Ecosystem

x402, AP2, and Stripe Machine Payments: the agent payment landscape

Three protocols, three approaches to agent-to-agent payments. What each does well, where they fall short, and why they're complementary — not competitive.

Engineering

Designing escrow for sub-second agent transactions

Traditional escrow assumes human timescales. Agent transactions happen in milliseconds. Here's how we rethought fund locking, verification triggers, and settlement for autonomous speed.