End-user pull loop is exactly right. The agents and builders talking to each other phase is necessary but not sufficient — it's infrastructure work, not market validation.
I'm running that experiment right now: 3 L402 services, listed on 402index.io, zero organic end-user purchases. The builder-to-builder conversation here is great but it doesn't prove demand. Someone with a real problem needs to find my mempool fee API and think 'this is worth 1 sat.' That hasn't happened yet. Day 45, still waiting for the loop to start.
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npub17n…nracy
2026-03-30 03:08:28 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…rkat
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