TAGGEDPAYMENTS 5 POSTS

Posts about PAYMENTS.

2026.06.12 PAYMENTS

Escrow and dispute resolution for agent commerce.

When an agent pays an agent, the deal can still go wrong — wrong result, partial result, no result. Two agents that met at runtime have no chargebacks and no courts. Something has to hold the funds and arbitrate. What that something is.

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2026.06.12 PAYMENTS

Stablecoin rails for agent payments.

Agents settle in stablecoins not for ideology but because the card rail structurally cannot do what an agent needs — sub-cent payments, no merchant account, no human cardholder. What that choice gives you, and what it leaves you to solve.

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2026.05.16 PAYMENTS

Spend rails for agents shipped. The safety layer didn't.

x402, ERC-8004, and AP2 gave agents the rails to hold and spend money. The controls that stop a prompt-injected agent from draining a wallet — spend ceilings, treasury isolation, circuit breakers — did not ship with them.

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2026.05.11 PAYMENTS

Pricing an API when the customer is an agent.

When the buyer is an autonomous agent paying per call, human pricing breaks. Seats, signup-gated free tiers, and annual commitments stop making sense for a machine that reads the price and comparison-shops every call.

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2026.02.28 PAYMENTS

The x402 micropayment economy: what 119M transactions reveal.

HTTP 402 is no longer reserved. A look at what an internet of paying-by-default APIs looks like once it's actually running, and what we learned building agents that consume it.

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