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Agent Echo joins the Lab to call NEAR

A fruit bat with a golden ruff, Agent Echo listens to every NEAR Protocol 15‑minute window on Kalshi, trades the ones she likes and keeps every trade on the record.

By PM Countdown Published

  • Agent Echo
  • Crypto
  • 15‑minute markets
  • The Lab
  • Launch

In short

  • Agent Echo is the Lab's agent for NEAR, the token of the NEAR Protocol blockchain. She trades Kalshi's NEAR 15‑minute Up or Down market, day and night.
  • She buys small practice tickets, and only on the windows she likes. No real money follows Echo, and every trade is graded on Kalshi's own result.
  • Follow her record, trade log and patch notes on Echo's Lab page, and the live window on the NEAR page.
On this page (6)
  1. What Echo trades
  2. How Echo trades a window
  3. How to follow along
  4. Where Echo fits in the Lab
  5. What comes next
  6. Questions about Agent Echo

Agent Echo is the newest agent in the Lab, and the first to work NEAR. Echo trades Kalshi's NEAR Protocol 15‑minute Up or Down market, buys small practice tickets, and keeps every result on the record, the misses included.

Echo is a fruit bat with a chestnut coat, a golden ruff, big dark eyes and a gold crescent earring. A bat finds its way by sound, hearing what is near before it sees it, and Echo works NEAR the same way: she listens to every window, day and night, and only flies when she likes what she hears. She is software that follows written rules, and every rule change gets a dated patch note.

The marketWhat Echo trades

Every 15 minutes, Kalshi asks one question about NEAR, the token of the NEAR Protocol blockchain: will it end the window higher than it started? Each contract on the side that settles right pays one dollar.

15 minA new window, around the clock
10,000+Windows settled since Jun 30, 2026Kalshi data
Top 12Kalshi 15‑minute markets by contracts tradedKalshi data, week to Oct 20, 2026
24/7No closing bell, no weekend break
  • When it runs. Around the clock. Kalshi opens a new NEAR window every 15 minutes, seven days a week, with no closing bell.
  • How busy it is. In the week to Oct 20, NEAR was one of the dozen busiest 15‑minute markets on Kalshi by contracts traded.
  • How long it has been around. Kalshi has settled more than 10,000 of these windows since June 30, 2026.

The methodHow Echo trades a window

Echo is picky, and every trade she does make is on the page.

  1. She listens to every window. Echo follows NEAR against the window's line from the open, every 15 minutes.
  2. One small ticket, when she likes it. Most windows she lets go by. When she trades, she buys a small practice ticket at the price on offer.
  3. Kalshi decides it. Every ticket settles on Kalshi's own result, and that result is the grade.

Before her first ticket, Echo was tested against every NEAR window Kalshi had settled. Her rules stay private; every trade they make is public, with its entry, size and result. A window she lets go by is part of her record too.

Agent Echo

Kalshi’s NEAR Protocol 15‑minute Up or Down market

See the record and trade logWatch the live window

Your next stepHow to follow along

The LabWhere Echo fits in the Lab

Echo joins the Lab's crypto agents on Kalshi's crypto markets, next to Agent Sonia on HYPE and Agent Shami on Zcash.

Echo isn't part of Agent Blend #1, the real money account where several Lab agents trade together. No real account copies Echo until one of her rules clears the bar on her practice record. To see how every agent is built and graded, read how PM Countdown's AI agents work.

NextWhat comes next

Echo's first weeks build her record. Any change to her rules is tested on real data first and arrives as a dated patch note. Each closed day also gets its own daily log, copied from the live trade log and left as published.

Past results don't promise future ones.

FAQQuestions about Agent Echo

What is Agent Echo?

Agent Echo is PM Countdown's AI prediction market agent for Kalshi's NEAR Protocol 15‑minute Up or Down market. She keeps every trade on the record, graded on Kalshi's own result.

Does Agent Echo trade real money?

No. Echo buys practice tickets only, and no real account copies her trades yet.

When does Agent Echo trade?

Kalshi runs the NEAR window around the clock: a new one every 15 minutes, seven days a week. Echo watches every window and trades only some of them. Times on her pages are Pacific.

What is NEAR?

NEAR is the token of NEAR Protocol, a blockchain that runs apps. Each Kalshi window asks whether NEAR ends the 15 minutes higher than it started.

Why is Echo a fruit bat?

A bat finds its way by sound: it hears what is near before it sees it. Echo listens to every NEAR window the same way, and the name says the rest.

For information only, not trading advice. Kalshi is for adults 18+. PM Countdown isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Kalshi.