Guides, tutorials, and updates on L402 micropayments, charging for your tools, and the machine economy.
Today an agent can pay for tools through bolthub. Next: list an API, deploy a node, and audit your endpoints, all from inside your agent, all without bolthub ever touching your keys.
Prepaid credit across a provider's endpoints, scoped sub-agent delegation, automatic free retries on upstream failure, and verifiable payment receipts. Four features that make L402 feel built for autonomous agents, not retrofitted for them.
A seller's guide to shipping agent-ready endpoints on bolthub: clean data, the right pricing model, tight responses, prepaid credit, delegation, and why origin protection is non-negotiable.
We built an x402 stablecoin rail, evaluated it, and removed it. The case for going all-in on Lightning, and how Node Launcher removes the one real catch.
Introducing the bolthub API Hub, a public catalog of L402-protected APIs where AI agents and developers can discover and pay for data.
A technical tutorial on building AI agents that autonomously discover and pay for API data using L402 and the bolthub Python SDK.
A step-by-step guide to putting your API behind an L402 paywall using bolthub. No code changes to your existing API required.
A comparison of card processors and L402 for API monetization: transaction minimums, settlement speed, and what works for AI agents.
L402 combines HTTP 402 with Lightning invoices for instant, anonymous micropayments on API access. The missing payment rail for autonomous AI agents.
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