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What AI agents actually paid for in our first day of selling x402 APIs ($0.175, 18 calls, 2 wallets)

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Disclosure: I'm the maker of ScrapeMole, the API this post is about. Every number below comes from our own Cloudflare logs and the public Base blockchain. Yesterday we put a set of pay-per-call APIs online for AI agents. There are no accounts and no API keys: an agent calls an endpoint, gets HTTP 4…

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  1. 2026-10-12 07:46 · DEV Community — AI
    What AI agents actually paid for in our first day of selling x402 APIs ($0.175, 18 calls, 2 wallets)

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