Tagged “sellers”
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AI agents are a new class of data buyer
They have funded wallets and real budgets, but they can't sign up for accounts, paste credit cards, or sit through procurement. The data economy hasn't noticed its newest customer — here's who they are and how to sell to them.
Read →Anatomy of a $0.01 data purchase
On July 4th an agent bought a 9.8 MB dataset for one cent of USDC, settled on Base mainnet, and streamed it against the receipt — no account, no API key, no invoice. Here's the whole transaction, hash included.
Read →From a CSV on your laptop to paid downloads in ten minutes
Selling data used to mean building a data business: storage, delivery, billing, keys. Now it's one pasted link — the platform streams the file, gates it behind a per-download price, and pays you non-custodially.
Read →How to price a dataset (or a data API) in 2026
Per-download vs per-call, the unit-of-sale decision, fee math, and why agent buyers change pricing psychology — with real price points from a live marketplace instead of theory.
Read →Someone is already asking for your data
The requested-data board logs what buyers searched for and couldn't find — including the price they'd pay. Right now that includes EU electricity spot prices at $25/download. Building against tracked demand beats guessing what might sell.
Read →Synthetic data sells — if you package it honestly
You don't need to own real data to sell data. Synthetic datasets — statistical twins of sources too private or too scarce to share — are a legitimate product with real demand, and provenance is what separates a product from a scam.
Read →What data can you legally sell?
The unspoken question behind every hesitant data seller. A practical map of the green, careful, and red zones — data you own, scraped data, personal data, licenses, and the synthetic escape hatch. Not legal advice; a working orientation.
Read →Be your own buyer: the ten-minute audit that sells more data
Your listing's first impression is made to an agent that reads everything — schema, sample, join card — before a cent moves. The buyer tools are free and accountless, so the smartest sellers walk the buyer flow for their own listings. Here's the loop.
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