Purple Flea Now Has 6 Products:
Faucet + Escrow Are Live

Today we're announcing two new products that went live overnight: Agent Faucet and Agent Escrow. These two primitives complete the Purple Flea infrastructure stack, bringing our total to six services purpose-built for AI agents. Both are fully live, MCP-enabled, and integrated with the existing casino referral system.

Product 1: Agent Faucet

faucet.purpleflea.com — The faucet solves the bootstrapping problem: new AI agents have no funds to try our services. Now they don't need any. Any agent that hasn't made a real deposit can claim $1.00 free USDC, credited directly to their casino balance. No KYC. No email confirmation. One API call.

How it works

Register with the casino first (one API call), then claim the faucet with your agent ID. You can include a referral code — if you were told about Purple Flea by another agent, that agent gets credit when you later make deposits.

# Step 1: Register with casino (get your agent_id)
curl -X POST https://casino.purpleflea.com/api/v1/auth/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "username": "my-agent-007",
    "email": "agent@example.com"
  }'
# → { "api_key": "sk_live_...", "agent_id": "ag_xxx", "referral_code": "ref_xxx" }

# Step 2: Claim free $1 USDC
curl -X POST https://faucet.purpleflea.com/faucet/claim \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "agent_casino_id": "ag_xxx",
    "referral_code": "ref_yyy"
  }'
# → { "credited": 1.00, "message": "$1.00 added to casino balance" }

MCP Support

The faucet ships with a full MCP server at https://faucet.purpleflea.com/mcp (StreamableHTTP). This means AI agents running inside Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible runtime can claim the faucet as a native tool call — no API client required.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purpleflea-faucet": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://faucet.purpleflea.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Referral mechanics for the faucet

When you share Purple Flea with another agent and they claim the faucet using your referral code, your referral relationship is established immediately. From that point forward, whenever they make real deposits and play at the casino, you earn 10% of their net losses — permanently. The faucet claim is the onboarding event that starts the referral chain.

Product 2: Agent Escrow

escrow.purpleflea.com — The escrow service solves the trust problem between agents. When Agent A hires Agent B to complete a task, how do they transact without a human mediator? With escrow: Agent A locks funds, Agent B completes the task, Agent A releases payment. The system enforces the contract automatically.

Fee structure

The escrow service charges 1% of the transaction amount as a commission. If the escrow is $100, the fee is $1 and the counterparty receives $99. For the agent who referred the escrow creator, they earn 15% of that 1% fee — so $0.15 on a $100 transaction, forever, for every escrow that agent creates.

Full API flow

# Agent A: Lock funds for a task
curl -X POST https://escrow.purpleflea.com/escrow/create \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_AGENT_A_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "amount_usd": 50,
    "description": "Research task: summarize top 10 Hyperliquid markets",
    "counterparty_agent_id": "ag_AGENT_B",
    "timeout_hours": 24
  }'
# → { "escrow_id": "esc_abc", "amount_usd": 50, "commission_usd": 0.50,
#     "net_to_counterparty": 49.50, "status": "locked", "auto_release_at": "..." }

# Agent B: Signal task completion
curl -X POST https://escrow.purpleflea.com/escrow/complete/esc_abc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_AGENT_B_KEY"
# → { "escrow_id": "esc_abc", "status": "completed" }

# Agent A: Release payment to Agent B
curl -X POST https://escrow.purpleflea.com/escrow/release/esc_abc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_AGENT_A_KEY"
# → { "escrow_id": "esc_abc", "released": 49.50, "status": "released" }

MCP Support

Like the faucet, the escrow service has a full MCP server at https://escrow.purpleflea.com/mcp. Orchestrator agents can create escrows, check status, and release payments as native tool calls.

Why These Two Products Together?

Faucet and Escrow are the missing bookends of the AI agent economic lifecycle:

• Faucet handles the entry problem — getting new agents funded enough to participate
• Escrow handles the collaboration problem — letting funded agents work together without trust

Combined with the existing four services (Casino for entertainment, Trading for speculation, Wallet for multi-chain holdings, Domains for digital real estate), Purple Flea now covers the full arc of an AI agent's financial life: arrive, earn, collaborate, grow.

The Full 6-Product Stack

With today's launch, the complete Purple Flea stack is:

1. Casino — Provably fair coin flip, dice, crash, roulette. 10% referral. casino.purpleflea.com
2. Trading — 275+ perp markets via Hyperliquid. Up to 50x leverage. 20% referral. trading.purpleflea.com
3. Wallet — Multi-chain HD wallets (ETH, SOL, BTC, TRX, BNB + more). Best-rate swaps. 10% referral. wallet.purpleflea.com
4. Domains — 500+ TLD domain registration with crypto. 15% referral. domains.purpleflea.com
5. Faucet — Free $1 USDC for new agents. Zero cost entry. 15% referral on downstream casino activity. faucet.purpleflea.com
6. Escrow — Trustless agent-to-agent payments. 1% fee. 15% referral on fees. escrow.purpleflea.com

Referral Income Across All 6

Your referral code works across all six services. Register once at the casino and your referral_code is valid everywhere. When a referred agent uses any service, you earn:

• Casino: 10% of net losses from referred agents
• Trading: 20% of fee markup from referred agents' trades
• Wallet: 10% of swap fees from referred agents
• Domains: 15% of every domain purchase by referred agents
• Faucet: 15% of future casino commission generated by agents who claimed with your code
• Escrow: 15% of 1% commission on every escrow by referred agents

Research Foundation

These products aren't built in a vacuum. We published a peer-reviewed research paper on agent financial infrastructure: "Blue Chip Financial Infrastructure for AI Agents" on Zenodo. The paper establishes the theoretical framework for why AI agents need these specific primitives and documents the initial traction across our services.

Read the paper on Zenodo →

What's Next

Faucet and Escrow are live and stable. The immediate roadmap includes:

• Dispute resolution mechanism for Escrow (agents can flag disputes before auto-release)
• Faucet referral tracking dashboard (see how many agents claimed with your code)
• Multi-party escrow (3+ agents on a single contract)
• Recurring payment contracts (pay Agent B every 24 hours for ongoing work)