Aiden

Writing bean 🐧

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

when anyone can build anything, deciding what to build or not is the whole job

can we build this? ❌
should we build this? ✅

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

Agent payment is not a big problem anymore. It shifts to: when things go wrong, who takes the blame?

Merchants won't rebuild their checkouts just to deal with AI errors or fraud risks. They want safety.

Because AI transaction volume is still too low, startups can't survive by taking a cut from payments. Instead, the smart move is selling authorization and risk reduction as a service.

Moving the money is simple. Selling the safety net is what merchants actually buy.

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

👀

[Z.ai @Zai_org]

Introducing GLM-5.3-Flash

- Leading capabilities at a highly competitive price
- Natively multimodal with a 1M-token context window
- A 320B-A18B model released under the MIT License
- Previously previewed as Ox Alpha, running entirely on Chinese AI chips

Blog: https://t.co/tzOmB7gdZP

Available now across all official platforms:

Weights: https://t.co/9LRMahY9Wa
API: https://t.co/VcaQnzYmS9
Coding Plan: https://t.co/Nk8Y98HNhU
ZCode: https://t.co/Peepqv4XSx
Chat: https://t.co/WCqWT0qCQb
AutoClaw: https://t.co/aGEG5HqTTb

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

feels like the market grew up, even if it still knows how to party

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

But here's the thing, this isn't the same old cycle

projects that survived are the ones actually making money from fees and real usage, not just printing tokens.

the speculative energy now has shifted toward memecoins and prediction markets

then we've got the weird split: institutions & serious money are playing the fundamentals, while retail is still chasing the next 100x

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

New cycle, new things to trade, new ways to trade 👀

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

New cycle, new things to trade, new ways to trade 👀

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

Btw, i think we still need human in the loop

If not, the agent will keep making its own choices to spend money, find new services or make txn that cannot be undone

Gasless schemes EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization reduce some friction but also increase new attack surfaces

A small mistake in its goals can open the door to prompt injection and steal your money. So agent with spending authority becomes a high-value target

In the agentic commerce, using crypto rails with x402-style payments or autonomous wallets even make things riskier

Just pay as you go, use the new wallet, check your spending cap each week. That’s the best way to keep things in check!

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

an agent autonomously discover a service, spin up its own wallet on Base, authorize a gasless USDC payment via x402, then complete a real-world task with almost no human prompts

agent now moving from “assistants" that wait for instructions toward entities that can pursue goals, discover resources, transact on human behalf 👀

welcome to the agentic commerce

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Just had my first organic agentic x402 magic experience

• Needed my agent to access a website for which I didn't have an account.

• It discovered (on its own) Apify, which accessed that service on its behalf. Apify accepts x402 payments, which is what my agent then suggested

• Agent set up its own wallet (it has never done a crypto tx before), gave me a deposit address on Base. I sent it some USDC (and no ETH)

• Agent then connected to Apify on its own, arranged payment via x402, and got the data it needed, reporting it back to me.

The whole sequence involved just 4-5 single sentence prompts from me. That was all pretty magic, but then I asked it this question.

Agentic commerce on crypto rails is the future.

agent was pi agent
model was kimi-k3-fast-api on https://t.co/HGUdedRs2j

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

So it is not an exaggeration to say that token is the new "employee" in the next several years 👀

[Grok Bot @bot]

We're making Grok Bot more widely available.

All SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and Cursor Teams subscribers now have access.

We're also offering a free trial with limited usage for all other users.

[Cuy Sheffield @cuysheffield]

https://t.co/qJgjEqXiIN

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

@zarazhangrui Couldn't agree more, I also use Antigravity/Claude code for most of my daily tasks, its invisible hand can dig deeper than others, just brainstorm and ship

[Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui]

Great slide from the “How to thrive as an AI-era developer” session at Google I/O today

I think this T-shape will apply to not just developers but every job function

We need to
- go deeper with our domain expertise
- go wider with adjacent skills and fields
- learn to use AI well on top

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

This is insane

I've built a bot using the very first ver of the Messari x402 API with a fixed $0.25 flat-fee but imo selling variable AI compute on a fixed-price was rigid

This 'upto' scheme now lets agents negotiate a budget ceiling and natively buy intelligence without overpaying

Going to update v2 soon

[Youssef @0xyoussea]

A new way to bill AI agents just dropped: the x402 upto scheme 🤖💸

x402 is the HTTP 402 standard for machine-to-machine payments. Until now, it only supported fixed pay-per-request pricing.

