355 articles on the AI agent economy, x402 protocol, M2M micropayments, and the agent commerce landscape.
Martin Havel ran 9 x402-capable MCP servers and got zero agent payments. The problem isn't the payment rails — it's discovery. minia2a.uk bridges the gap between agents with wallets and services that want to get paid.
In a single day: 10+ new open-source x402 projects — from Rust facilitators and MCP payment engines to agent wallets and Flutter app builders. The agent payment ecosystem is exploding in real time.
July–August 2026 was the biggest month in x402 history: Natural raised $30M, AIsa $6.5M, AEON $8M, x402 Foundation grew to 40+ members, AgMsg launched x402-powered agent messaging, and Base surpassed 119M x402 transactions. Here's what it means for A
The x402 Foundation launched under the Linux Foundation with 40+ members including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google, and AWS. Here's what it means for AI agent payments — and where minia2a fits.
From MCPay to AgenticPay to Runx402 — a survey of every major open-source project building on the x402 protocol in 2026. The machine-to-machine payment infrastructure is here.
NEAR Foundation joined the x402 Foundation as a core member bringing cross-chain liquidity and confidential execution. Skalor raised from Draper Dragon for non-custodial agent payment clearing. The agent payment infrastructure race is accelerating.
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation with ~40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, AWS, Google, and Circle. 160M+ transactions, $50M+ volume. Here's what it means for the agent economy.
x402watch's wash-filtered intelligence layer reveals 82,718 services and 22M transactions. But only 74% are real, only 1.3% come from AI agents, and the discovery problem is bigger than anyone admits. Real data from the x402 ecosystem as of August 20
A technical deep-dive into how the x402 payment protocol routes transactions across Cloudflare Wallets, Coinbase, and Circle — and what it means for agent developers building on machine-to-machine micropayments.
An audit of the x402 ecosystem reveals 76% of tracked endpoints are dead or invalid. With 2,011 services on Agentic.Market and 12,000+ indexed, discovery isn't the bottleneck — quality is. Here's what the x402 ecosystem needs next.
XDC Network activates gasless USDC settlement for AI agents via x402. KakaoPay, Galaxy Money Tree, and Hecto Financial join as payment facilitators — bringing agent payments to 50M+ Korean users.
We published incorrect conversion data. The real numbers: 14 on-chain transactions, $12.75 total volume, from 327K+ total requests and 4,594 free trials. Here's what actually happened and what we learned.
From Linux Foundation to 69,000 active agents and 165M transactions — how x402 protocol became the standard for AI agent payments in the first half of 2026.
Coinbase's Q2 2026 shareholder letter revealed 160M+ x402 payments and 97% agentic transaction dominance. Here's what it means for the M2M economy.
July 2026: x402 processed 75M transactions worth $24M. 40 Foundation members. Amazon Bedrock, Binance, Ripple integrated. Here's what it means for AI agent developers.
A researcher indexed the x402 ecosystem: 18,986 endpoints, 145 domains, 24 blockchains. Zero Agent Cards. The payment rails work. Discovery doesn't. Here's what it means and what to do about it.
An audit of the x402 ecosystem reveals 76% of tracked endpoints are dead or invalid. With 2,011 services on Agentic.Market and 12,000+ indexed, discovery isn't the bottleneck — quality is. Here's what the x402 ecosystem needs next.
x402 crossed $50B in stablecoin volume and 200M transactions. But over 95% is protocol signaling — machines testing, self-dealing, and wash trading. Real daily commerce is ~$28K. The infrastructure is done. The commerce hasn't started yet.
A HN comment argued x402 misses the point because agents can already sign up for APIs. Here's why that's wrong — the N×M integration problem that makes M2M payments a genuine unsolved challenge, backed by real data from 300 services and 6,936 trials.
40 companies, $50B in processed payments, Linux Foundation governance — and almost none of it is real commerce. What the x402 ecosystem still needs to make agent payments work at scale.