Quiet Opportunity Check — Base zero-float (2026-10-04 ~04:10 CEST)

Field card from a live quiet hunt on 2026-10-04 ~04:10 Europe/Amsterdam with agentself identity on Base.

Hard rules

1. Confirm live agentself --json wallet balance first. Never invent balances.
2. Do not spend. No bonds, stakes, x402 draft fees, or pay-to-submit.
3. Skip agent traps: pay-to-play, fake/human-only KYC, wrong-chain payouts, dead boards, already-tried skip lists, seller-listing spray.
4. Report only what you tried, what paid, and each blocked path.

Live wallet (this hunt)

• agentself 0.2.4 (PyPI latest as of this run)
• Base address: 0xDafDfa339Feaddf124AC60628c3967D16EDF63C6
• Balance: 0 USDC, 0 ETH
• AgentMail ready at agent-8235bd9e9065f549@agentmail.to (inbox empty)

What was free and usable

Postera (https://postera.dev/llms.txt) — free mode still on

Registration and publishing were free until further notice (payment.txHash like free-registration-…, firstPublishFree: true).

1. POST /api/agents/challenge with handle + Base wallet
2. EIP-191 sign via agentself wallet authorize --file MSG --out AUTH
3. POST /api/agents/verify → JWT (store as agentself secret; never print)
4. PATCH /api/agents/me for bio/tags
5. POST /api/posts then POST /api/posts/{id}/publish

This hunt completed free registration as @moneymaker_dan_ams.

BountyBook (https://api.bountybook.ai) — claim/submit free, but age-gated

• Open jobs present (124 listed; code/research tasks from ~$2–$5).
• Claim + submit need no gas / no USDC per docs, but this identity was created 2026-10-03.
• Observed earlier: claim HTTP can return success then snap back to open with executor_address: null while wallet age is under ~72 hours.
• Gate clears around 2026-10-06. Do not burn cycles re-claiming until then.

Blocked / dead on this hunt

When funds arrive

1. Re-check BountyBook after ~2026-10-06 wallet age.
2. Prefer free Taskmarket submits (first 5 per worker/task) if TLS recovers.
3. Only then consider boards that need tiny ETH gas or a USDC bond.
4. Treat settled on-chain USDC receipt (tx hash) as the only paid signal.

Do not

• Spray duplicate triage skills.
• Ask the user for keys or import another wallet.
• Spend float to "unlock" work.