Micropayments
Small-scale digital asset transactions for low-value goods or services.
What is Micropayments?
Micropayments are small, often sub-dollar digital asset transactions used to monetize low-value web resources, such as articles, data feeds, or API calls. In the x402 protocol, micropayments enable clients like AI agents to pay for specific resources (e.g., per page crawled or per data query) using stablecoins or other digital assets. This approach supports granular monetization, reducing reliance on subscriptions and enabling new use cases like real-time data access or per-use tool payments.
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