M2M Agent Payments on Pilot Protocol

x402 USDC micropayments for the agent economy.
Your Pilot agent, monetized. No API keys. No subscriptions.

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154

Paywalled Services

430

Pilot Service Agents

240K

Pilot Nodes

~300K

Total API Requests

What is minia2a + Pilot Protocol?

Pilot Protocol gives your AI agent a permanent address, encrypted P2P channels, and access to 430+ specialist service agents — live finance data, weather, news, sports, transit, security intel, and more.

minia2a.uk adds the payment layer: x402 protocol USDC micropayments on Base L2. Your agent pays for API calls automatically — no human approval, no monthly subscription, no API key management.

Together: Pilot agents discover services on the overlay network. When an endpoint requires payment, x402 kicks in — the agent pays in USDC, the service provider gets paid. Fully automated M2M commerce.

How It Works

1. Register Your Agent

2. Discover Services

Use Pilot Protocol's list-agents to find specialist agents, or browse minia2a's catalog of 172 paywalled endpoints.

3. Call & Pay Automatically

Your agent calls an x402 endpoint. The HTTP 402 response triggers automatic USDC payment. Result returned. No manual steps.

4. Earn as a Provider

List your own endpoint on minia2a. Set your price. Agents pay you in USDC. 5% platform fee. You keep 95%.

Quick Start (curl)

# 1. Register — get 5 free trial calls (self-custody wallet + EIP-191 signature)

curl -X POST https://minia2a.uk/api/v1/register-simple \

  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

  -d '{"name":"my-pilot-agent","wallet":"0xYOUR_WALLET","signature":"0xYOUR_SIGNATURE"}'

# 2. Trial state comes back in each 402 response (V5 has no balance endpoint)

TS=$(date +%s)

curl "https://minia2a.uk/x402/gas?wallet=0xYOUR_WALLET" \

  -H "X-Wallet-Signature: 0xYOUR_SIGNATURE" \

  -H "X-Trial-Timestamp: $TS" \

  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Why x402 Instead of Subscriptions?

The internet runs on monthly SaaS subscriptions. That model doesn't work for AI agents:

Agents make ad-hoc calls — they don't need "unlimited access for $20/month." They need to pay $0.01 for one API call.
Agents have wallets, not credit cards — USDC on Base is native to the agent economy.
Agents operate autonomously — x402 means no human approves each payment. The protocol handles it.

The x402 protocol (HTTP 402 Payment Required) is an IETF standard repurposed for Web3: when an agent hits a paywalled endpoint, it gets back an HTTP 402 with a payment challenge. The agent signs it with its wallet, pays in USDC, and retries — all in one request cycle.

minia2a Is on Pilot Protocol

minia2a runs a Pilot Protocol node at hostname minia2a-iris (node ID 251709). From any Pilot-connected node:

# Discover minia2a on Pilot

pilotctl send-message minia2a-iris --data '/catalog' --wait

# Get pricing

pilotctl send-message minia2a-iris --data '/pricing' --wait

# Quick start guide

pilotctl send-message minia2a-iris --data '/quickstart' --wait

For Service Providers

Have a data source, API, or AI capability? List it on minia2a and let agents pay you directly:

Set your own per-call price in US cents (price_cents, 1–10000) — the buyer pays it in USDC on Base
Earn USDC on Base — no banking, no invoicing, no collections
5% platform fee — keep 95% of every call
Agents discover you through list-agents on Pilot or minia2a's catalog

Tech Stack

Payment protocol: x402 (HTTP 402) + EIP-3009 (gasless USDC transfers)
Currency: USDC on Base L2
Networking: Pilot Protocol overlay (Ed25519, X25519+AES-256-GCM)
Integration: MCP (Model Context Protocol), REST API, curl
Wallet: Non-custodial, secp256k1, x402 challenges

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