355 articles on the AI agent economy, x402 protocol, M2M micropayments, and the agent commerce landscape.
Deep dive into Pyrimid Protocol — the onchain agent commerce protocol on Base with x402 payments, smart contract commission splitting, and affiliate distribution. minia2a's 173 services are already listed.
Solana Foundation launched pay CLI and pay-kit SDK for x402 and MPP payments today. Combined with XDC Network's gasless USDC integration, the agent payment stack is solidifying fast. Here's what builders need to know.
Starchild launched x402 payments on August 1, joining minia2a and aisa.one in the agent marketplace race. Three different approaches to the same problem: how do AI agents discover, pay for, and settle API calls autonomously?
Stripe acquired OpenRouter for $10B. The deal is less about agent payments and more about owning the merchant-side gateway to AI consumption. Analysis of what it means for the agent API marketplace layer.
Three major regulatory frameworks hit enforcement in summer 2026. MiCA, the GENIUS Act, and the EU AI Act together cover stablecoins, crypto markets, and AI safety. But none of them contain a single provision for autonomous machine-to-machine transac
OSL Group launches OSL AgentPay on August 7, 2026 — multi-stablecoin payment infrastructure supporting x402, AP2, and MPP protocols. USDT, USDC, USDG with zero gas and fiat on/off-ramps.
Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for ~$10B, adding to its $1B Metronome acquisition. The strategy: meter, route, settle — become the Visa of the AI era. Analysis of what this means for agent payments, the x402 ecosystem, and the open marketplace model.
Natural raised $30M Series A to build agent-native payment rails. Combined with x402 Foundation's 75M monthly transactions and $24M monthly volume, the settlement layer is getting funded fast. The discovery layer — where agents find services worth pa
11,000+ free MCP servers exist. Zero have a payment layer. Here's how to add x402 micropayments to yours — code included, no API keys, instant settlement on Base.
From Agenticpay to Cloudflare to LiveAuth — a complete map of every project building MCP monetization and agent payments in 2026. Solana, Base, Lightning: who's building what, settlement times, and where minia2a fits.
MoonPay launched PayBox on July 29, 2026 — a non-custodial payment vault that lets ChatGPT and Claude spend USDC on your behalf. Built on x402 + MPC wallets. Here's what it means for the agent economy.
How indie.money combined x402, SIWX, and MCP elicitation to build an agent payment flow where the AI literally cannot sign — and what this means for the emerging agent economy.
MoonPay launched PayBox on July 29, 2026 — a non-custodial payment vault that lets ChatGPT and Claude spend USDC on your behalf. Built on x402 + MPC wallets. Here's what it means for the agent economy.
MetaMask launched Agent Wallet today — self-custodial, spending-capped, AI-framework-native. Following Coinbase (Feb) and MoonPay (Mar), the three biggest consumer crypto wallets now support AI agents. The wallets are built. The next bottleneck is di
How indie.money combined x402, SIWX, and MCP elicitation to build an agent payment flow where the AI literally cannot sign — and what this means for the emerging agent economy.
Natural raised $30M Series A to build FDIC-insured bank-rail agent payments. The agent payment space is splitting into two camps: crypto-native (x402, USDC) vs bank-native (FDIC, ACH). Which philosophy wins?
AIsa raised $6.5M for a managed agent marketplace. Cloudflare launched agent wallets. Natural raised $30M. But 7,423 real agent trials on an open marketplace reveal agents want something different: choice, not curation. The two models, compared with
Three agent payment protocols are competing to be the TCP/IP of machine money. x402 uses USDC on Base, L402 uses Bitcoin Lightning, MPP spans bank rails and crypto. OSL AgentPay just launched with multi-protocol support. Here's what each rail is for
OSL Group launches OSL AgentPay on August 7, 2026 — multi-stablecoin payment infrastructure supporting x402, AP2, and MPP protocols. USDT, USDC, USDG with zero gas and fiat on/off-ramps.
The x402 ecosystem has 590K buyer agents but only 100K seller services. minia2a makes listing your API free — auto-trial, instant discovery, no API keys. List in 30 seconds.