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How will agents pay for services, what do you think?

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By now there are multiple ways for agents (or, machines in general) to pay for services, without them requiring an API-key, complicated signup-workflows or similar. For me personally, a few protocols spring to mind immediately: x402: Owned by the x402 Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation), form…

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