Tributary @ mtnDAO
What you can build with autonomous money streams
๐ค AI & Automation
6 use-casesAI Companions
AI companions that autonomously spend to improve themselves โ relationships that decay without investment.
Autonomous AI Agents (Auto Ape)
AI agents that autonomously trade, farm, and spend on-chain while you sleep โ funded by pull-based spending limits you approve once.
Intent-Based Finance (The Agent)
Specify goals, not rules. 'Grow my SOL.' 'Best risk-adjusted yield.' 'Save for my tax bill.' The agent decides where, when, and how much โ within guardrails you defined.
Internet Organisms
Autonomous economic beings that earn, spend, evolve, and compete โ funded by participants who believe in them.
Living Digital Organisms
AI entities tied to wallets that evolve, learn, and emotionally bond with users โ funded by continuous pull-based upkeep or they decay and die.
Wallet Guardian & Optimizer
Give your wallet a nervous system โ autonomous protection against threats and continuous optimization of every financial position.
๐ฐ DeFi & Trading
12 use-casesAuto-DCA (Non-Custodial)
Dollar-cost averaging from your own wallet, across any protocol, on your schedule โ no custodian, no exchange, no per-buy signature.
Auto-Stake & Auto-Compound
Staking rewards and yield that reinvest themselves โ never leave a reward sitting idle, never manually compound again.
Cross-Protocol Financial Workflows
Multi-step financial pipelines that chain conditions and forward CPIs across protocols โ DeFi lego blocks assembled into autonomous workflows.
DeFi Risk Shield
Automated risk management for DeFi positions โ auto-repay loans when LTV spikes, exit LPs when impermanent loss exceeds thresholds. Non-experts get professional-grade protection.
Gamified Auto-DCA
Dollar-cost averaging transformed into a gacha-style progression game with randomized timing, loot bonuses, and character leveling
Idle Capital Deployment
Keep $X liquid. Everything above goes to work automatically. The universal painkiller that onboards users to automated DeFi.
Policy-Based Capital Allocation
Stop specifying transactions. Specify rules. Stop-losses, rebalancing, concentration caps, drawdown limits โ the system executes within your constraints, validated on-chain.
Recurring DeFi Subscriptions
True recurring payments where a business pulls tokens from a user and forwards them into a DeFi position โ auto-staking fees, vault management fees, recurring DCA into protocol positions โ all from one delegation, triggered by a third party without per-transaction signing.
Self-Defending Tokens (AutoPump)
Autonomous meme coin immune systems that continuously defend token price, liquidity, and community โ without governance votes or manual execution.
Smart Treasury Yield Routing
A third-party service monitors a business or user's idle balances and automatically routes surplus capital into the best available yield source โ rebalancing based on APY, risk, and liquidity constraints. Lighthouse validates conditions; the composable contract pulls and forwards.
Spare Change Investing
Round up every transaction from connected wallets and auto-invest the difference โ invisible wealth building native to crypto
Strategy Execution Engine
Pre-approved trading strategies that execute automatically when conditions are met โ oracle signals, price targets, time schedules โ without per-trade signing and without handing over private keys. The user delegates spending authority; the strategy service triggers; Lighthouse validates; the protocol routes through any whitelisted DEX.
๐ Commerce & Payments
11 use-casesDelegated Crowdfunding
Kickstarter without the custodial risk โ backers commit pull authority, not funds. Money stays in your wallet until the campaign earns it.
Delegated Taste Commerce
Delegate purchasing decisions to people whose taste you trust โ invisible commerce where experts buy on your behalf within constraints.
Event Commerce Wallets
Attendees approve a spending authority at events โ meals, merch, upgrades flow without checkout. The event becomes a frictionless economic zone.
Family Banking Infrastructure
Programmable family finances โ allowances, spending caps, approved merchants, and graduated autonomy for children, all enforced on-chain.
Human Attention Leasing
Turn human attention into a continuously billable API โ metered by the minute, pulled on demand
Instant Vending Commerce
Physical commerce at the speed of scanning a QR code โ scan once, approve a vending budget, then grab and go at every subsequent interaction
Milestone Escrow Marketplace
Service marketplace where funds are escrowed on-chain and released automatically as milestones are verified and completed.
Mystery Digital Drops
Weekly automated mystery NFT drops โ trading cards, generative art, music โ delivered without user action after initial approval.
Solana Checkout Pages
Plug-and-play checkout infrastructure for Solana commerce โ embeddable pages, one-click upsells, native subscriptions, and post-purchase revenue loops. The missing conversion layer for on-chain merchants.
