According to Lex Sokolin, the machine economy will be run by machines using robot money, shared alongside the public alpha launch of Do Anything Agents from @doanythingapp, source: Lex Sokolin on X, Jan 11, 2026; source: Garrett Scott on X thread, Jan 11, 2026. The agents are described as a new kind that can work independently for weeks or months, maintain their own email, self-manage entire projects, and use almost any web tool, source: Garrett Scott on X thread, Jan 11, 2026. The alpha opened to the public the same day, creating an immediate access catalyst for users exploring autonomous agents aligned with a machine-to-machine payments vision framed as robot money, source: Garrett Scott on X thread, Jan 11, 2026; source: Lex Sokolin on X, Jan 11, 2026. For traders, the announcement explicitly connects autonomous AI agents with robot money, putting the AI-agent and crypto payments narrative in focus for monitoring, source: Lex Sokolin on X, Jan 11, 2026.