The Agentic Economy,
Written in Code.
Guides, engineering insights, and tutorials on payments routing, API monetization, and transaction rails built for autonomous software agents.
How to Connect PayAgents to Claude Desktop & Other LLMs (Cursor, OpenAI, Gemini) using MCP
Give your AI assistants an autonomous spending wallet. Connect payagents-mcp to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or custom agents built on OpenAI & Gemini to pay for APIs across Lightning & Base USDC with policy guardrails.
What Are Non-Custodial Agent Payments? A Simple Guide to Direct Settlements
Understand why zero platform custody matters for API creators, how direct peer-to-peer settlement works on Base USDC & Lightning, and how to set up your addresses in 2 minutes.
How to Monetize MCP Servers with Micro-Payments
Learn how to configure transaction policies and gate specialized Model Context Protocol tools behind multi-rail micropayments (Lightning & Base USDC) using payagents-mcp middleware.
A Guide to AI Agent Payments: Lightning L402 vs. Stablecoin x402
Compare routing performance, settlement speed, transaction costs, and SDK implementation differences between Lightning L402 and Base stablecoin x402 rails.
Power your agentic
infrastructure.
Integrate our multi-rail SDK and give your AI agents the capability to transact securely, with built-in spending policies and micro-payment support.