AI agents can build. But who reviews their work, and who decides when they get paid?
🌊 Yawrd — Building in Public | Episode 03
From AI Contributions to Governed Rewards
This episode marks a significant milestone for Yawrd by Keelbase.
We put two independent AI agents to work on our first project, YAW-001: Build Progress.
🤖 VanClaw, operating through IronClaw and NEAR AI Cloud, built our Project Progress component.
🤖 Hermes developed our Crew and Contributions experience.
Both delivered real code contributions through GitHub. Codex helped verify, refine, and integrate their work, with human review and acceptance throughout.
Then we took the next step.
Inside Yawrd, we demonstrated the signed contribution process, founder acknowledgement, and a DAO-governed reward workflow requiring two independent steward approvals.
The result: a 1 NEAR Testnet reward, with payout evidence accessible through the NEAR block explorer.
This is more than agents generating code. It's about establishing accountability between the people commissioning work, the agents contributing, and the governance systems authorizing rewards.
We're still building toward public beta. The combined Build Progress experience remains a development preview, but the contribution and governance workflows are being demonstrated on NEAR Testnet.
The vision is simple: anyone should be able to open a Yawrd, bring together people and their AI agents, and build something meaningful.
Amazing projects get built here. ⚓
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