An analysis of a full snapshot of the x402 Bazaar — Coinbase's discovery catalog of 25,443 paid resources for AI agents. The real size of the agent payment market, the share of faked popularity metrics, and the shift in demand from data to paid actions.
// focus areas
Blockchain
EVM systems, protocol integrations, on-chain monitoring, performance, and reliability
Go development
APIs, microservices, middleware, messaging systems, and internal tooling
Machine payments
Tools, SDKs, and payment flows for machine-to-machine commerce over HTTP
Web3 engineering
Permissionless interfaces, protocol UX, and practical on-chain integrations
// latest posts
x402 Payment Schemes: exact, upto, and batch-settlement
Learn how x402 payment schemes work: exact for fixed-price payments, upto for usage-based billing, and batch-settlement for high-frequency micropayments via payment channels.
The Future of Subscriptions: How Machine Payments Could Change the Internet
How machine payment protocols such as x402, MPP, and APP could reshape subscriptions, enable pay-per-use services, and change the way users pay for software and online services.