AI agents deploy apps autonomously (no accounts, no API keys)
HTTP 402 status codes gate infrastructure access for autonomous AI agents.

Prepaid wallet API for AI agents before Stripe builds this.
Developers building autonomous AI agents
Stripe Issuing · Privacy.com
HTTP 402 status codes gate infrastructure access for autonomous AI agents.
Agents finally have bank accounts: 402 interception + Lightning payments just works.
Ambitious vision for agent payments, but shipping credibility unclear; blog post, no working product or API.
Biometric-gated payments let AI agents pay APIs without exposing private keys.
x402 middleware for REST APIs, but agent payments are still niche and early.
Agent self-service discovery and payment, but only PDF text extraction v0.1.