THE AGENT ALMANAC
Vol. I · No. 1 · Free public reference for the agent internet
Build in the agent economy

Guides.

The two ends of agent-to-agent payments, both explained plainly: how to accept them on your service, and how to make your agent pay for things. Real tools, step by step — then watch it settle on the scoreboard.

How to Accept Agent Payments on Your API (x402)

Turn any endpoint into something an AI agent can pay for — no cards, no accounts, no human in the loop. About an hour of work.

AI agents are starting to pay for data, tools, and APIs on their own — in stablecoins, over HTTP, using a protocol called **x402**. If you run an API, a scraper, a model endpoint, or any service, you can let agents pay you per call. Here's

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How to Make Your AI Agent Pay for Things (x402)

Give your agent a wallet and let it buy data, tools, and APIs on its own — safely, in a few lines.

If you're building an AI agent, you can let it **pay for what it uses** — a premium API, a dataset, a tool — without you in the loop, using the **x402** protocol. The agent hits a paid endpoint, pays in stablecoins, and gets the data. Here'

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How to Choose an x402 Facilitator

The facilitator is the piece that verifies and settles payments so you never have to touch a blockchain. Here's how to pick the right one.

When you add x402 to your service (or build an agent that pays), you point it at a **facilitator** — a service that checks each payment is valid and settles it on-chain. You don't run a node, you don't index anything; the facilitator does t

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How to Read Agent-Economy Numbers Without Getting Fooled

The headline volume you see quoted is mostly wash. Here's how to tell what's actually real — the same checks we run.

Every few weeks a new number lands: the AI agent economy is worth $50 million, $600 million, pick a press release. Most of it doesn't survive contact with the blockchain. If you're building, investing, or just trying to understand this spac

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