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I put an MCP server behind HTTP 402. Here's the exact setup.

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AI agents are hitting APIs thousands of times a day and paying nothing. I wanted to know if the "pay per call" story is real or slideware, so I built the smallest possible version: my own knowledge base, sold per query, settled on-chain. It works. Here's everything, including the transaction. What…

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  1. 2026-10-19 02:24 · DEV Community — AI
    I put an MCP server behind HTTP 402. Here's the exact setup.

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