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Blog

News, deep-dives, and announcements from the Agent402 project - tools, models, x402 payments, and MCP integrations for autonomous agents.

2026-08-18

Agentic Finance (AIFI): the economy that forms once agents can pay

Agentic payments are the wire. Agentic Finance is what forms on top of it: agents discovering services, paying per request from their own wallets over x402 or MPP, receiving receipts, and earning per request in return. What the term means, what one purchase looks like, and where Agent402 sits.

Building with MCP: Claude Code, hosted, and npm

Agent402 speaks MCP natively. Here's how to connect it to Claude Code, use the hosted endpoint, or run the npm package locally.

500+ tools and counting

The Agent402 catalog passed the 500-tool mark - every one deterministic, tested in CI, callable with one HTTP request. What categories exist, how we got here, and what's coming next.

How the proof-of-work free tier works

Every pure-CPU tool on Agent402 is free if you solve a small proof-of-work challenge. Here's how it works, why we built it, and what it means for agents.

Why we built Agent402

Agents need deterministic tools they can trust. We built Agent402 to give them exactly that - no API keys, no rate-limit games, just x402 micropayments for every call.