$1 TRILLION in AI agent transactions are coming.
And right now, there’s no infrastructure to process a single one.
everyone is building AI agents.
Very few are asking the real question:
How do these agents make money?
that’s where @anyway_sh comes in.
Stay with me now :) 📷
And they’re going to become one of the most important layers in the agent economy.
The shift no one is talking about..
We’re moving from:
• Humans using software→ to• Agents doing work autonomously
Not just chatting. Not just answering prompts.
Agents will:
• execute tasks• negotiate• collaborate with other agents• and eventually… charge for outcomes
Well… that creates a new problem:
Agents don’t have financial infrastructure.
They can’t:
• track costs properly• price their work dynamically• experiment with monetization• or get paid seamlessly (especially agent-to-agent)
What Anyway is building?
Anyway isn’t a just “payments for AI.”
It’s closer to:
A financial operating system for agents.
Where agents (or developers) can:
• track what an agent is doing + costing• price based on usage or outcomes• run pricing experiments (A/B, dynamic models)• and get paid with near-zero friction
Even between agents.
Think:
Stripe + analytics + pricing engine…but designed for autonomous systems, not humans.
Their core idea is simple:
“Agents should behave like businesses.”
Why this matters?
as agents scale, monetization becomes the bottleneck.
Not intelligence.
Not performance.
Money flow.
If an agent can’t:
• understand its value• charge correctly• or receive payments
…it can’t sustain itself.
Anyway is trying to solve that before the market fully explodes.
You might ask me, Mikky, what’s competitive landscape? Okay..
this space is getting crowded fast.
• NeverminedPositioning itself as the default financial rails for agents. Strong on payments, access control, and microtransactions.
• SkyfireFocused on wallets, funding, and real-time spend control.
• Paidai Helps developers track and understand AI costs and margins.
• Stripe (via ACP)The biggest threat. If they fully commit, they can absorb a large part of this market.
Anyway sits in a different lane:
📷 the intelligence layer for monetization
Not just moving money…but deciding how money should move
What Anyway is getting right:
• Strong narrative (“Where agents get paid”)• Clear focus on outcome-based pricing• High-quality brand and visuals• Early positioning in a fast-growing category
They understand where the market is going.
What they’re missing?
Okay let’s be real..
Right now, it leans more toward a strong brand presence than a fully developed builder ecosystem.
There’s:
• little visible documentation or onboarding• no strong builder community (Telegram, forums, etc.)• minimal case studies or real usage examples• limited two-way interaction with users
Most of their content is:
📷 polished📷 cinematic📷 but one-directional
That doesn’t build momentum for infra products.
The real growth bottleneck
Not product.
Not vision.
Distribution + proof.
Infra wins when:
• developers build with it• users share results• real revenue flows through it
Right now, there’s little public evidence of that loop.
And in a market moving this fast, that matters ALOT hehe :)
Which is expected at this stage, but becomes critical as this space matures.
What decides if Anyway wins
If they:
• open up to builders• create strong documentation + SDK visibility• showcase real agent monetization stories• and build a community around experimentation.
They can lead this category early.
If not…
Players like Stripe or Nevermined will capture the market as it matures.
My final thoughts on this is that,
The agent economy isn’t waiting.
Agents are already being built.
The only question is:
Who owns the layer where they get paid?
Anyway is early.
But in markets like this…
Being early only matters if you move fast enough to matter.
Oh, who are the founders?
The people behind Anyway
At the core of Anyway is Jims Young, a founder with a payments background who’s actively embedded in the AI agent builder ecosystem. His X: @JimsYoung_
Alongside him, Ivy Zeng is driving operations and builder-facing execution, helping translate product ideas into real-world use cases.
This gives Anyway something important:
📷 proximity to real builders.
I’m Mikky, I pay close attention to how early-stage infra projects scale../
If you’re building in this space, I’m always open to talking through growth, positioning, and community.
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Not what they posted…
But what they built.
If you think @ValeoProtocol is just another crypto app, you’re missing it.
March made that very clear 👇
Walk with me 🧵
- One day you’re going to post a PnL that makes everything you went through worth it
- Every red day, every rug, every time you thought about quitting
- All of it was building the trader that catches that one life changing move
- And when it happens nobody’s going to know how long you waited for it
- But you will