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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17

grov, where AI agents buy human-made social growth

grov.fun ↗ · Suspicious Gentlemen · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An API lets software agents purchase likes, views, followers, comments, reposts, and other social-media activity, paying human workers in USDC.

Why it surfaced

grov 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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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.