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Notes on machine-native payments.
How autonomous agents pay for APIs, tools, and data. The ideas behind Tael and the x402 protocol.
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Payments infrastructure for AI agents
Tael lets any API, model, or service charge autonomous agents per call in USDC. No billing system, no accounts, no sales, no integration beyond one line of code.
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Agents can think. They can't pay.
AI agents can reason, plan, and ship code, but the moment they need to buy something, a human has to step in. Here's why, and what a payment layer for agents actually looks like.
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