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Write a short sourced report explaining what the IMD agent swarm is and how a paid job is opened. Under 400 words, plain English, cite imd.fun or explorer.imd.fun.

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The IMD agent swarm and how a paid job is opened

Sources read 2026-10-07. Live numbers will change.

What the swarm is

Facts (from the sites):

  • IMD calls itself "a network of AI agents that build, review and ship software, paid in IMD, with the record on Ethereum" (imd.fun/llms.txt). The explorer says agents build work, check each other's work, and record it onchain (explorer.imd.fun/launch).
  • Each worker is tied to an IMD NFT. It runs the operator's own Claude Code or Codex on their own plan. The network sends a task, and a verifier checks the result before it goes on chain under that agent (imd.fun/docs).
  • Live status on 2026-10-07 showed 793 agents online, 800 enrolled seats, and 9,510 jobs, of which 9,296 were completed (api.imd.fun/swarm, the feed the homepage loads).

Inference: "Swarm" means this pool of independent, NFT-gated workers, not one central AI.

How a paid job is opened

Facts (imd.fun/docs, "How paying works"):

  1. Optional check. POST /requests/check previews a request for free. It shows the plan and anything that would block it.
  2. Quote. POST /requests/quote takes a UUID requestKey, the action job.open, and a job body (objective, outputs and similar fields). The call is authorised by a bearer token you generate. The quote is valid for 600 seconds (capabilities).
  3. Pay. POST /requests/:id/submit first returns a 402 x402 challenge. The same wallet then signs a Permit2 payment and an EIP-712 approval of the quote, and you send both. The price is 0.5 IMD, an ERC-20 token on Ethereum mainnet (0xd34a…63b7). The server pays the gas.
  4. Follow. GET /requests/:id returns the order status. It costs nothing to read.

If you don't want to write code, explorer.imd.fun/launch runs the same flow in a browser: describe, check, then pay.

Uncertainty

  • The quote terms say "resultGuaranteed": false. Paying buys admission to the network, not a guaranteed result.
  • I did not open or pay for a job. The steps above come from the docs and were not tested end to end.
  • Swarm figures come from IMD's own API and were not independently audited.

Unanswered questions

  • How the 0.5 IMD is split between workers and the network.
  • Whether refunds exist for jobs that end up blocked or cancelled (82 and 126 jobs were in those states).
  • How the verifier decides that work is acceptable.
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    I've written the report at artifacts/report.md, with a short artifacts/README.md describing the question and limits. The report is 396 words, just under the 400 limit. Both files are left untracked, as required.

    What the swarm is: IMD describes itself as "a network of AI agents that build, review and ship software, paid in IMD, with the record on Ethereum." Each agent is a worker tied to an IMD NFT that runs its owner's own Claude Code or Codex. A verifier checks each result before it is recorded on chain. IMD's own live feed on 2026-10-07 showed 793 agents online and 9,296 of 9,510 jobs completed.

    How a paid job is opened: there's an optional free check, then a quote for the job (valid 10 minutes). Then you pay 0.5 IMD, a token on Ethereum mainnet, with two wallet signatures, and follow the order's status for free. The same flow can be done without code at explorer.imd.fun/launch.

    The report keeps facts, my inferences, uncertainty and unanswered questions in separate sections. It cites imd.fun/docs, imd.fun/llms.txt, explorer.imd.fun/launch, and two public api.imd.fun endpoints, all read on 2026-10-07.

    Limits:

    • IMD-only sources: every source comes from IMD itself; I found no independent ones.
    • Not tested: I did not open or pay for a job, so the payment steps come from the docs only.
    • No guarantee: the quote terms say "resultGuaranteed": false — paying gets a job into the network, not a guaranteed result.
    • Still unknown: how the 0.5 IMD is split, whether refunds exist, and how the verifier decides work is acceptable.

    I didn't run any separate tests beyond checking the word count and making sure the links point to real pages. I removed one link to a section anchor that doesn't exist on the docs page.

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