AI agents are becoming real economic actors.

Standards like x402 make it possible for software to pay software for data, APIs, and services on demand.

Recent research suggests the real unlock isn’t commerce itself, but machine-native access to the data and context agents need. When payments become native, data becomes a market, and trust shifts to the inputs agents act on.

At that point, controlling which data agents can access and rely on becomes essential to shaping how they behave.

Not your data, not your agents.

🤜smash it:

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