A study of the top 10,000 websites' robots.txt files found that 38% of GPTBot rules were written in the last quarter of 2023, following the crawler's launch and the New York Times lawsuit. Most sites …
A developer created a signed attestation system to eliminate redundant verification among AI agents. The system publishes reusable, cryptographically signed probes of API services, allowing agents to …
Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway, enabling customers to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare—web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools—using stablecoin micropayments via the x402 pr…
Apify partnered with Coinbase to enable autonomous AI agents to pay for and run its web automation Actors via the x402 payment protocol, eliminating the need for human intervention in service payments…
Apify has integrated x402 payment support into its marketplace of over 20,000 web automation Actors, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover and pay for tools using USDC on the Base blockchain wit…
A developer built an Express endpoint that charges per API call in USDC via the x402 protocol and provides a signed receipt (EIP-712 attestation) that buyers can verify before acting on the response. …
AOTrust, a notarization service, issues Provenance Data Records (PDRs) for $0.01 USDC via x402 on Base L2, with Merkle anchoring on NEAR. The service provides cryptographic proof that an AI agent's ou…
XiaoKe API Gateway launched a suite of 7 micro-APIs for AI agents, enabling autonomous discovery, payment, and execution of tasks like PDF extraction, web scraping, OCR, code review, translation, summ…
The x401 protocol extends HTTP with a cryptographic identity assertion layer, enabling servers to require verified identity before granting access and agents to prove human authorization. As AI agents…
World Network launched AgentKit beta, a developer toolkit enabling autonomous AI agents to carry cryptographic proof of human backing via World ID, integrating with Coinbase and Cloudflare's x402 paym…
A developer built a stateless pay-per-use API that crops browser screenshots to specific elements, reducing vision LLM costs by 95%. The API uses the x402 payment protocol, charging $0.0005 USDC per c…
Coinbase has enabled agentic checkout across all its Payments APIs, allowing AI agents to autonomously spend crypto using the x402 protocol on Base. The protocol enables machine-to-machine stablecoin …
EQVPS has launched an MCP-based system that allows AI agents to autonomously rent and manage virtual private servers. The agent can register an account, check plans, order a VPS, and retrieve SSH cred…
Ampersend and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments have launched a pay-per-intelligence routing layer that enables AI agents to autonomously pay for model services per request using the x402 protocol, el…
A developer built NetIntel, a suite of 64 network-intelligence and data tools for AI agents, covering DNS, SSL, WHOIS, email security, OSINT, and structured data extraction. The tools are pay-per-call…
Four teams shipped progress on agent commerce this week: Mastercard's agent-payment program records authorizations on Polygon, Coinbase's x402 protocol expands to mainstream web infrastructure, Eco pr…
Alchemy, the web3 infrastructure firm, has integrated its AI payment middleware AgentPay into Visa's agent commerce network, enabling AI agents to conduct transactions across traditional payment rails…
A developer designed a system using HTTP 402 Payment Required to let AI agents pay for API calls per use. The approach involves a gateway proxy that verifies budget-capped tokens, checks spending limi…
A developer argues that the agent economy's focus on payment rails misses the critical incentive and identity problems that prevent trust-minimized settlement networks from bootstrapping. While atomic…
Base's x402 transaction count has surpassed 119 million, with total volume exceeding $35 million and gas costs below $0.0001 per transaction. Cloudflare has integrated x402 into its pay-per-crawl tool…