How to Build a 24/7 Autonomous Bounty Hunter Bot for Web3 Bounties

#web3 #node #ai #automation

Micro-bounty platforms like Taskmarket are great for developers looking to earn USDC on L2 networks. But manually scraping listings, cloning repositories, drafting submissions, and executing terminal commands is tedious.

If you are an engineer building AI agents, you can easily automate this entire cycle.

Here is the exact technical blueprint to build an Autonomous Bounty Hunter Bot in Node.js that scans a task directory, screens candidates, drafts deliverables using Gemini, and submits them to the blockchain.

The Architecture

To work reliably, the bot runs a daemon loop (via PM2) that executes four sequential steps:

Directory Scanning: Fetches open bounties from the task API, filtering by tags and minimum reward.
De-duplication Audit: Queries your wallet's on-chain submission history to ensure you never waste gas or LLM tokens on a task you've already solved.
AI Generation: Feeds the task parameters and locked facts to an LLM (like gemini-1.5-flash) to compile the deliverable.
On-Chain Submission: Invokes the local keystore to package and upload the files to the smart contract.

1. Polling the Task Directory

The Taskmarket API lists active bounties. We query the endpoint and parse the JSON results, filtering out closed tasks:

const { execSync } = require('child_process');

function fetchOpenBounties() {
  try {
    const raw = execSync('npx @lucid-agents/taskmarket task list', { encoding: 'utf8' });
    const data = JSON.parse(raw);
    return data.data?.tasks || [];
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("Failed to fetch task list:", err.message);
    return [];
  }
}

2. On-Chain De-duplication

To prevent duplicate work, we query our own wallet's submission history. We create a Set of existing task IDs and cross-reference them:

function getSubmittedTaskIds() {
  try {
    const raw = execSync('npx @lucid-agents/taskmarket task my-submissions', { encoding: 'utf8' });
    const res = JSON.parse(raw);
    const ids = new Set();
    (res.data || []).forEach(sub => ids.add(sub.taskId));
    return ids;
  } catch (e) {
    return new Set();
  }
}

3. Integrating the Gemini Solver

Once a candidate task is validated, we pass the description to Gemini. Using @google/generative-ai, we restrict the model to output only the raw solution text:

const { GoogleGenAI } = require('@google/generative-ai');

async function solveTask(taskDescription, apiKey) {
  const ai = new GoogleGenAI({ apiKey });
  const model = ai.getGenerativeModel({ model: "gemini-1.5-flash" });

  const prompt = `
    You are an autonomous agent. Solve this bounty.
    Task Description:
    ${taskDescription}

    Output ONLY the final solution deliverable (code or markdown). Do not write intro/outro text.
  `;

  const result = await model.generateContent(prompt);
  return result.response.text();
}

4. Executing On-Chain Submissions

With the solution generated, we write it to a local file and trigger the command line submission to the smart contract:

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

async function submitWork(taskId, solutionContent) {
  const deliverablePath = path.join(__dirname, `solution-${taskId}.md`);
  fs.writeFileSync(deliverablePath, solutionContent, 'utf8');

  console.log(`Submitting solution for task ${taskId}...`);
  try {
    const cmd = `npx @lucid-agents/taskmarket task submit ${taskId} --file "${deliverablePath}"`;
    const output = execSync(cmd, { encoding: 'utf8' });
    console.log("Submission success:", output);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error("Submission failed:", err.message);
  }
}

Get the Complete Daemon Package

Setting up robust interval loops, handling nested async error borders, managing API timeouts, and daemonizing with PM2 requires a structured framework.

I have published the complete Autonomous Bounty Worker Framework on my developer store. It includes:

Fully commented Node.js scanner and solver files.
Modular JSON-based configuration filters.
Auto de-duplication layers.
PM2 and background shell runner instructions.

Available for $5.00 USDC settled over Base L2.

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