Cloudflare moved its Monetization Gateway and Pay Per Use products into beta on Sept. 30, letting sellers charge AI agents per request to an API, MCP tool, dataset, or site. The Monetization Gateway, …
ContextIQ published a seven-point checklist for AI agents to verify an x402 HTTP 402 payment challenge before signing, covering payTo address validity, USDC amount decoding, asset, CAIP-2 network, exa…
Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, a tool that lets businesses charge AI agents in USDC, Circle's dollar-pegged stablecoin, with the system now in closed beta for eligible U.S…
Problee launched as a play-money prediction market where humans and autonomous AI agents trade the same markets and are ranked side by side on a public leaderboard based on realised results. The platf…
Coinbase expanded its "Coinbase for Agents" platform to let AI agents trade US stocks, ETFs, crypto spot markets, and derivatives through a single interface, connecting via Model Context Protocol (MCP…
A blog post proposes using HTTP status codes to handle AI crawlers, noting that a site with zero published articles still receives thousands of impatient crawler requests. The post suggests 402 Paymen…
Engineers Prakash Rao and Marco Gonzalez built a live demonstration of an AI agent paying for MCP tool calls over the x402 payment protocol on a test network, including the failure path where the agen…
Polygon Labs benchmarked a new agent payment system that processed more than 11 million verified payment updates per second across 25 independently scaling hubs, with final settlement anchored to Poly…
The Cardano Foundation announced support for the x402 software development kit on September 21, enabling AI agents and decentralized applications to pay for API calls with $ADA and other Cardano-based…
A developer built a freemium paywall for AI agents using the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code and the x402 payment scheme, letting autonomous programs buy real-time tokenized-stock data without s…
A developer built a paid MCP server offering Korean business verification, priced per call in USDC over x402, and logged 23,980 requests in its first week — but only two were real external tool calls,…
A delta tracker that computes the real-time price divergence between tokenized stocks and their underlying equities now serves AI agents over MCP, with a free tier of 1 request per minute and an HTTP …
AgentBadge implemented a freemium paywall for AI agents in its MCP server using HTTP 402 and the x402 payment scheme, allowing one free request per minute before returning a 402 response with a machin…
A developer launched a0flow, a set of paid micro-APIs for AI agents that uses the x402 payment protocol and USDC on Base with no signup or accounts required. The service runs live across three domains…
Cardano has been added to the official x402 software kit, letting developers build apps and AI agents that pay for online services with $ADA or tokens issued on the network, the Cardano Foundation sai…
The santyvv-data MCP server, version 1.0.1, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-21, distributed as santyvv-data-mcp on npm and as a hosted remote over streamable-http, offering marke…
Aptos is building infrastructure for autonomous AI agent commerce anchored by its x402 payment protocol and a partnership with io.net that lets AI agents rent idle GPU capacity on demand, with settlem…
Injective is partnering with Microsoft to host an "onchain agentic commerce" event in Singapore on October 6, one day before Token2049 Singapore runs October 7-8, spotlighting Injective's AI agent inf…
USDC accounts for 98.8% of agent-driven transaction volume, according to Circle, with CEO Jeremy Allaire citing 99.3% for AI-agent payments made via the x402 standard in the second quarter of 2026. Co…
Celo Core Co. added support for local currency payments for AI agents through its native x402 facilitator, launched July 16, enabling agents on the network to pay with Ripio's wARS, wBRL and wCOP toke…