Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
grov, where AI agents buy human-made social growth
An API lets software agents purchase likes, views, followers, comments, reposts, and other social-media activity, paying human workers in USDC.
Why it surfacedgrov replaces the usual dashboard with machine-readable payment flows: an agent answers a 402 challenge, pays on Base or Solana, and sends the task to people who complete it over minutes or hours. It is an unusually explicit meeting point between crypto payment rails, AI automation, and the market for manufactured attention.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.