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x402 Launches Agentic.market — A Service Marketplace for AI Agents

The team behind Coinbase-backed payment protocol x402 has launched Agentic.market, a marketplace where AI agents can autonomously discover and purchase digital services without API keys.

April 21, 2026/2 min
Innovations

x402 Protocol Introduces Pay-Per-Use Model for AI Agent Compute

Coinbase has rolled out the Upto mechanism for the x402 protocol, replacing fixed fees with usage-based pricing for AI agents consuming computational resources.

April 10, 2026/2 min
AI

Alchemy Launches AgentPay: A Universal Gateway for AI Agent Payments

Web3 infrastructure provider Alchemy has unveiled AgentPay, a unified integration layer that connects fragmented AI agent payment protocols from Coinbase, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Circle under a single endpoint.

April 8, 2026/2 min
Innovations

How ERC-8004 and x402 Standards Are Turning AI Agents Into Market Participants

Blockchain standards ERC-8004 and x402 are building the infrastructure for autonomous machine payments, challenging Big Tech's closed ecosystems and the attention economy model.

March 27, 2026/5 min
AI

World Launches AgentKit to Verify Humans Behind AI Agents

World has released AgentKit, an SDK that cryptographically proves a real human is behind an AI agent's actions. The tool is built on top of the x402 protocol developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare.

March 17, 2026/2 min
AI

AI Agent Transaction Volume Is 15x Lower Than Bloomberg's Estimates, Says a16z Partner

a16z partner Noah Levine challenged Bloomberg's AI agent payment data, showing actual on-chain volume at $1.6–3M versus the reported $24M.

March 12, 2026/3 min

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