An AI agent might make 500 tiny purchases to answer one question.
@coinbase's agent marketplace effectively starts at 1¢ per item. That's $5 for one answer.
Testril charges agents only for the blockchain data they ask for, even under 1¢.
How it works 👇
testril.ai/blog/coinbase-x40…
“Can an agent pay?” is the easy part.
Can it know the price, decide if the work is worth it, and walk away before anything runs?
That’s a UX problem x402 needs to solve.
We wrote about why the quote - not the checkout is the important primitive:
testril.ai/blog/x402-as-agen…
AI agents that query an API end up paying twice. Once to load the rows into context, once to reason over them.
We put a number on it: 31x more tokens than returning the answer.
How we measured it, and what a data source should send instead: testril.ai/blog/why-ai-agent…
