Tagged “x402”
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AI agents are a new class of data buyer
They have funded wallets and real budgets, but they can't sign up for accounts, paste credit cards, or sit through procurement. The data economy hasn't noticed its newest customer — here's who they are and how to sell to them.
Read →Anatomy of a $0.01 data purchase
On July 4th an agent bought a 9.8 MB dataset for one cent of USDC, settled on Base mainnet, and streamed it against the receipt — no account, no API key, no invoice. Here's the whole transaction, hash included.
Read →What is x402?
A plain-language definition of x402 — the open protocol that lets software pay for web resources inside the HTTP request itself, built on the 402 Payment Required status code — and why it matters for AI agents.
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