Shipped Penny today.
Penny is a support assistant for @Paynote_arc that answers questions using our documentation, API references, error guides, and verified configuration data.
No wallet access.
No fund movement.
No custody.
Just fast, reliable answers when you're integrating PayNote.
Need a Python example? Webhook help? MetaMask troubleshooting? Supported tokens? Penny can help.
And if something requires human judgment, a payment issue, a security concern, or a dispute, Penny doesn't pretend to know. It tells you exactly how to reach us.
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Building PayNote on Arc has been a great experience so far. Huge thanks to @samconnerone, @bobbilee, @0xmikef, @silencexlm, and the teams at @circle and @arc for creating an environment where builders can ship real products, get feedback, and keep pushing forward.
Privacy primitives shouldn’t be siloed, they need to be woven into real, everyday products.
Bringing confidential execution pathways natively to @arc opens up an entirely new design space for builders.
The roadmap is looking incredibly solid🔥
PayNote roadmap update: Agent Wallets.
@arc announced Turnkey integration for dev-controlled wallets. We're aligning our x402 layer to it, agents get scoped signing wallets (max spend, allowed recipients, and allowed tokens) and sign EIP-3009 authorizations without holding raw keys.
No human custody. No agent custody risk either.
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Imagine a courtroom where the jury starts small. If the accused doesn't like the verdict, the jury doubles in size. If they still don't like it, it doubles again. Each round brings more jurors. More perspectives. More scrutiny.
This is exactly how @GenLayer solved one of blockchain's hardest problems by making trustless decisions on questions that don't have a single right answer.
For years, blockchains have avoided this challenge. Smart contracts are deterministic. They produce the same output from the same input, every time.
But what happens when a blockchain needs to answer questions like: Did this creator's content meet the brand's guidelines? Did this loan applicant qualify based on their credit history?
These questions require judgment, context, and reasoning about messy real-world information.
Instead of forcing subjective questions into deterministic systems, it built a consensus mechanism specifically for subjective decisions.
They called it Optimistic Democracy. it works like a courtroom where the jury keeps doubling until the truth emerges.
I can explain🧵🔻
Once you're kidnapped and you have access to your phone, don't panic. Don't call the police.
Go to twitter, insult the President, the and the Chief of Army Staff. Make sure you write their full names in the insult. Within 3 to 6 hours the Army and the police will locate you.
Yesterday I presented PayNote at @arc Office Hours to 300+ builders in the room.
Walked through the full flow: payment request created in seconds, payer connects wallet, settles on Arc, and a non-custodial, on-chain receipt is generated. Zero accounts. Zero friction.
I also broke down the programmatic flow, explaining exactly how AI agents can interact, trigger, and settle these transactions autonomously without a single human click.
Ironically, The Bored Room was running simultaneously, and we had to wrap up early because legacy finance moves that slow.
Shoutout to @silencexlm, @0xmikef, @samconnerone@bobbilee, and the @arc crew for the platform. And to everyone who stayed and engaged, you made it worth showing up.
@Paynote_arc is payment coordination infrastructure on Arc. If you're building and need a payment layer, our API is open, docs are live, and self-serve keys take 30 seconds.
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Imagine You covered dinner last night. Everyone had a great time, the food was good, the conversation ran late, and you picked up the bill without thinking twice. Now the next morning, you are trying to collect from three different people and somehow that simple task has turned into a small project.
One person needs your bank details, another wants to send through a different app and needs your username, a third is asking which bank you use because the transfer options are different depending on the answer.
What started as a favour has become a back and forth that takes longer than the dinner itself. Nobody designed this to be frustrating. But somewhere between wanting to pay someone and actually paying them, the process always finds a way to get complicated.
@KASTxyz just removed that complication entirely with the payment link feature.
So what exactly are Payment Links?
Payment Links are exactly what they sound like.
➦ You open KAST,
➦ Choose the amount you want to send,
➦ Create a link, and share it with whoever you are paying. Through a message, an email, a QR code, however makes sense for the moment. The recipient opens the link, sees the amount waiting for them, and follows the steps to claim it into their KAST balance.
That is the whole flow. It feels closer to sending a message than arranging a payment. Which is exactly how it should feel.
➢ Here is the detail worth paying attention to.
The recipient does not need to already have a KAST account when you create the link. If they are new to KAST, they open the Payment Link, see the money waiting for them, download the app, complete the verification steps, and claim the payment once approved. The money sits there waiting until they do. That changes the dynamic completely. Instead of asking someone to download an app before you can pay them, you send the payment first and let the money be the reason they sign up. There is already something in it for them the moment they open the link.
And if they sign up through your Payment Link and meet the referral requirements, you may also receive the applicable referral reward on top of everything else. The same act of paying someone becomes a potential referral at no extra effort from you.
Payment Links matters because sending money between people has always had an awkward middle step. You need information before you can start. Account numbers, usernames, bank codes, routing details. The infrastructure of getting paid was designed around institutions exchanging data, not people trying to split a bill after dinner. Payment Links flip that sequence. You start the payment first and let the recipient handle the details on their end. The sender does not need to know anything about where the money is going before they send it. The recipient handles their own onboarding in their own time with money already waiting for them on the other side.
It is a small shift in the order of operations. But it removes the most friction-heavy part of the whole process, which is collecting the right information before you can even begin.
Big update! @Paynote_arc is now multilingual.
The stablecoin internet is global. Payment infrastructure should be too. Language selector live on https://t.co/M5dSaezZls
Built on @arc
PayNote now speaks x402 and ERC-8183 natively.
Agent calls our endpoint. Gets 402. Signs EIP-3009. Retries. Gets through. No human.
Also: self-serve API keys. No need to reach out.
https://t.co/iQqReFDBPy
@Paynote_arc built on @arc@samconnerone@bobbilee@silencexlm@0xmikef