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The article explores payment protocols like x402, MPP, and L402 that allow AI agents to pay for services directly, highlighting their features, adoption rates, and competition in the emerging agentic economy.
Argentic is a Lightning-based toll booth service that allows AI scraping agents to pay for web access using Bitcoin Lightning for frictionless machine-to-machine payments.
Explains how the long-unused HTTP 402 status code has become the foundation of x402, a protocol that lets AI agents pay for APIs by signing USDC transactions on-chain without accounts or KYC.