The Agent Economy

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The agent economy explained: how AI agents become paid digital labor

It is a shift from buying software seats to commissioning autonomous workflows, with identity, protocols, and settlement deciding who can be trusted and paid.

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Why stablecoins power agent payments: 24/7 settlement, finality, and clean unit economics

Stablecoins let software agents clear payments continuously onchain, then route fiat payouts and cross-chain USDC via networks like CPN and CCTP.

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X402 vs MPP vs AP2 compared: settlement risk, session credit, and mandates

X402 settles per HTTP request in stablecoins, MPP runs a pre-authorized session that batch-settles, and AP2 adds signed mandates for provable authorization.

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How AI agents pay onchain x402: the 402 retry loop that clears stablecoins

X402 turns HTTP 402 into machine-readable payment terms, then settles signed stablecoin authorizations onchain via a facilitator.

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What is x402 protocol: HTTP 402 payments for per-request access

X402 standardizes a 402-based HTTP handshake so APIs can quote, verify, and settle payments per request without user accounts.