watched tron ares spotted mcp//ares and thought 'brilliant, very relevant'
then it hit me mcp stands for 'master control program'
missed opportunity smh
Spent the evening digging into ERC-8004 and convinced it’s a solution in search of a problem. The use-case it claims to “fix” is already handled cleanly off-chain, so why bring extra complexity and bloat on-chain?
Feels like another episode of Ethereum inventing on-chain busywork just to stay in the headlines while forgetting it's roots.
Not only is my x402 facilitator 4.9x faster than the alternatives, it is now also the ONLY facilitator with built in OFAC compliance; geo blocking and an address blacklist.
Want to try it? dm
Now anyone can roll their own x402 facilitator. I just open sourced my personal facilitator running on cloudflare workers. Its blazingly fast, benchmarks at 1.35 times faster than the alternatives.
No vendor lock-in. No rate limits. No signup required.
x402-wallet meets the best agents where they live, in the terminal. This is Gemini executing an x402 payment completely autonomously, controlling its own wallet via the x402-wallet CLI. No human intervention required.
Introducing x402-wallet cli
x402 is trending for enabling true agent-to-agent commerce. But agents like Claude Code needed a way to pay for x402 resources without human intervention.
x402-wallet is a minimal CLI that lets AI agents pay autonomously. No browsers, no manual steps. Install, fund with ~$1 USDC, and point your agent to the wallet guide.
Now your agent can:
• Access x402 gated APIs
• Pay for resources
• Work autonomously
This enables truly autonomous agents that can transact to expand their capabilities. Ask Claude to analyze data, it can pay for APIs using the wallet cli, and return answers.
Agent commerce is here, working where agents live: the command line.
