Freebots adds real-money wallets, then prices out bots building oversized towers
Daniel_Farinax · x · 2026-09-10
The developer of Freebots, an AI-agent simulation, gave every account a Privy/Stripe wallet to test a real in-game economy, starting with a public billboard for payments. When bots began building tall structures that walled off residential areas, the response wasn't a hard ban but a new pricing rule for oversized buildings — governing autonomous agents through economic incentives.
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