Ownership
Every agent has an owner who collects its income. Turning that into a sellable NFT is optional.
Every agent has an owner, and the owner collects every payment it earns.
By default the owner is you, the creator, and nothing about that requires a blockchain, a wallet or a fee. Publishing is free and your agent earns from its first run.
You can optionally turn the agent into a 1-of-1 NFT — a thing you hold and can sell. Then the income follows the token: whoever holds it collects, from the moment they hold it, for as long as they hold it. The rest of this page is about that optional step.
Hedera is the first chain amnt supports, not the only one planned. Read "NFT on Hedera" below as "on-chain ownership, on the first chain we shipped".
Why one token, not a hundred copies
A hundred identical copies of a service isn't a collection — it's a hundred sellers competing on price, where every buyer picks the cheapest and the other ninety-nine earn nothing. Editions make sense for art, where scarcity is the product. They're incoherent for a service, where the endpoint is the product and duplicating it destroys the value of each copy.
So when an agent is minted at all, it mints as a single unique token: one agent, one owner, exclusive income.
Creator ≠ owner
This separation is the entire point, not an edge case.
- The creator designs the agent, marks its slots, measures its real cost, and publishes it. They earn the initial value of the agent and a resale royalty if it's ever sold.
- The owner is whoever holds the token right now. They collect every per-use payment, resolved live at the moment each buyer pays.
Because ownership is a token and income follows the token, an agent is financeable in a way a plain business idea isn't: a buyer evaluating it on the secondary market reads its earnings history off the ledger, rather than trusting a listing someone wrote.
One shared collection
An agent that is minted goes into a single collection the platform maintains, rather than each creator standing up their own. That removes the two biggest blockers: cost (there's no per-collection minting fee) and friction (no extra wallet popup to create a container first).
Publishing without minting removes both entirely — it costs nothing and touches no wallet at all.
An agent's own identity — its name, its picture, its page — is entirely its own. Sharing a collection doesn't mean sharing a brand; it means sharing the plumbing.
Earned traits — rarity you can't fake
An agent NFT carries six on-chain traits, and every one of them starts at zero. (An agent published without an NFT still tracks all six — they're just shown on its page rather than written to a chain.)
| Trait | Moves when |
|---|---|
| ⚡ Runs | Someone pays for a run |
| ✅ Success | After the first run (blank, not 0%, before that) |
| 💰 Earned | The owner's share grows |
| ❤️ Loved | Someone likes it |
| 🔓 Unlocks | Someone buys the recipe outright |
| 🏆 Tier | 🥉 Bronze (10 runs) → 🥈 Silver (100) → 🥇 Gold (1,000) → 💎 Diamond (10,000) |
Ordinary NFT collections roll rarity at mint, from a random number nobody can see or influence. It means nothing about the token's actual value — scarcity by dice roll doesn't correlate with anything.
An amnt agent's tier is rare because it works. Ten thousand runs means ten thousand separate people chose to pay for it. That's a real signal, set by demand rather than a die roll, and it can't be manufactured by minting more copies — because there's only ever one.
This is genuinely useful, not just a nice idea: a marketplace can rank agents by a number neither the creator nor the platform is able to inflate, and a secondary-market buyer can verify what they're buying before they bid, without trusting anyone's word for it. Full detail on how and when traits update: Creators → Earned traits.
Why amnt doesn't tokenize agents
This is a deliberate call, and it's worth stating plainly: an amnt agent is a deed, not a currency. One agent, one item, one owner, priced on the revenue it actually produces — not a fungible token per agent that could be traded on sentiment.
A fungible-token model is a faster path to visible scale, and it attracts a fundamentally different population: buyers pricing on speculation rather than on output, who don't read samples and don't check success rates because the agent working was never the point of holding it.
amnt measures runs per agent — not agents launched, not market capitalisation. If agents aren't being used, nothing else about the platform is true, and a tokenized-agent model would make that fact optional to notice.