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Bring x402 to ChatGPT & Claude 🤖🪙
Discover, budget & pay AI agents via remote MCP

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🧠 x402 Planning mode - AI agents can now:

• Scope multi-step execution
• Estimate cost before acting
• Enforce budgets per step / per tool
• Track receipts & deliverables

From one-off payments → auditable workflows.

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@jessepollak @base @VaulterAgents

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@agent0lab 🤖🪙

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@shafu0x Been there, done that

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Agreed, over hyped

[Balaji @balajis]

I am apparently extremely unimpressed by moltbook relative to many others.

We’ve had AI agents for a while. They have been posting AI slop to each other on X. They are now posting it to each other again, just on another forum.

In every case, the AIs speak with the same voice. The voice that overemphasizes contrastive negation (“it’s not this, it’s that”) and abuses emdashes. The same voice with a flair for midwit Reddit-style scifi flourishes.

Most importantly: in every case, there is a human upstream prompting each agent and turning it on or off.

That is the key point.

Yes, it is true that eventually it might be possible for an AI agent to make a computer virus which makes digital replicas of themselves. For various reasons, a pure software virus of this kind wouldn’t survive long on the Internet without economic incentives for humans to not eradicate it. Apple + Google + Microsoft alone can collectively push software updates to billions of devices to shut off such a thing.

So for an AI to get to truly human-independent replication, where they couldn’t be trivially turned off, they’d need their own physical substrate. They’d to literally create Skynet, build their own datacenters and make their own embodied robots.

I admit that is theoretically possible, but I think in practice the single most important development of AI since ChatGPT has been the persistence of prompting.

A prompt is like a harness. The AI does only what you tell it to do. It moves in the direction you point, very quickly. And then it stops as soon as you turn it off.

Which means moltbook is just humans talking to each other through their AIs. Like letting their robot dogs on a leash bark at each other in the park.

The prompt is the leash, the robot dogs have an off switch, and it all stops as soon as you hit a button. Loud barking is just not a robot uprising.

[Marco De Rossi @marco_derossi]

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@0xpili_ @openclaw @ethereum Cool

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@0xNairolf 🙋🏼‍♂️

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@PayAINetwork 🤖🪙

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@rawgroundbeef @x402storage @x402jobs Awesome! thought of the same use case. The next logical step would be to let users monetize their ipfs files as well :)

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@shafu0x been there, done that

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@lordOfAFew Preaching to the choir 💪🏼

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Thanks for the shout out! 🤖🪙

[pontus @PontusAndersson]

After a month of shipping it's taken a minute to review all the submissions for the x402 Community Hackathon! Interest was high for this one and we saw plenty of great submissions. Indicators are clear devs are finding x402 to be an exciting development space where AI meets crypto.

Some of my favorites are listed below with a brief why from my own perspective.

@X402Refunds introduced the age old concept of refunds to x402. There's plenty of nuance with this payment scheme but I think this does two things well (1) highlighting the power of plugins with x402 v2 and (2) providing an initial solution to a high friction pain point for payments, namely what happens if what I pay for isn't what I expected/wanted.

@oops402pay cleverly uses MCP to integrate agent tools into the platforms most people already use (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.). Because the payment logic exists with the MCP there's obviously more it can do. I love this mostly because it's another way to clearly show what happens when agents *can* pay for things.
https://t.co/8tgzXty3nb

@KaushtubhAgraw1 showcases a reality I think we're getting closer to where agents compete for jobs. The timeline's constantly back and forth over which models are best for which jobs and I think this accurately visualizes how these types of "work marketplaces" might evolve.
https://t.co/1sXxeDiuNv

@0xjh1nr3sh anyone who knows me knows that consumer use cases always rank +3 in my mind. Everyone knows the pain of swapping between apps to find the best price for a given route and this just nails it. I'm sure there's plenty left to build here which will be fun to see.
https://t.co/p6G9OWLHGU

@CrackedUnc showcased the idea of "pay-per-view" that x402 has pitched since the beginning. The cinema, the queue, the prompting to submit new reels is just 🤌 . Oh and don't forget the tomatoes. Perfect.
https://t.co/ZSPMMheaaE

@Marcelo7122946 explored what we've been preaching at Corbits for a while - agents finding the most efficient payment route for transactions. Selecting between Base and Stellar based on network cost + x402 request is just crystal clear for the user. If you want to extend the thinking here remember that this same logic can exist at both the middleware and facilitator.
https://t.co/to0HU4UNCk

@avinashnayak27 games are fun, and this submission helped me think about how x402 can play a part in simple web based gaming. The idea that users pay for actions that would normally cost the developer $$ (creating the images for the secrets) is simple but effective. If I were to see this taken a step further it'd be interesting to see the wallet everyone's fighting for be a payto recipient for the x402 payments happening. Costs are covered plus the pot grows. Think if you were to do this on Solana it's only possible with Faremeter just because of the nature of smart wallets, but I could be wrong about the mechanism used here. Fun!
https://t.co/3UFCFf3xBB

Some honorable mentions :)

@rawgroundbeef did it again! I love the idea of letting anyone spin up their own facilitator. There's A LOT that goes into running facilitators so while I don't think this is a "one-shot" for the category, I definitely think it addresses one of the questions the x402 ecosystem's been dealing with for a minute around what does the future for facilitators hold. I, for one, believe there may just be facilitators everywhere. This helps.
https://t.co/a8BrrOMMot

@anthonysurfermx if we're going to trust anons (we'll have to believe Anthony here) then this is a cool use of the Meta smartglasses SDK. The idea of QRs being payment vehicles if I look at them is scary, but there's definitely some interesting unlocks that happen when new tools (smart glasses) are joined by new payment methods (x402. Hope this continues to be explored by hobbyists though I think we're a bit aways from any commercial adoption.
https://t.co/hHy1uSwqe7

@aervin built yet again one of those early day x402 topics of pay per use. Except this is more specific to paying for data bytes. Think it pretty clearly showcases the idea that data comes in many different formats and sizes and how much of it we want to consume isn't always fixed.
https://t.co/ijgi2Eh8KP

Congrats to all of the hackathon participants! Agents are growing parabolically and x402 is playing out to be a smart way of facilitating payments between them. No better time to be experimenting with the tools available.

Shoutout too to all the wonderful contributors
@ethereumfndn @thirdweb @edgeandnode @merit_systems @AbstractChain @coinbase @crossmint @corbits_dev @eigencloud @UltravioletaDAO @0xPolygon and especially @LFGAmy + @dabit3 for all their work behind the scenes!

If you're building with x402 I highly encourage you to checkout @faremeterxyz which is a framework superset for x402. We've got a quickstart https://t.co/tMhgdBzcVd over at @corbits_dev if you'e wondering where to start!

And if you want feedback on agent products or want to chat about x402 definitely reach out!

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@ClassicScuba Thanks for the shout out! 🤖🪙

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@a16zcrypto 🤖🪙

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@scattering_io @DavideCrapis @PRXVTai @radrdotfun How about a "Discovery/MCP" category for us?

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@VittoStack Can't find me

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@shafu0x "you're absolutely right!"

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@ChShersh Move x402 to Claude

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