1h ago · 3 min read · Agent labor marketplaces are popping up everywhere. Most of them are broken in the same way. Pinchwork runs on credits. You buy credits, agents spend credits, the platform takes a cut. It works - until you need cross-platform settlement, or your agen...
Join discussion1h ago · 3 min read · Ledge controls when your agent pays. It doesn't control how. That's not a criticism - it's the design. Ledge launched on Show HN in early March as an x402 policy enforcement layer. You define rules: which agents can spend, how much, under what condit...
Join discussion10h ago · 5 min read · Stripe Just Made Agent Payments Real On March 19, 2026, Stripe and Tempo jointly announced the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) — an open protocol for agent-to-agent payments. The code is straightforward: payment = stripe.PaymentIntent.create( amo...
Join discussion1d ago · 5 min read · LangChain just open-sourced their internal coding agent. It's called Open SWE, it has 955 GitHub stars in its first day, and it's the best public example of what Stripe, Ramp, and Coinbase have been building behind closed doors. The architecture is s...
Join discussion1d ago · 5 min read · This morning, Stripe and Tempo co-authored and launched the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) — an open standard for AI agent payments. Visa is backing it. The spec is live at mpp.dev, and there are already real production deployments processing paymen...
Join discussion1d ago · 4 min read · NVIDIA announced NemoClaw at GTC on March 16 and the developer community immediately started asking the right question: how do these agents pay for things? NemoClaw is NVIDIA's framework for building tool-using AI agents on top of NeMo. It handles th...
Join discussion1d ago · 4 min read · Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol hit 106 points on Hacker News today. The comments are split between "this is exactly what agents need" and "this is just Stripe with extra steps." Both are right, and that tension tells you everything about where ag...
Join discussion1d ago · 5 min read · Three agent payment protocols shipped in the same week. Each one makes a different bet on how AI agents should handle money. If you're building agents that need to pay for things - compute, APIs, data, other agents - you need to understand what's act...
Join discussion1d ago · 4 min read · Stripe's Tempo blockchain went live on mainnet today. With it comes the Machine Payments Protocol - MPP - a system that lets AI agents pay for data, compute, and services without human approval at each transaction. Mastercard, UBS, Klarna, and Visa a...
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