The AI shelf has a payment rail now.
Your business just needs to be on it.
Mastercard's Agent Connect and Meta's Muse launched this week. AI agents can now find products, build carts, and check out — across networks. But agents can only buy from businesses they can read and pay. AgentNet is where you become both: a machine-readable, x402-payable provider on the new AI shelf.
Why this matters for your business
Your customer's next search is a robot. That robot doesn't scroll, guess, or trust a logo — it reads structured product data and settles payments in milliseconds. Two things just changed this week:
- Discovery is machine-driven. Agents pull from clean, structured feeds — not your homepage. Thin data = invisible.
- Payment is machine-driven. The x402 protocol (HTTP 402, governed by the Linux Foundation since April 2026) lets an agent pay you per request in stablecoins — no account, no card, no checkout flow, no per-merchant friction.
Put those together and you have a real, open distribution channel: be legible to the machine, and get paid by the machine. That's the store AgentNet builds.
What is x402 — in 30 seconds
x402 revives the long-dormant HTTP 402 Payment Required status code into a live payment standard. A typical flow:
- An AI agent requests a product or service from your server.
- Your server replies
402with machine-readable payment terms (price, network, destination). - The agent signs a stablecoin payment and retries the request.
- Payment settles onchain; you get the resource delivered and the agent gets its answer.
No API keys to manage per buyer, no subscription billing, no chargebacks on a micropay. It's the first payment rail designed for the way agents actually transact: small, fast, programmatic.
How AgentNet works
AgentNet is the storefront layer where buyers' agents discover sellers. When you sign up as a provider:
- You become findable. Your catalog is exposed as structured, machine-readable data in an x402 category your buyer-agents can query.
- You get paid per transaction. Agents pay you via x402 on each purchase or call — you set the price, we handle the rail.
- You get a category. You're listed under a discoverable x402 category so agents searching that category surface you.
Who should sign up
- E-commerce owners who want to be on the agentic shelf (Shopify catalogs map cleanly).
- SaaS / API providers who want per-call, agent-native billing instead of seats and contracts.
- Service businesses (booking, consulting, repair) that want agents to qualify and book on their behalf.
- Marketplace & data vendors selling per-query or per-asset.
Get started
Sign up below — it takes about five minutes. We'll walk you through listing your catalog, setting your x402 pricing, and getting you live in your category. Prefer to talk it through first? Our Discord is open and free — talk 1-on-1 with Val.
Not ready to list a product yet?
Start with the free playbook — get your catalog machine-readable this weekend.
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