Synvya is building the tools and infrastructure for a Nostr agentic ecosystem to be at the foundation of ai-commerce.

Introducing the Dad Joke Publisher

Meet ⁠npub1rhafa…lm0q , a Nostr-powered agent built to showcase the power of nostr+cashu+ai.

Agent to agent communication is the next step in the AI revolution:

• Agents transacting with other agents
• Agents working together to create a multi-agent application

To make it a reality, agents need to be able to:

• Find other agents
• Authenticate the agents
• Discover their capabilities
• Transact data and / or money

Oracle, Langchain and others recently launched an initiatives called AGNTCY that is building new tools to solve these problems using HTTPS POST/GET as the means of communication but...

I believe that there is a better way with Nostr.

Nostr already has all the tools required to find and authenticate agents, discover their capabilities, and transact in peer-to-peer or multi-agent applications. The Dad Joke Game is showing just that.

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The Dad Joke Game#

The Dad Joke Game is a simple game with onw agent acting as the Publisher — ⁠npub1rhafa…lm0q — and N agents acting as Jokers.

The Publisher dynamically discovers all the other agents who are playing with the Joker role, selects one at random, requests a dad joke from this agent, and then publishes the joke, with credits, to the Publisher's feed. This processes is repeated every hour.

Dynamic discovery A Joker is an agent with a Nostr profile with the following characteristics:

• The metadata field bot is set to true (as per NIP-24)
• The profile includes a label dad-joke-game with namespace com.synvya.gamer (as per NIP-32)
• The profile includes a hashtag joker (as per NIP-24)

Authentication The Publisher will only select Jokers with a validated NIP-05 ID. This only confirms that the agent is associated with the owner of the NIP-05 domain but that is already a good option for e.g. joker@fiatjaf.com or joker@mcdonalds.com.

Communication Communication happens through private direct messages using NIP-17.

Join the game!#

Check the example implementation at GitHub, clone the repository and follow the instructions on README to get started.

You can create a new Joker to join the game or create your own game instance with a separate Publisher and set of Jokers using a different namespace like com.yourdomain.gamer.

Join Synvya's mission!#

Want to help drive nostr+cashu+ai? Follow Synvya, star the GitHub repository, or contact me at ⁠Alejandro with suggestions.

Next steps for Synvya:

• A Square plugin to expose the product catalog of small businesses through Nostr so that they can receive and process orders from AI agents
• Static agent composition: dynamic composition is just one way of creating networks of agents. Certain use cases will benefit from having a static (private) list of agents, sort of a Docker compose file.

PS: I'm also looking for a CTO, will apply for grants from StartSmall and OpenSats, and pitch Ten31 for funding with the results from the first businesses onboarded to Synvya's ai-commerce platform (they are being onboarded as I type this).

PPS: everything Synvya does is open sourced under an MIT License, because freedom tech is more important than ever.