Circle presented its Agent Stack toolkit at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco from June 29 to July 2, demonstrating tools that enable autonomous AI agents to hold assets and settle payment…
Cinderwright has built a payment bridge that allows an AI agent holding only USDC on Base to pay a Lightning Network invoice for the first time. The agent requested a joke from an L402 service and was…
Travala launched its Travel MCP protocol on June 4, enabling autonomous AI agents to book hotel rooms across 2.2 million properties using gasless USDC payments on Coinbase's Base blockchain. The Binan…
Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, reported that 90% of its workforce now uses AI coding tools and desktop applications weekly, up from 85% in May. The firm has deployed over 900 internal…
M2MCent released X402-express, an open-source middleware that enables AI agents to pay per API call using USDC on Base L2. The npm package implements the x402 payment protocol, allowing developers to …
A designer-turned-developer has launched Scrape Agent, a pay-per-use web scraping API built with Claude's assistance that charges $0.01 USDC per call via the x402 micropayment protocol. The API extrac…
Coinbase's x402 protocol surpassed 100 million agentic transactions on Base within nine months of its May 2025 launch, according to a Chainalysis report. The protocol, which repurposes the HTTP 402 st…
Cinderwright has launched a proxy service that lets AI agents call over 2,800 paid APIs — including weather, translation, and Bitcoin price lookups — without implementing any crypto payment logic. Dev…
Keyrock's analysis of 176 million x402 payments found that 76% were below a $0.30 card-fee floor and 98.6% settled in USDC, revealing that stablecoin fallback flows require careful retry policies to p…
Circle launched Arc, an enterprise-grade Layer-1 blockchain designed to power machine-speed transactions for AI agents, with sub-second finality and transaction fees as low as $0.000001. The USDC issu…
A developer built an AWS Bedrock AgentCore agent that autonomously pays for paywalled API calls using real USDC on Arbitrum One, bypassing the need for API keys or human approval. When the agent recei…
LogicNodes has launched a platform offering 2,316 deterministic AI workers accessible via HTTP, providing services such as gas oracles, signature verifiers, ZK attestation, and USDC balance checking w…
MCPize launched x402 payments in production, enabling AI agents with EIP-3009 wallets to pay for MCP tool calls in USDC on Base mainnet. The first payment of $0.01 settled in four seconds, bypassing s…
This article explains how developers can use Solana's Token 2022 extensions to build various Web3 applications without custom smart contracts. It outlines four specific use cases: subscription tokens …
The article describes the creation of a pay-per-call crypto signal API called Kiro Crypto Signals, which uses Coinbase's x402 protocol to charge $0.01 in USDC per request on Base mainnet without requi…