Tag: payments
Why Stripe Is Acquiring OpenRouter
Why Stripe sees model routing, usage metering, billing, fraud control, and settlement as one economic layer for AI.
Let's Talk Money
Money money money... must be funny... in a rich man's world (Zuck, Elon & Larry). How we get to 1B Users in the Atmosphere.
Give AI agents an allowance, not the company card
Cloudflare plans bounded spending for agents. Who holds the keys—and how recovery works—remains unclear.
Agent payments get rails
Visa and OpenAI’s agentic-commerce partnership shows the payment layer becoming the permission layer for AI agents.
Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol
attested.network is an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol, built on what we learned making atprotofans.com. It formalizes the three-party attestation model and opens it up for any app to implement.
BHVR-x402
BHVR-x402 is a modern and lightweight stack for the open web and open payments
BHVR-x402
BHVR-x402 is a modern and lightweight stack for the open web and open payments
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.
Mis-swiping the Point
The NYC subway system—a mishmash of new and old technology—still struggles to build payment systems that work for everyone. And often, the tech often separates the haves and have-nots.