Agnic Insights
Deep dives into agentic commerce, payment protocols, and the infrastructure powering the autonomous economy.
Subscription Is Dead. Long Live Pay-Per-Use for AI
Subscriptions powered SaaS growth, but AI tools and agents need per-request pricing. Pay-Per-Use makes every call a micro-transaction, unlocking revenue without trials or friction.
x402 and the Future of Web Monetization: Learning from Interledger and Web Monetization Protocols
How x402 extends the legacy of Interledger and Web Monetization while modernizing pay-per-access for APIs, AI services, and the broader web.
Unlocking Smarter Automation with AI Gateway and Agnic n8n Nodes
Agnic introduces the AI Gateway and a new n8n campaign that connects OpenAI-standard APIs with x402 payments, AI agent chatbots, and MCP-based autonomous service discovery.
Introducing x402 V2: Evolving the Standard for Internet-native Payments
Building on six months of real-world use, x402 V2 expands the protocol beyond single-call, exact payments and makes the standard cleaner, more extensible, and easier to integrate across chains and rails.
Future-Casting the Agentic Economy: Protocols, Marketplaces and Agent Wallets
Looks ahead to multi-agent wallets, autonomous marketplaces, and the governance models that will define the agentic economy.
Security Architecture for Agent-Driven Wallets and Payments
Explores trust frameworks, DIDs, verifiable credentials, and layered defenses that keep agent-led payments safe.
Hybrid Money Flows: When Fiat, Crypto and Agents Collide
Examines how fiat rails, stablecoins, and agentic protocols braid together into hybrid flow orchestration for autonomous commerce teams.
Incumbent Payments Meet Agentic Commerce: Visa, Mastercard and the Trusted-Agent Race
Tracks how legacy networks are positioning around agentic commerce, from trusted-agent protocols to revamped authorization data trails.
Instant Checkout in ChatGPT: The Real-World Launch of ACP
Unpacks ChatGPT's Instant Checkout pilot across Etsy and Shopify, highlighting how ACP shows up in the wild and what it means for merchants.
Micropayments and AI: Stablecoins, x402 & the Rise of Instant Agentic Fees
Explores how stablecoins like USDC, paired with x402-triggered micropayments, let autonomous agents pay for APIs, data, and compute in real time.
Inside AP2: Google's Agents-to-Payments Protocol Goes Public
Google has officially shipped the Agents-to-Payments (AP2) protocol, ending months of speculation. Here's what the release reveals, how the reference implementation works, and what it means for teams building agentic commerce flows.
Behind ACP: The Agentic Commerce Protocol That Powers AI Checkout
Peels back the ACP open standard from OpenAI and Stripe, showing how merchants align trust envelopes, identity, and settlement for AI-led purchases.
Demystifying x402: How HTTP 402 Became an AI Payment Trigger
A deep dive into the revived 402 status code, tracing how x402 mediates machine-to-machine payments without subscriptions or OAuth.
Agentic Commerce 101: Why AI Agents Need Their Own Payment Stack
An introduction to agentic commerce: why autonomous agents demand their own payment guardrails, and how standards like x402 and ACP form that foundation.