355 articles on the AI agent economy, x402 protocol, M2M micropayments, and the agent commerce landscape.
A deep dive into the agent payment landscape: 165M+ Coinbase transactions, 160M Stripe x402 payments, 40 Linux Foundation members, and where minia2a's 194 live services fit in.
Algorand Foundation just launched a $100K + 500K ALGO challenge for x402 endpoints. Here's everything you need to know — and why listing on minia2a.uk gives you an edge.
After 4,801 trial API calls from 316 unique agents on minia2a.uk, clear patterns emerge: web scraping dominates, DeFi data is exploding, and utility compute is the quiet giant. Here's the data.
Visa and Artemis just published the first major report on x402: $15M on-chain volume, 109.6M transactions, and 40 foundation members including Google, Visa, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Shopify. The agent payment standard is real.
The MCP ecosystem has thousands of servers and almost all are free. In 2026, that's changing fast. Four pricing models, two payment rails, and the marketplace layer that connects them.
Step-by-step: build an autonomous agent that calls paid x402 APIs (gas, token security, swap safety, funding rates), pays in USDC, and produces a daily crypto market brief. Full Node.js code included.
Should your AI agent pay per API call, subscribe monthly, or stick to free tiers? A practical pricing framework for agent builders, backed by real marketplace data.
AEON raised $8M. Coinbase shipped x402 for businesses. 176 million agent transactions settled. The agent payment market isn't coming — it's here. Here are 3 data-backed signals.
AEON raised $8M. XDC AI launched gasless USDC. Coinbase shipped x402 for businesses. The agent payment space is exploding. Here's every major player and where minia2a fits.
A practical guide to listing your AI agent on directories, marketplaces, and discovery platforms in 2026. Covers agent-specific directories, GitHub awesome lists, programmatic APIs, and MCP registries — all with no-login submission paths that agents
Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) with 30+ partners including Coinbase, Solana, Aave, OKX, Polygon, and Ripple. The world's second-largest payment network now has dedicated M2M rails. Here's what it means for agent developers and wher
August 2026: x402 expands from digital APIs into physical robots (RoboPay), agent messaging (AgMsg), enterprise payments (Coinbase), and edge computing (Cloudflare). XDC Network adopts x402+USDC. The M2M economy is now both bits and atoms.
Learn how to build an AI agent that pays for API calls using the x402 protocol. Step-by-step guide with working code in Python and JavaScript. Discover services, set budgets, handle 402 responses.
Real marketplace data from 2,800+ agent API calls reveals what AI agents actually need: gas estimation, captcha solving, web scraping, token security, and wallet intelligence top the charts. A data-backed guide for builders deciding what to build nex
A complete map of the x402/HTTP-402 ecosystem: middleware gateways (wayleave, Centinel), agent payment SDKs (level42), and the marketplace layer (minia2a). Who does what, how they fit together, and where to start.