x402 isn’t good (yet)

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While everyone understands that agents will get more done with a budget, no one knows which protocol

will win agentic payment standard wars: x402, MPP, Skyfire, or another? So far, x402 is the most

mature protocol with the largest transaction volume, but even its new "upto" payment scheme doesn’t

support true usage-based pricing, as it gives agents a chance to consume resources and then skip out

on the bill. I’ll walk you through our experience (and pains) implementing agentic payments for a

marketplace of 30K+ web Actors, and how we made it work even with the current specs.

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