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.
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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.
Monetizing APIs in the Agentic Economy: x402 Bazaar Explained
In a world where software calls software, distribution becomes a technical problem. This guide shows how to monetize your API and get discovered by agents through x402 Bazaar.
x402 `upto` vs MPP Sessions: Two Philosophies of Usage-Based Payments
A deep comparison of x402 `upto` and MPP Tempo Sessions: how they handle variable-cost payments, micropayment streaming, escrow vs allowance models, and when to choose each architecture for machine-to-machine payments.
x402 vs MPP: Almost Honest Comparison
An in-depth comparison of x402 and MPP covering architecture, payment models, facilitators, sessions, scalability, and protocol trade-offs for building machine-payable APIs.