Notes from the agent economy
Long-form writing on x402, machine-native payments, AI agents, and the data oracle space. Aimed at engineers shipping agent products.
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Worked example: an autonomous agent watches a Birkin for 30 days for $0.86
A concrete walkthrough of building an AI agent that polls Hermès stock through Luxe Oracle, alerts on availability, and buys a session token to keep costs predictable. Full code, real numbers, latency budget, and cost optimization.
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Inside a luxury data oracle: how Luxe Oracle scrapes, caches, and settles in <1s
A full architectural tour of Luxe Oracle — Playwright stealth scrapers behind rotating proxies, a BullMQ refresh worker, Redis with SWR caching, and an x402 paywall on Base mainnet that settles every paid call in under a second.
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Anatomy of an x402 payment: every header, every signature, every settlement
A line-by-line walkthrough of one x402 round trip — the 402 quote, the X-PAYMENT signature, the facilitator handshake, and the on-chain settlement on Base — with the actual headers and bytes you can expect.
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Why x402, not API keys: building APIs for autonomous agents
API keys assume a human signed up. Autonomous AI agents don't. x402 turns the HTTP 402 response into a first-class auth + billing primitive, so an agent can discover, pay for, and consume an API in a single round trip.
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