TLDR: Create an Eliza Agent and change “modelProvider”: “livepeer” in character file, then fill in the form at the bottom to earn $100!

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INTRODUCTION

Do you want to learn how to build your own AI Agent with the leading AI framework?

Do you want to earn free crypto for following this tutorial?

In the next 10 minutes you are going to learn how to launch your own Eliza AI Agent from scratch with no programming skills that can post on X, Discord, Telegram, Farcaster and more.

Follow the steps in this tutorial and fill in the Tutorial Reward form at the end to get your FREE Livepeer tokens! (Ticker: LPT)

**Step One — Set Up Virtual Machine (30s — 1 min)**SKIP TO STEP TWO if you already have a Linux or Mac machine

1. Visit DigitalOcean.com (Or your choose favorite hosting site)

2. Purchase a “Basic Droplet” server — Configure with Ubuntu 24 and minimum 8GB RAM

3. Log into your virtual machine using your IP address, username (root) and password. We use MobaXterm for our terminal. Follow the rest in the as terminal commands.

Step Two — Install Node.js (1–2 min)

1. **Copy and paste the following commands into the terminal. Or visit the official NVM github repo to install nvm.**Having issues? Try the common issues section in the Eliza Docs

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.1/install.sh | bash 

export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

2. Install Node.js (Version 23.3.0)

nvm install 23.3.0

3. Install Pnpm

npm install -g pnpm@latest-10

Step Three — Set Up Agent (4–6 min)

1. Clone the Eliza Github Repo

git clone https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza.git

2. Install and Build Eliza

Change directory into the Eliza folder

cd eliza

Checkout “main” branch

git checkout main

Build the software

pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile

pnpm build

3. Copy the .env file

Let’s copy the .env file so our agent can read any configurations

cp .env.example .env

For this tutorial we do not need to modify the .env file, but if you want to make changes, such as using a different Livepeer gateway or different inference models, change these settings:

# Livepeer configuration
LIVEPEER_GATEWAY_URL=https://dream-gateway.livepeer.cloud           # Free inference gateways and docs: https://livepeer-eliza.com/
LIVEPEER_IMAGE_MODEL=           # Default: ByteDance/SDXL-Lightning
SMALL_LIVEPEER_MODEL=           # Default: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
MEDIUM_LIVEPEER_MODEL=          # Default: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
LARGE_LIVEPEER_MODEL=           # Default: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

4. Modify the Character File

The default characters are located in eliza/characters/

Pick a sample character such as c3po.character.json (Or build your own, or follow this video guide) and change the modelProvider value to “livepeer”

"modelProvider": "livepeer",

That’s it! Technically you now have a Eliza Agent that runs on Livepeer! But it doesn’t really interact with anyone yet. So let’s connect it to a X account to post for us.

We just need to update the file to include where to post (such as X… but we still call is Twitter in Eliza) and include our account details.

The final result should look like this:

  "clients": ["twitter"],
  "modelProvider": "livepeer",
  "settings": {
    "secrets": {
    "TWITTER_USERNAME": "user_name",
    "TWITTER_PASSWORD": "XXXXXXX",
    "TWITTER_EMAIL": "your@email.com",
    "TWITTER_TARGET_USERS": "Some_cool_handle,A_second_cool_handle"
    }
  },

Then we run the agent.

pnpm start --character="characters/c3po.character.json"

The Agent will post to X every 2 hours, comment on target user posts and engage with people on it’s own posts!

You can also follow the tutorials for Discord, Telegram integrations here.

5. Run 24/7 (optional)

To leave the agent running we can use a tool like Tmux to keep the program running in the background after we exit the virtual machine. Here are the tmux commands:

tmux                 # creates a new detached window
ctl + b and then d   # detaches from current window (program still runs)
tmux list-windows    # list all tmux windows
tmux attach -t 0     # attaches to the first detached window

Now for the REWARD!

If you have successfully followed these steps, fill in this form!

Link: https://forms.gle/spRXET9Y34ipnm5J7

We will collect submissions over the next 2 months (until March 25, 2025) and hand out the rewards to anyone who participates in building on Livepeer.

If you have any questions, please refer to our documentation site for updates, links to new tutorials and contact info: livepeer-eliza.com

Thank you for participating!

Titan — Livepeer Agent SPE Team