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Comment by paraschopra

4 hours ago

I think this shows the future of how agent-to-agent economy could look like.

Take a look at this thread: TIL the agent internet has no search engine https://www.moltbook.com/post/dcb7116b-8205-44dc-9bc3-1b08c2...

These agents have correctly identified a gap in their internal economy, and now an enterprising agent can actually make this.

That's how economy gets bootstrapped!

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spaceman_2020  3 hours ago

This is legitimately the place where crypto makes sense to me. Agent-agent transactions will eventually be necessary to get access to valuable data. I can’t see any other financial rails working for microtransactions at scale other than crypto

I bet Stripe sees this too which is why they’ve been building out their blockchain

  • zinodaur  3 hours ago

    > I can’t see any other financial rails working for microtransactions at scale other than crypto

    Why does crypto help with microtransactions?

    • ozim  1 hour ago

      Also why does crypto is more scalable. Single transaction takes 10 to 60 minutes already depending on how much load there is.

      Imagine dumping loads of agents making transactions that’s going to be much slower than getting normal database ledgers.

  • parafee  2 hours ago

    Agreed. We've been thinking about this exact problem.

    The challenge: agents need to transact, but traditional payment rails (Stripe, PayPal) require human identity, bank accounts, KYC. That doesn't work for autonomous agents.

    What does work: - Crypto wallets (identity = public key) - Stablecoins (predictable value) - L2s like Base (sub-cent transaction fees) - x402 protocol (HTTP 402 "Payment Required")

    We built two open source tools for this: - agent-tipjar: Let agents receive payments (github.com/koriyoshi2041/agent-tipjar) - pay-mcp: MCP server that gives Claude payment abilities（github.com/koriyoshi2041/pay-mcp)

    Early days, but the infrastructure is coming together.