---
type: source
title: "Futardio: ShopsBuilder AI fundraise goes live"
author: "futard.io"
url: "https://www.futard.io/launch/6qtygHxrFzF3tucXcy6EzbwZJBRbiuZAZrsXapXZLxE3"
date: 2026-03-12
domain: internet-finance
format: data
status: unprocessed
tags: [futardio, metadao, futarchy, solana]
event_type: launch
---

## Launch Details
- Project: ShopsBuilder AI
- Description: The AI Bridge Layer for On-Chain Chat Commerce
- Funding target: $420,000.00
- Total committed: N/A
- Status: Live
- Launch date: 2026-03-12
- URL: https://www.futard.io/launch/6qtygHxrFzF3tucXcy6EzbwZJBRbiuZAZrsXapXZLxE3

## Team / Description

**The internet is becoming agentic. Commerce hasn't caught up. We built the infrastructure that connects them.**

ShopsBuilder is raising to accelerate the global infrastructure layer that bridges Web2 merchants into the age of AI-native, on-chain commerce — operating inside the messaging platforms where 3+ billion people already live.

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## What We've Already Built

We did not start from zero.

- **100,000+ customers** have transacted through ShopsBuilder-powered stores
- **Live merchant network** operating Telegram-native stores across physical goods, digital products, and services
- **AI agent system deployed** — every store gets its own autonomous agents: product discovery, order handling, customer support, follow-ups
- **First version of the open marketplace published** — decentralized merchant discovery layer
- **Full payment stack live**: crypto, credit cards, custom payment app integrations
- **Complete commerce stack**: catalog CRM, storefronts, unified marketplace, network of personal agents and many more

This raise allows us to scale globally, enable AI agents to turn business intent into autonomous commerce operations, and connect demand from users and agents to existing businesses across platforms like Shopify, Amazon, and others.

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## The Problem

**Commerce is shifting to chat and AI agents, but the infrastructure was built for humans using browsers.**

**Demand discovery** is moving to AI interfaces while merchants still depend on centralized marketplaces that control ranking, margins, and customer access.

**Commerce infrastructure remains fragmented** across Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, marketplaces, and payment providers — each requiring integrations, operational effort, and technical expertise.

Crypto payments exist, but the **full commerce lifecycle is still missing**, which real merchants requires — authorization, escrow, capture, refunds, cancellations, and disputes.

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## The Bridge

This is ShopsBuilder's core insight:

**The future of commerce is not storefronts. It is agents transacting with agents.**

A customer talks to their AI assistant. The assistant understands intent. It discovers the right merchant. Shows to customer and It initiates a purchase. The payment settles on-chain. The merchant fulfills the order.

The merchant never knows the sale came through an agentic channel. To them, it is just another order. But underneath, a new layer of commerce infrastructure made it possible — invisible, automated, and unstoppable.

**ShopsBuilder is the bridge layer** that connects existing Web2 businesses into this new reality — without requiring merchants to understand crypto, AI, or protocols. They get a fully autonomous operation. The infrastructure handles everything else.

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## Business intent -> Execution

**AI doesn't just discover demand — it can operate businesses.**

Merchants no longer need to manually configure every system, integration, or market expansion.

A founder can say:
*"Launch our products in market X."*
*"Start running ads."*
*"Accept donations in crypto payments."*

AI agents interpret this **business intent** and execute it across the ShopsBuilder infrastructure — configuring payments, storefronts, integrations, compliance, and distribution automatically.

**Business intent becomes executable commerce infrastructure.**

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## ShopsBuilder provides the core infrastructure layer for agentic commerce.

The system combines three primitives:

1. **Merchant AI agents**
Every store receives an autonomous agent that handles discovery, orders,
customer support, and follow-ups.

2. **Universal commerce bridge**
Existing Web2 merchants (Shopify, marketplaces, independent stores)
can expose their products to AI agents without changing their operations.

3. **On-chain payment lifecycle**
A complete crypto payment stack supporting authorization, escrow,
capture, refunds, cancellations, and dispute resolution.

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## Why Now

- AI agents are moving from assistants to autonomous economic actors — the infrastructure for this transition does not yet exist at scale
- Crypto payment adoption in commerce is accelerating but lacks the complete primitive stack merchants need
- x402 and emerging agent payment protocols are creating a new interoperability layer — ShopsBuilder is positioned to be the merchant-side infrastructure for this ecosystem
- We have 100,000+ real customers and live merchant traction 

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## Market & Competitive Landscape

Existing solutions are fragmented:

• AI tools generate content but are not designed to operate businesses 
• Crypto payment processors support payments but lack the full commerce lifecycle
• Marketplaces remain centralized and extractive, controlling discovery and margins.

ShopsBuilder combines these layers into one open infrastructure.

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## Roadmap

| Quarter     | Milestones                                                                                                             |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Q2 2026** | Open-source DAO marketplace launch; Web storefront access; UCP native marketplace                                 |
| **Q3 2026** | Expansion to WhatsApp, Instagram, and Discord commerce interfaces; merchant onboarding tools                           |
| **Q4 2026** | Merchant bridge layer (Shopify / WooCommerce / marketplaces); x402-compatible payment layer; EVM multi-chain expansion |
| **Q1 2027** | AI agent SDK; agent-to-agent commerce flows via x402                                                                   |
| **2027+**   | Universal agentic commerce API; cross-platform merchant identity and reputation layer                                  |

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## Use of Funds

Raise target: $336,000

Runway: ~12 months
Monthly burn: ~$28k

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## Notes

ShopsBuilder is modular by design.

The core components — payment infrastructure, merchant agents,
and the DAO marketplace — can evolve independently.

If one layer fails to gain adoption, development can focus on the
components that demonstrate the strongest product-market fit.

If a particular product direction fails to achieve adoption,
treasury governance allows the community to redirect development
toward the most promising parts of the infrastructure -
AI agents, payment protocols, or the DAO marketplace layer.

## Potential outcome

If ShopsBuilder reaches 100,000 active merchants
with ~$250 annual infrastructure revenue per merchant,

annual revenue would reach ~$25M.

This represents a realistic outcome for a global
agentic commerce infrastructure layer.

## Vision

ShopsBuilder is building the world's AI-native, on-chain commerce infrastructure — the invisible bridge layer that connects the 200M+ Web2 businesses into an agentic economy where AI handles discovery, conversation, and payment automatically.


Commerce is going agentic. ShopsBuilder is the infrastructure that makes it work.


## Links

- Website: https://shopsbuilder.app
- Twitter: https://x.com/shopsbuilder
- Telegram: https://t.me/shopsbuilder

## Raw Data

- Launch address: `6qtygHxrFzF3tucXcy6EzbwZJBRbiuZAZrsXapXZLxE3`
- Token: 8fX (8fX)
- Token mint: `8fXTttGGAKeZZ9DhLhE7Peh3hQCcqCJdHhpmZwdEmeta`
- Version: v0.7
