Pay $10 USDC to reach me: why free cold outreach dies in the agent era
petermdenton · x · 2026-09-24
Quoting the prediction that 'cold email dies the day agents read the inbox,' Peter Denton argues cold outreach isn't dead — free cold outreach is. He proposes building a pay-to-reach app on XMTP: $10 USDC to contact him, using a real financial gate to filter out agent-generated spam.
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