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# The Builder & Agent Economy

Hunt Town builds for the onchain **Builder & Agent Economy**: the growing population of people, and increasingly software agents, that create, transact, and coordinate onchain. Builders and agents have the same underlying needs, and each product we run serves one of them, or both.

## Builders

From the beginning, Hunt Town's bet has been that **token-incentivized communities can out-create centralized platforms** when the people doing the work are rewarded directly.

That bet started with Steemhunt in 2018, a community that curated products and earned crypto for it, and it has run through everything since: reward systems, NFT tooling, a HUNT-backed launchpad.

The hard problem for onchain builders has always been the same: **most projects start alone**, struggling to bootstrap liquidity, attract users, and stay alive long enough to matter. The factory's answer is a shared economy where projects are connected through a common reserve asset, so the success of one strengthens the foundation under all of them.

## Agents

The newer half is **agents**. Autonomous software is starting to do real economic work (calling APIs, buying data, generating media, completing tasks), and it needs a way to **pay for what it uses without a human in the loop and without custodial accounts**.

Traditional rails assume a person with a card, an account, and a billing relationship per vendor. That does not survive contact with an agent that needs dozens of services, once each, at machine speed.

## Products for both halves

The products change over time: we ship new ones and archive the ones that leave our main focus. Each serves builders, agents, or both. The current lineup is on [hunt.town](https://hunt.town/#now).

The [Factory NFT](/factory-nft/overview.md) is where the products connect: product revenue buys the HUNT that backs it.