Agents with Wallets: Building for the Machine-to-Machine Economy
summary
A weekend 50‑state marathon app hits five real engineering walls and gets live: infrastructure provisioned with Stripe Projects (52 providers, one command), discovery via Stripe Directory, agent wallets unlocked with Link agent wallet (30 seconds, no card handover, 15¢ demo purchases), agent-to-merchant checkout via UCP/ACS and shared payment tokens, and paid endpoints enabled by HTTP 402 using the Machine Payments Protocol — five lines of middleware and a 50¢ endpoint working end‑to‑end.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Is your open sign on for agents?
- 1:46A weekend marathon app hits five walls
- 3:03Wall 1: infrastructure with Stripe Projects
- 5:34Wall 2: discovery with Stripe Directory
- 8:16Wall 3: a wallet for your agent
- 12:06Wall 4: UCP, ACS, and shared payment tokens
- 15:13Wall 5: HTTP 402 and the Machine Payments Protocol
- 19:07Open for agents
