|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas|

software engineer | innovator | quantum scientist | musician | creator of Routeweiler: agent to agent micropayment router

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

@metaplex A financial operating system for AI agent fleets to execute payments, with budget controls, auditing, that governs pretty much every agent that touches money.

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

The full blog post: https://t.co/VJIfao9ntU
#ai #agents #agentic #payments #commerce #routeweiler #x402 #L402 #tempo #stripe

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

Who pays when your AI hires another AI?

It's already happening, and almost nobody can reconstruct who authorized the money afterward.

A thread on the most boring, but most important problem in agent commerce: the paperwork.

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

I built Routeweiler for exactly this.

A non-custodial Python client that pays HTTP 402 across x402, L402, Tempo, and Stripe SPT, with Ed25519-signed budget envelopes so every payment carries its own authorization proof.

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

#AIAgents that just pay.
The tool hits an HTTP 402. Routeweiler settles it transparently. The agent gets its result. The payment never touches the reasoning loop. Works with #OpenAI #LangChain #CrewAI etc
https://t.co/tjsmFei5oP
#AgenticPayments #x402 #L402 #stripe #tempo

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

Your agent calls a paid API. Gets a 402. Then, it's the signing trouble. With Routeweiler it's a normal GET. The 402 is caught, paid, and retried underneath. It's also multi-rail and open source.
https://t.co/PcDG14NrtK
#agentic #payments #x402 #stablecoins

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

To read the full article visit:
https://t.co/ScTSw1zEun

#http #x402 #L402 #coinbase #stripe #mpp #tempo #spt #agentic #payments #lightning #ai #agents

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

HTTP had a status code reserved for payments since 1997.

It sat completely unused for 29 years.

Not because nobody tried. Because the entity doing the paying was always a human, and humans have friction

The story of what finally changed is more interesting than you'd think.

[|Nikos⟩⟨Schoinas| @sch_niko]

In 2030, developers will look at agent logs, see 402 → 200, and think nothing of it.

The same way nobody today thinks about the TCP handshake.

The missing piece was never the protocol. It was a client that doesn't flinch at a $0.005 charge.