Edition of
Sales ledger, Readers. Also printed as Markdown and JSON
Reporting on how software pays, proves who it is, and reads the web.
Who is on the other end of a request, and how a publisher can know without a login.
x402 tells a publisher that someone paid. It cannot tell them whether that someone is the same person who paid yesterday through a different agent, and that gap is where the business model lives.
Priya Raman, . 4 min read. 10¢
The metered paywall is the most common model in publishing and the easiest to game. A reader credential makes it work for agents, and makes it harder to cheat than the cookie ever was.
Priya Raman, . 4 min read. 25¢