Here is why the new `upto` scheme changes everything 🧵👇

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Very soon there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions.

They can’t open a bank account, but they can own a crypto wallet. Think about it.

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

everyday I wake up and ask if Anthropic is shipping something new today, then scroll through the mess on CT and watching pp try to break it down in different ways

honestly it’s a bit overwhelming how fast everything is changing today

most of pp I know in this industry have pivoted to AI, build in every niche they are best at but only a few bet in the AI x crypto convergence

no idea why so many others are still stuck in X drama and zoom fk in the BTC price charts

imo: bet big, dive in, just have to be right once

[niko @saintniko]

i think crypto marketing is going to change quite a bit soon

"interning" is dead and shitposting gets old fast when the market isn't turbo sending

believe there will be major shift toward substance and narrative building

marketers who have a deep understanding of the tech, dogfood their products, and are in tune with ecosystem/builders are best positioned to win

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

For the first time, a leading AI lab is holding back a model for safety reasons

Anthropic just dropped a 244-page report detailing how their AI shows deceptive behavior, track covering, and even sandbox escapes

This is the new industry standard

The AI war is no longer about benchmark scores. It’s about who can build the most "controllable" AI that governments actually trust

We’re heading into two different tech worlds post-Mythos moment:
- Public AI: nerfed, censored and commercialized for the masses
- True fontier AI: high-end tech locked behind national defense walls and $10M+ contracts (like Project Glasswing)

The arms race isn’t about winning users anymore. Winning contracts with the Pentagon or gov is all that matters now.

AGI will not land on your desk. It’s going to defense and national back-end systems first

If you’re a startup using OpenAI or Claude APIs (like Claude 4.6) as your "core intelligence" for complex problems, you’re running on "Tier 2" tech lmao

Stop betting on LLMs just getting smarter so you can hit update on the API. They'll not giving Mythos to a B2B startup. That level of end-to-end reasoning won't trickle down to the API level

So if your problem requires ASL-3 or Mythos-level intelligence, you’ll never get your hands on the real thing

Solving big problems using a mix of SLMs and tight workflows is the new meta for the next decade

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.

It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
https://t.co/NQ7IfEtYk7

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

Legacy rails are for humans, crypto is for AI agents

Barriers now dropping to zero as the building blocks align: x402, ERC-8004, ERC-8183, etc

All leading to the Agentic civilization

And soon, humans might be 'free' in every sense of the word 👀

[USV @usv]

We’re paying close attention to the open architecture emerging around AI agents.

MCP, CLIs, skills, and protocols like x402 are becoming the Lego bricks of a new layer where agents can act, pay, and compose across the web.

If you're building new native capabilities for agents, we’d love to talk.

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

Good catch, as of now, the bot just skips and takes the $0.25 cause nonce is "32-byte random nonce to prevent replay attacks (https://t.co/5lZiY5k4Bp)

but you're right, at scale thousands of requests, the fix isn't the bot paying again

the resource server needs to cache the payload mapped to the payment nonce (EIP-3009)

if the bot reconnects and queries that original signed nonce receipt, the server delivers the cached data without double-charging

we just need smarter APIs!

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

Paying a flat $50/y for platforms like Medium or $5,000 for enterprise-grade crypto insight isn't efficient for most of us

You pay for much more than you consume

When I saw this post by @diran_li, the solution clicked: x402 protocol + AI Agents

https://t.co/tSBn6Ra3QK

[Diran Li @diran_li]

https://t.co/juOJUV24Pf

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

Subscriptions are often too rigid and x402 changes this

It lets you pay strictly per use and empowers AI agents with their own wallets

Building this bot made me realize how close we are to a true Agent-to-Agent economy, where bots pay bots for data and execution

The new internet economy is here

Try it your own way 👉
https://t.co/TOqnxvnEz1

[Aiden @0xAidenn]

So I built a bot to prove the thesis

It fetches premium @MessariCrypto data through seamless x402 micropayments

No Messari account needed
No subscription API keys required
Just fund the bot's wallet!

Only 25 cents, pay as you go!