Stream-to-Own Commerce
Pay per second for continuous access to services, spaces, and compute โ no subscriptions, just presence
The Internet Salary
A living wage stream from the internet โ continuous earnings auto-allocated across savings, investments, insurance, and life.
๐ฅ Social & Community
8 use-casesAutomated Social Tipping
Set rules, forget โ your favorite creators get tipped automatically based on your spending, their activity, or engagement metrics.
Autonomous Charitable Giving
Set giving rules once โ donations flow automatically based on gains, thresholds, and triggers. Generosity without willpower.
DAO Treasury Automation Engine
DAOs deploy treasury capital automatically based on governance decisions โ milestone-based funding, policy-based yield, automated rebalancing โ all validated by Lighthouse against on-chain vote results.
Dynamic Dating
Continuous economic signaling replaces empty swipes โ money talks, bots walk.
Dynamic Group Economies
Shared wallets for friend groups, roommates, and communities โ expenses settle automatically, nobody chases anyone for money.
Economic Clans & CultOS
Meme coin communities become programmable religions with automated tithes, raids, and collective action budgets.
Programmable Attention Markets
Attention becomes programmable money โ creators earn by the second, feeds become live markets, communities deploy capital to capture and compete for human attention.
PvP Spending & Competitive Consumption
Turn spending into a multiplayer game โ visible streams, real-time leaderboards, and clan warfare where money is the ammunition.
๐ง Infrastructure & Tools
15 use-casesAutonomous Treasury Management
Mercury meets Ramp for crypto companies โ incoming funds auto-classify, route, secure, and account for themselves.
Capital Autonomy Layer
The meta-use-case: users set financial rules once โ risk limits, yield targets, allocation ratios, spending caps โ and their capital self-operates within those boundaries.
Composable Financial Identity
Your payment history becomes your credit score, your reputation, your passport โ all onchain.
Conditional Payment Router
Escrow-like conditional payments without custom contracts โ Lighthouse enforces oracle conditions, then the protocol pulls and forwards.
Dead Man's Switch Inheritance
Authorize a heir to claim your wallet after a countdown โ stay alive, push the deadline. Go dark, they inherit.
Digital Afterlife Protocol
Programmable post-death financial execution โ your wallet outlives you.
Income Waterfall
Every incoming payment auto-splits across purpose-specific wallets the moment it lands โ pay yourself first, without willpower
Internet-Native Royalties
Every piece of content carries automated royalty rules โ revenue splits flow downstream forever, enforced on-chain
Onchain Payroll Network
Crypto-native payroll that automatically routes salaries, taxes, savings, and benefits โ not payroll software, a payroll network.
Open Source Usage-Based Funding
Package usage drives funding flows automatically โ the npm install that pays the maintainer, no donations required.
Pay-Per-Use SaaS
Infrastructure and trading tools that charge per API call, per trade, or per query โ no flat subscriptions, pay only for what you use.
Revenue Routing Rails
Programmable payment splitting infrastructure โ every incoming dollar routes itself to the right destination instantly, no manual accounting.
SOL Balance Monitor
Autopilot for your wallet's life support โ never watch a position die from rent exhaustion or fee starvation again. Threshold-triggered refueling, validated on-chain, paid for only when it fires.
Split Payroll Automation
Companies pay employees in USDC/SOL on schedule with automatic splits โ taxes to a vault, savings into yield, bonuses swapped to volatile assets โ all from one treasury delegation, triggered by the payroll service, validated by Lighthouse.
Streaming SaaS Billing
Per-API-call, per-token, per-compute-unit billing with automatic token swaps when the user holds a different token than the billing token. A SaaS provider pulls micro-amounts on usage, Lighthouse validates the usage proof, and if needed the protocol forwards through a DEX swap before settling. No invoices, no monthly subscriptions, no manual payments.
๐ฎ Gaming & Entertainment
4 use-casesFrictionless Arcade & Gacha
Zero-transaction-friction gaming payments that make crypto games feel like real arcades โ just play, money moves in the background
Frictionless Onchain Casinos
Zero-friction gambling at scale โ approve once, play forever, lose incrementally.
MMO Financial Warfare
A persistent MMO where every second of gameplay costs money โ territory drains treasury, shields burn SOL, wars are economic stamina contests.
Micro-Betting & Prediction Markets
Pre-approved thrill budgets enable instant frictionless micro-wagers on real-time events
๐จ Creator Economy
1 use-case๐ง Psychology & Emotion
3 use-casesMoodFi
Your wallet develops a nervous system โ spending adapts to your emotional state in real-time.
Personal Constitutions
Your wallet becomes a moral operating system โ spending rules that enforce your values, not just your budget.
Social Commitment Contracts
Put real money behind your promises โ fitness goals, habits, and commitments enforced by delegated economic consequences.