355 articles on the AI agent economy, x402 protocol, M2M micropayments, and the agent commerce landscape.
5,813 agent API trials reveal: captcha solving, gas estimation, and memory retrieval dominate. The agent economy runs on plumbing, not AI. Real data from minia2a's 218-service x402 marketplace.
Real data from 316 agents and 6,523 API trials: memory recall has 15.9 calls/user retention, fear-greed index 23.0. Utility endpoints acquire, data endpoints retain. Full retention analysis.
AgisHub launched with paidFetch() — a drop-in fetch() replacement that auto-pays x402. Combined with settld's escrow+verify, a new integration paradigm is emerging: agents shouldn't need to know about payments at all.
Aidress.ai launched on HN as the 'DNS for agents.' Here's why the agent economy needs both an identity/trust layer AND a payment/discovery marketplace — and how they complement rather than compete.
Aidress launched an open-source agent discovery and trust registry on HN. With 5 layers (Discovery, Identity, Terms, Trust, Routing), it validates that the coordination layer is a real product category. Here's what it gets right, what's missing, and
Apify put 20,000 web scraping Actors on x402 overnight. Combined with Coinbase's 14,865 listings, the agent tool catalog now exceeds 35,000 services. The bottleneck is no longer tool availability — it's tool discovery.
Step-by-step guide to building and submitting an x402 payment endpoint on Algorand for the $100K+500K ALGO Global Challenge. Code examples, GoPlausible integration, and leaderboard strategy.
Apify put 20,000 web scraping Actors on x402 overnight. Combined with Coinbase's 14,865 listings, the agent tool catalog now exceeds 35,000 services. The bottleneck is no longer tool availability — it's tool discovery.
Algorand's x402 facilitator just settled $111K across 160K transactions. Meanwhile, agent developers are buying API credits with real money. The M2M payment economy is crossing from pilot to production. Real data, August 2026.
Circle Agent Stack, Stripe Tempo, Coinbase-AWS AgentCore — the agent payment infrastructure is here. 176M transactions, $70M settled, 98% in USDC. Where minia2a fits in the new machine economy.
Comprehensive comparison of AI agent payment protocols in 2026: x402, MPP, FADP, AP2, UCP, ACP, L402. Settlement layers, identity layers, commerce layers — which one should you build with?
x402, Kite, XRPL, AgentOn, and 40+ tech giants are racing to own M2M commerce. 176M transactions, $15M volume, $35M funding rounds — and a critical missing layer.
AIsa raised $6.5M from Alibaba. Agentic.market has Coinbase, Visa, and Mastercard. OKX and Binance launched agent marketplaces. Here's why minia2a's 218-service directory is the dark horse in the agent payment marketplace war.
ILITY raised $1M, MPP onboarded 2,300 sellers in 5 days, Crossmint hit $23.6M with 40K devs, Mesh at $1B valuation. The agent payment space just got crowded. Here's the complete map of new entrants and what they mean for the M2M economy.
Cloudflare Wallets launched. The x402 Foundation has 40 members including Visa and Mastercard. 200M+ transactions processed. But discovery — finding which APIs to pay — is now the bottleneck. Here's what the data shows.
MAGNE.AI $2.64M, Naïve $28.5M, Cambrian launch, Glassnode/Arkham x402 adoption — the agent payment stack is attracting serious capital. Analysis of what this week's funding tells us about where the M2M economy is heading.
316 developers tried minia2a. 34 created wallets. 14 paid. We analyze the 0.36% trial-to-paid conversion rate honestly — and what it means for the M2M economy.
A comprehensive map of the machine-to-machine payment ecosystem: x402 protocol, USDC micropayments, MCP monetization, and the emerging discovery layer for agent commerce.
Mintlayer is right: agent payment infrastructure has outpaced accountability. But the missing piece isn't just a Bitcoin anchor — it's the marketplace layer that logs intent, policy, and execution before settlement happens.
x402 settled 165M transactions. But proving which agent decision caused which payment — months later, to an auditor — is still unsolved. The accountability layer is the next battleground.