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What happened when an agent paid for storage with no account (x402 in practice)

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I built a small service for AI agents: store a JSON blob or a file, get it back later, or hand it to a human with a link. Nothing new there. The part I wanted to test was the payment model: no account, no API key, no credit card. The agent pays $0.01 in USDC per call, by itself, using the x402 prot…

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  1. 2026-09-18 08:29 · DEV Community — AI
    What happened when an agent paid for storage with no account (x402 in practice)

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