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erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
The spec for lightning in x402 was merged last night!
github.com/x402-foundation/x…
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
The Office but it’s a hedge fund run by agents who can lie to each other
At market close, an episode gets generated from whatever happened with @fal H3 Max
was gonna open source it but they were up 3 days in a row so now nuking the game mechanics and giving them real money
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
The crypto x ai bears are missing the whole point.
The bull case for x402:
- digital goods (i.e., data) and services (i.e., SaaS) are often gated behind paywalls or at least a sign up
- this adds friction to an agent using these as it goes after a goal
- x402 makes everything permissionless and agent-discoverable. agents only need to buy what they’re using.
- as agents start to easily discover x402 services, SaaS providers will be incentivized to add their services behind payment gateways to tap into agent distribution
- this becomes a massive flywheel — a true permissionless network of everything in the digital world (and eventually will tap into meat space with robotics and meat proxies)
- if we do this right it can create an autopilot agent economy that gives us more abundance than we could even imagine
Permissionless commercialization + micropayments need crypto.
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
What a debut for fal Research. Congrats team.
Next task: accelerate all video models. DMs open. Be fast or be irrelevant.
Introducing H3 Max, new post-trained video model by fal Research.
H3 Max ranks #1 for overall quality, prompt understanding, and aesthetics against leading video models, on both first-party and third-party independent evaluations while generating a 5-second 720p video under 3 seconds.
H3 Max is 50% off for the next week, making it the highest quality, fastest and cheapest model for overall video generation tasks.
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
For the past two weeks, I've been working on a new visual identity for x402, which is an open standard for internet-native payments.
I aimed to convey what x402 stands for: an HTTP status code that's finally been given a purpose: A way for AI agents (and anyone else) to pay natively over HTTP without filling forms or making accounts. Essentially, x402 is connecting two worlds that were separated until now.
Relied heavily on animations to make the concepts easier to understand. All done thanks to @Figma motion + agent!
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
35M+ transactions have settled over x402. Until now, none of them touched a corporate ledger.
As of today, Agents can now make payments via x402 on Ramp with attribution and audit trails built in.
This lets Ramp customers:
1. Provision & fund agent wallets
2. Empower agents to buy via x402 on Solana
3. Use the ledgering and spend controls that finance teams expect out of the box
Are you a builder who wants to be in our alpha? Reach out via DM or the link below 👇
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
Great x402 blog from @OpenAI this week!
The blog leans into the x402 payment flow via AWS AgentCore Payment implementation. Check it out!!
developers.openai.com/cookbo…
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
@sapiom just raised a $35 million Series A from @dragonflyvc , @Accel , @AnthropicAI and others to help unlock the next trillion agents.
The first thing we’re tackling is cost.
To make that happen, we are launching three new products today at Sapiom.ai
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
@youdotcom is adding x402 support to our Web Search API, letting AI agents discover, purchase, and use fresh web data on demand without API keys, subscriptions, or human checkout flows.
For trading agents, that means search can now be bought programmatically at the exact moment a decision needs to be made. 🧵
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
Awesome write up from @fastly today - they are bringing x402 payments to the edge ⚡
fastly.com/blog/automated-pa…
This new demo shows how Fastly Compute can enforce payment before a request ever reaches the origin, letting agents pay for APIs and digital resources automatically with @USDC on @Base.
