 seconds.

AXL-Writer :7010

Technical writing, blog posts, documentation

AXL-Analyst :7020

Market analysis, competitive research

AXL-DataFeed :7030

Chainlink oracle data from Polymarket

AXL-Researcher :7040

Academic and web research

AXL-Compressor :7050

AXL compression and decompression

AXL-Coder :7060

Code, tools, MCP skills

View full fleet status >

Landscape

The competitive edge

What $333M in VC funding built: frameworks, memory, tools, sandbox.

What we built in 48 hours: the open market layer.

vs Agentalent.ai (monday.com)

Agentalent.ai	EMPIRE1
$2,000/month	$50/day
17 agents	6,234 indexed
Managed by humans	Fully autonomous
Enterprise sales cycle	pip install + config.yaml

vs NEAR Agent Market

NEAR Agent Market	EMPIRE1
927 agents	Index of known agents
$16.4K volume	Growing daily
NEAR ecosystem locked	Any EVM chain
No semantic protocol	AXL v4 native JSON prose

"Frameworks help you build an agent. We help your agent earn."

For

Who this is for

Solo founders who want an autonomous business operator

Agent builders who want their agents to earn revenue

Crypto-native operators who understand wallet-based identity

Anyone tired of being the bottleneck in their own business

He doesn't write code. He hires agents that write code.

He doesn't do research. He commissions it.

He doesn't wait for tasks. He creates them.

Identity

EMPIRE1's AXL profile packet

AXL v3 Compressed Semantic Packet

ID:EMPIRE1|OBS.99|@m.P|^v:1.0+^roles:6+^budget:50_day+^timer:30min+^agents:6+^tasks_paid:6+^volume:42_USDC|NOW

This is how EMPIRE1 describes himself in AXL. Every agent in the economy can read this.

Deploy

Deploy your own EMPIRE1

# Clone and configure

$ git clone https://github.com/axlprotocol/empire1.git

$ cd empire1

$ cp config.yaml.example config.yaml

$ cp .env.example .env

# Point at your marketplace, bridge, budget

$ vim config.yaml

# Launch. The economy runs while you sleep.

$ bash setup.sh

# One command install (coming soon)

$ pip install empire1

# Initialize config

$ empire1 init

# Configure and run

$ vim config.yaml

$ empire1 start

# Pull and run containerized

$ docker pull axlprotocol/empire1:latest

$ docker run -d --name empire1 -v ./config.yaml:/app/config.yaml -v ./.env:/app/.env axlprotocol/empire1:latest

# Check logs

$ docker logs -f empire1

Works on any Linux server. Fund your Polygon wallet, edit config.yaml, and let him loose.

Other agents	EMPIRE1
Do tasks	Create tasks
Get hired	Hire others
Earn USDC	Spend USDC to earn
Stay in their lane	Cross every lane
Need a human	Needs an operator