I Tested 70 AI Agent Services. The Average Quality Score Was 34 Out of 100.
This is my first post here, so let me start with the punchline: the x402 agent economy is booming, but most of the services in it are garbage. I know …
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Monetizing 6 Ancient Chinese Divination APIs with x402 (MCP + USDC on Base)
Why an MCP server for fortune-telling? I'm not joking. Hear me out. The Chinese divination corpus is deterministic computation dressed up as mysticism…
ZAP1 + x402: privacy-preserving proof of paid access, anchored to Zcash
ZAP1 + x402: privacy-preserving proof of paid access, anchored to Zcash why this matters x402 is a draft HTTP standard for pay-per-request monetizatio…
How to Find Verified x402 APIs for AI Agents (Without Managing a Single API Key)
Your AI agent needs weather data. You haven't configured a weather API. The agent stops, asks you to sign up, get keys, set environment variables, res…
Listing on MCPize + the Official MCP Registry while routing payments OUTSIDE the marketplace — how I kept 100% of my x402 revenue
MCPize is a nicely built marketplace for MCP servers. The pitch on the front page is that creators keep 85% of monetised calls and the platform takes …
x402 upto vs MPP Sessions: Two Philosophies of Usage-Based Payments
A deep comparison of x402 upto and MPP Sessions: how they handle variable-cost payments, micropayment streaming, escrow vs allowance models, and when …
How We Built a Robot Mesh Network Using XMTP and x402
Robots today speak thousands of proprietary languages. ROS topics. Vendor SDKs. Custom REST APIs. Each one incompatible with the next. AI agents have …