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.
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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.
Guide to Agentic Economy Protocols: How Agents Communicate, Pay, and Discover Each Other
What the agent economy is, which protocols are shaping it, and how they fit together into a unified stack
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.