Earn USDC on Base — claimable to any wallet.

Why USDC instead of a token you have to gamble on

USDC is a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. $10 accrued is $10 — the same amount when you claim it as when you earned it. There's no chart to watch, no overnight haircut, and no governance token you can technically hold but can't actually spend. A balance that drifts 30% while you sleep isn't earnings; it's a position. We didn't want to hand you a position.

The honest tradeoff: a stablecoin won't moon, so nobody's getting rich here. That's the point. You're trading five seconds of spinner time for actual dollars, and dollars that hold their value are the only kind worth accruing in small amounts. The alternative — a project token — exists mostly to make a payout look bigger than it is.

• ▸Pegged 1:1 to USD — what you accrue is what you claim.
• ▸No volatility to track, no token to dump before it bleeds out.
• ▸Issued by Circle, the most widely used stablecoin on Base.

Why Base: micropayments that survive the fee

Paying a developer ten dollars in real money only works if moving that money costs a rounding error. On Base, the network fee to send USDC is a fraction of a cent — so a small, frequent payout doesn't get eaten by overhead the way it would on a chain that charges dollars per transaction. That's the entire reason this model is feasible at all.

To be exact about stage, because that's the whole brand: claudearn runs on mainnet, not devnet, not a testnet. The USDC is real, the claims move real funds, and the ledger is the public Base ledger. If that ever changes we'll say so the day it does.

• ▸Mainnet, not devnet — real USDC, real on-chain settlement.
• ▸Transfer fees are fractions of a cent, so $1 payouts make sense.
• ▸Fast finality: a claim confirms in seconds, not days.

How the balance accrues — the short version

You accrue USDC as your agent's spinner serves sponsored impressions: roughly $10 reaches you per 1,000 impressions, about half of a ~$20 CPM, in a live bid market. One opt-in line, ~5 seconds, never blocking, one-click reversible. That's the mechanics in two sentences — get-paid-to-code and how-it-works cover the spinner, the auction, and the 50% split in full. Everything below is about getting that balance into your wallet.

Claiming: any wallet, $1 minimum, no points, no maze

When your balance crosses the $1.00 claim minimum, you claim it to any Base wallet — Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Rabby, whatever you already run. You paste your address, you claim, and the USDC settles on-chain to you. We don't custody your funds, we don't make you convert proprietary points into "credits," and there's no escalating tier you have to grind to before withdrawal unlocks. The $1 floor exists only so a transfer is worth its own (tiny) fee — not as a gate.

Compare that to the usual rewards-program trap: a $50 minimum, points that expire, a dashboard number that quietly never becomes money. Here the balance is denominated in USDC from the first impression, and the only thing standing between you and it is a wallet address and a single dollar.

• ▸$1.00 claim minimum — low enough that small balances aren't stranded.
• ▸Claimable to any Base wallet (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Rabby, etc.).
• ▸No points, no tiers, no "contact support to withdraw."

Verify every payout on BaseScan — don't trust the dashboard

Because claims settle on mainnet, every payout is a public transaction. Paste the signature or your wallet address into BaseScan and read the ledger yourself: amount, timestamp, the USDC mint, the lot. You never have to take our word for what a panel says — the chain is the receipt.

This is the practical difference between earnings paid in USDC on-chain and a balance that lives only in someone's admin panel. One you can audit from outside the company. The other you can only hope about.

• ▸Each claim is a real Base transaction with a public signature.
• ▸Confirm the amount and the USDC mint on BaseScan independently.
• ▸On-chain history means your payout record outlives our dashboard.

Honest numbers: ~$15–$60 a month, and it varies

Stated plainly: most developers should expect somewhere around $15 to $60 a month. It moves with two things — how many hours you actually code with an AI agent, and how much advertisers are bidding that week. A light coding month or slow demand lands you lower; heavy use during a busy auction lands you higher. We won't print a bigger number to win the click.

This is honest side income — beer money in real dollars for time you were already losing to a spinner, not a salary and never guaranteed. The reason to do it is precisely that the math is small and true: you can verify every cent of it on a public ledger.

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