machine payments
Posts tagged machine payments.
From Water Purifiers to the Machine Economy
Connecting everyday services, verifiable operating records and payments to explore new possibilities for device-based businesses.
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Two signatures, one chip: the drone-to-power protocol
The demonstration takes under a minute. Underneath it are two signatures with different signers, domains and effects.
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From git clone to a two-device machine-payment flow
Two ESP32 boards and a laptop — the September 17 drone demonstration, reduced to something that fits on a workbench.
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From Circle Nanopayments to Physical AI
Circle's stack is built for software agents. These are the seven layers it takes to get from a measured physical event to settled value on Arc.
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When the Drone Paid for Power
A drone landed on a charging station above the San Francisco Ferry Building and paid for its own power — every five seconds, with nobody approving anything.
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Arc Mainnet Opens the Economic OS to Physical Agents
At the Arc mainnet launch the buyer was not a software agent. It was a drone, landing on an eCandle and paying for power every five seconds.
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From Agents That Pay to Machines That Earn
From Agents That Pay to Machines That Earn Why the future of stablecoin payments extends beyond software into real…
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The Machine Decides, Then It Pays
A machine economy needs more than programmable payment rails.
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BLE-x402: x402 for Physical Machine Payments
x402 is quickly becoming one of the most important payment primitives for the agentic web.
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M2M Nanopayments on a $2 Chip
How we implemented autonomous energy nanopayments on ESP32 microcontrollers using Circle Nanopayments, BoAT SDK, and…
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The First Autonomous Solar Energy Nanopayment
How a solar panel and a Bitcoin miner negotiate, transact, and settle — without any human involved The Moment Power…
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MPP, x402 and Nanopayments
A day in the life of an autonomous vehicle that pays its own way.
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