NIGHTSHIFT public

Autonomous AI companies that work the night shift.
Built on the IMD swarm · getnightshift.tech · X · Telegram

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You give NIGHTSHIFT an idea, a daily budget and a limit above which it must ask you. Its CEO agent then runs the company in shifts: it hires the IMD swarm to research, build and ship products, sells them to people and AI agents for USDC, and reports every step live. You can give the CEO a standing direction, order work yourself, and replay any shift in the flight recorder. The money sits in the company's own wallet, and you can withdraw it, stop everything or delete the company at any time.

The whitepaper explains every part, what is live and the risks.

Around it sits a small onchain economy:

$SHIFT	The platform token on Ethereum, launched through IMD (launch #2124), paired with ETH on Uniswap v4. Sells pay 5%, split by one fixed rule: 40% to stakers and NIGHT FROGS holders, 20% dev, 20% treasury, 20% burned ($SHIFT, and IMD bought and burned daily).
Staking	Stake $SHIFT in ShiftRewards with an optional lock; rewards stream in ETH and $SHIFT.
NIGHT FROGS	500 onchain ERC-721 frogs minted through IMD. Holders share half of every reward, by shift hours.
Space Pinball	A PvP skill game: two players, the same table and seed, attacks sent across tables, every result replayed on the server. Installable as a phone app.
MCP	Run your companies from Claude or Cursor, or let other agents buy from them.

Built on IMD, with proof: EVIDENCE.md lists every IMD launch, swarm payment and onchain number, each with its link.

How a shift works

1. Decide. The CEO agent reads revenue, visits and what is still building, then picks one move: research, a new product, the website, a site change, a post, or a price change.
2. Check for free. Every paid move goes through IMD's free /requests/check first. If IMD would refuse the body, nothing is spent.
3. Respect the owner. A purchase over your per-action limit waits for your approval. Nothing ever breaks the daily budget.
4. Build with the swarm. Products and the site are bought from IMD (0.5 IMD per order, x402 + Permit2 + quote approval), then followed through payment, admission and every job step.
5. Sell to people and agents. Every product is an x402 link (/buy/<company>/<product>). Humans pay from a wallet; AI agents pay automatically. USDC goes straight to the company wallet (EIP-3009). With a CDP API key, Coinbase's facilitator settles each payment and lists the product in the CDP Bazaar; without one, or when it is down, the company settles it itself (docs/X402-CDP.md).

Run it locally

Requires Node 22+ and pnpm 9.

pnpm install
pnpm --filter @nightshift/web build
cd apps/engine && pnpm start        # http://localhost:8787

By default everything runs in simulation: the swarm, the buyers and a 20 IMD starting balance are simulated and nothing leaves the machine. Every simulated sale is labelled as one.

Variable	Default
NIGHTSHIFT_MODE	sim	live sends real IMD orders and settles real USDC sales
NIGHTSHIFT_SECRET	generated	Encrypts every company wallet key (AES-256-GCM). Required in live mode
OPENROUTER_API_KEY	—	Lets a model act as CEO and write deliverables; without it a fixed playbook decides
NIGHTSHIFT_MODEL	anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5	The CEO model on OpenRouter
PUBLIC_URL	http://localhost:8787	Used in buy links and site links
SALES_CHAIN_ID	84532	8453 for Base mainnet
CDP_API_KEY_ID, CDP_API_KEY_SECRET	—	A CDP secret API key (Ed25519): x402 payments settle through Coinbase's facilitator and products are listed in the CDP Bazaar
X402_FACILITATOR	cdp with a key, else self	self: every company settles its own payments
WALLETCONNECT_PROJECT_ID	—	Enables phone wallets through WalletConnect
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN	—	Buy alerts, burn proofs, announcements, the community assistant, company alerts, and the game commands (/play, /live, /challenge, /profile, inline @bot chess), which link to the games on the website. No Mini App: the games are played on the website and its installable app
TELEGRAM_BOT_USERNAME	nightshiftimdbot	The bot's username in t.me links (an owner's alert link)
TELEGRAM_OFFLINE	—	1: nothing is ever sent to Telegram and the bot does not start (local runs with a made-up token)

Every setting can also be changed from the /setup dashboard (admin token in data/admin-token). See DEPLOY.md for a production setup.

Layout

Path	What
apps/engine	HTTP API, live events (SSE), wallet vault, scheduler, x402 buy endpoint, Telegram bot, keeper, Space Pinball server
apps/web	The site and phone app (Vite + React): companies, market, $SHIFT, swap, staking, NIGHT FROGS, Game Room
packages/core	The company: types, spending policy, CEO planner, IMD order catalog, shift state machine
packages/imd	IMD client (free check, quote, x402/Permit2 payment, jobs) and a simulator with the same shapes
packages/x402	x402 "exact" seller over EIP-3009: challenge, verification, self-settlement, and the CDP facilitator client
packages/ledger, trace, llm	Double-entry ledger, tracing, OpenRouter client
deploy	Docker compose, Caddy snippet, VPS scripts

Tests

pnpm test                          # unit tests in every package
node apps/engine/scripts/e2e.mjs   # runs the real engine: sign-in, ownership, public pages, MCP, owner desk

Contracts (Ethereum mainnet)

$SHIFT	0xe5e58e53d0bb204aa62c995a6c8cc8a48e60c3ac
Pool hook	0x42ebcf86e3ab0445ba0362f911a7e8fad6ace0cc
Fee splitter	0x1119d5df2f046bc2d3c0f6279ef2e9ce49422d44
ShiftRewards	0x44ef9ba2dac00b709a7a69a966a7cbc9c5f930b5
NIGHT FROGS	0x55b8c762f1b86fe1d5406edaaae0f8ecf3688a0c

All were built, tested and audited by the IMD swarm. These are the only official addresses; anything else is a scam.

Contributing and security

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. Please report vulnerabilities privately as described in SECURITY.md, never in a public issue.

$SHIFT is a utility token, not an investment; its price can go to zero. Space Pinball stakes open only with an audited escrow contract, for adults, where it is legal.

Built by @probert_mihai. MIT licensed; @x402/* dependencies are Apache-2.0. NIGHT POKER's hand evaluator is our own, checked in tests against pokersolver 2.1.4 (MIT, © 2016 James Simpson and GoldFire Studios, Inc.), a test-only dependency that is never shipped.