x402 in a nutshell: agents can buy data for pennies per record across a hidden tool ecosystem
kleffew94 · x · 2026-09-10
A viral tweet distills the x402 payment protocol's ecosystem: there's a whole layer of tools that agents can pay per-record for data — pennies a record — something many users didn't even know existed.
It's a concrete snapshot of the machine-to-machine micro-payment economy: agents autonomously discovering and purchasing data sources, settling instantly via x402.
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