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SlothPay: the sloth that pays for you - fail-closed agent payments with a local Gemma 3

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built SlothPay — the sloth that pays for you. Machine-payable HTTP (the x402 flow, where a server answers 402 with a price and your software just... pays) is powerful and slightly terrifying: your sof…

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  1. 2026-10-20 19:14 · DEV Community — AI
    SlothPay: the sloth that pays for you - fail-closed agent payments with a local Gemma 3

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