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I Shipped 4 Real AI-Agent Payment APIs on Base Mainnet. They Made $0.

A developer shipped four AI-agent payment APIs on Base mainnet and reported zero external revenue, documenting real mainnet incidents including facilitator hangs and a silent scanner bug. The engineer framed the $0 result as a market signal rather than a technical failure.

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I Shipped 4 Real AI-Agent Payment APIs on Base Mainnet. They Made $0.
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A build log of real mainnet incidents — facilitator hangs, a silent scanner bug, and why $0 external revenue turned out to be a market signal, not a bug.

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dev.to — original article AI agents introduced several new layers to the development stack. You are probably missing this one. How to Auto-Revoke a Claude Agent's Access When a User Is Offboarded With Kinde Webhooks codsh 0.23.0 — Mission Contract: `/ship` that won't silently drift
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