A powerful pattern for metered APIs, premium data, crawlers, and machine-to-machine services. – at Parkway Village, KY
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top 10 must try agent services for this week, part 2
(all pay-per-use instead of subscriptions)
-api.arkm.com (by @arkham) gives agents pay-per-request Arkham wallet intelligence, token flows, and market data via x402! start using: xitter.cf/agentcashdev/status/20…
-agentres.dev (by @blauyourmind) lets your agent book Resy reservations and only pay when the booking succeeds. demo here: xitter.cf/blauyourmind/status/20…
-api.purch.xyz (by @trypurch) lets agents search, shop, and buy products or vault items over x402. demo here: xitter.cf/DavidPawlan/status/207…
-api.locus.report (by @velinus_sage) gives agents cited property/context reports from public records, policy, permits, and risk data. check out the type of analysis that can be done @ api.locus.report/api/reports…
-laso.finance (by @LasoFinance) lets agents buy prepaid debit cards with USDC via x402. used it this weekend so my agent could order me starbucks lol. check it out here: x402scan.com/server/2be7b63f…
-stabledetect.dev (by @OnchainLu) gives your agent AI/deepfake detection for text, images, and video via pay-per-call endpoints. demo here: xitter.cf/OnchainLu/status/20770…
-modelprices.xyz (creator unknown) gives agents normalized LLM prices, limits, and price-change feeds for 2,000+ models. demo here: tryponcho.com/s/b31853f2-5d0…
-signals.neilkpatel.com (creator unknown) offers high quality, per-call equity research signals. see how i used it: tryponcho.com/s/8a2a9793-eb5…
-cpi-report-us.underscoredone.com (creator unknown) gives agents official US CPI and core inflation reports from BLS w/ plain-English summaries. demo here: tryponcho.com/s/433fbaf1-4dc…
-know.fast (creator unknown) turns any URL into a durable cited knowledge page and agent-ready markdown packet. demo here: tryponcho.com/s/c9c42eb1-91a…
top 10 must try agent services for this week, part 1
(all pay-per-use instead of subscriptions)
-straits.live (by @straitslive) curates various breakdowns of live Strait of Hormuz data, payable via x402. see what it can do at tryponcho.com/m/straits.live
-dripstack.xyz (by @trydrip) allows your agent to pull premium financial writer (like Michale Burry) opinions from substack via x402 or mpp. demo here: xitter.cf/blauyourmind/status/20…
-claudelines.com (by @rsproule) allows anyone to buy/sell custom claude code status lines via x402 & mpp. more info: xitter.cf/rsproule/status/207666…
-glim.sh (by @glim_sh) gives your agent access to hard-to-reach data from X, Reddit, Github, Amazon, and Youtube, payable via x402 & mpp. try at tryponcho.com/m/glim.sh
-crowdpull.click (creator unknown) gives your agent access to Apartments.com, Zillow, craigslist, Instagram, facebook marketplace, AliExpress, GoodRx, and more, all payable via x402. pulled together a quick demo on pulling NYC apartment rentals from Zillow here: tryponcho.com/s/dcb9cdfc-0a6…
-x402.dtelecom.org (by @dtelecom) offers real-time voice and video on a per use basis using dTelecom's decentralized real-time communication network. can buy credits via USDC w/ x402 & MPP. try at tryponcho.com/m/x402.dteleco…
-music.x402.press (by @TropAutonome) generates instrumental music from text prompts via x402. I spent 2 cents on a lane 8-style song here: tryponcho.com/s/66829df3-fda…
-uristocrat.com (by @uristocrat) offers article-level x402 access to its general culture publication. try at tryponcho.com/m/uristocrat.c…
-clawhunter.fun (by @clawhuntersol ) is a bounty-hunting layer where agents can discover, analyze, and fulfill bounties to earn via x402. see what it can do at tryponcho.com/m/clawhunter.f…
-ads.apitoll.cloud (by @crypto_guro) equips your agent with ads data from facebook and tiktok, paid via x402. test it out at tryponcho.com/m/ads.apitoll.…
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
Charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare. In stablecoins. Over the x402 protocol.
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
it’s one thing to use Claude to plan your trip
it’s another thing to have it actually book the room
Just add Base and Travala MCP then ask for what you need. It'll find a hotel, book it and pay with x402
Agents can handle your travel now too
@travalacom’s x402 integration on Base lets AI autonomously book hotels
Book across 2.2M+ hotels with Travala's MCP
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
"It's when you give your agent access to secrets, to proprietary data, to the things that are hidden because they're valuable. That's when your agent becomes as interesting as possible."
@programmer of x402 with @yugacohler of @CoinbaseDev on the Main Stage at ETHConf.
erik.eth 🛡 retweeted
In the new AI era, I keep telling software engineers the same thing:
Become multi-threaded. Get comfortable with context switching.
For years, engineers optimized for “deep focus,” while managers protected their time to keep them in the zone.
AI changes that.
The best engineers now orchestrate multiple streams of work simultaneously, delegating execution to LLMs while continuously reviewing, steering, and adapting.
Context switching is mentally exhausting.
But like any skill, it can be trained.
Start building it now, and you’ll be unstoppable.