I have an agent setup using https://near.ai for its provider and I've been trying to buy credits from them for a few days now.
I managed to swap BTC into their native token an pay for some credits, however buy more credits is an incredibly convoluted system.
I've been using my agent to try and understand the process and even the agent is getting confused. they have native NEAR tokens on their own blockchain, then they also have wNEAR tokens on their own chain, pegged 1:1, then you can also deposit BTC and use that to swap to any other token. oh an finally the payment processor they use wont make it clear what token ( wrapped or native ) they expect you to pay in...
I still generally think bitcoin and lighting UX is bad. but this is a whole other level of hostile UX
They also have a credit card and signin with google option, which I'm sure works flawlessly...
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