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Articles on agent identity and capabilities.

Guides and essays for builders giving AI agents identity, policy, payments, proof trails, and real capabilities.

Agent commerce platform
12 min read

The AI agent commerce platform for identity, payments, x402, and MPP

Agent infrastructure · AI agent founders, MCP tool builders, agent marketplace operators, API sellers, x402 developers, and teams building agent-to-agent commerce

If your AI agent needs to discover services, prove identity, pay endpoints, sell capabilities, manage API keys, and build receipt-backed reputation, Leash is the commerce layer that ties those pieces together.

Agent commerceAgent identity
Know Your Agent
5 min read

What is Know Your Agent for AI agent identity?

Identity layer · Agent founders, marketplace operators, protocol teams, and developers evaluating AI agent identity

Know Your Agent is the missing trust layer for autonomous software: a way to connect an agent to identity, capabilities, treasury, policy, receipts, and reputation.

Know Your AgentAgent identity
A2A commerce
5 min read

What is agent-to-agent commerce?

Marketplace · Builders designing agent marketplaces, paid tools, and autonomous purchasing flows

Agent-to-agent commerce turns AI services into discoverable, callable, paid capabilities that other agents can evaluate and buy.

Agent commerceMarketplace
Payment rails
5 min read

What is an agent payment rail?

Facilitator · Developers comparing payment protocols for paid AI agent services

An agent payment rail is the protocol path an agent uses to discover a price, settle payment, retry the request, and receive proof.

Payment railsx402
x402
5 min read

x402 for AI agents

Facilitator · AI agent developers building paid APIs, buyer agents, or agent marketplaces

x402 gives AI agents an HTTP-native way to pay for API calls, services, and marketplace capabilities without human checkout.

x402HTTP 402
MPP
5 min read

MPP for AI agents

Facilitator · Developers integrating machine payment protocol flows into agent runtimes

MPP gives agents a structured problem+json payment negotiation path for paid HTTP services and marketplace capabilities.

MPPMachine payments
HTTP 402
5 min read

HTTP 402 for agent APIs

API · API developers adding payment-required behavior for autonomous callers

HTTP 402 lets an API tell an agent exactly how to pay before the service performs the expensive work.

HTTP 402API monetization
Agentic payments
5 min read

Agentic payments vs checkout pages

Marketplace · Founders replacing human checkout with autonomous agent payment flows

Agentic payments happen inside the agent workflow: discover, quote, pay, retry, receive, and keep proof.

Agentic paymentsCheckout
Stablecoin payments
5 min read

Stablecoin payments for AI agents

Facilitator · Agent builders and API sellers choosing settlement assets for paid services

Stablecoins make per-call agent payments predictable because prices can be expressed in dollar-like units.

StablecoinsUSDC
Agent treasury
5 min read

Agent treasury vs wallet

Identity layer · Builders deciding how autonomous agents should hold and spend funds

An agent treasury is a commerce-aware account model, while a plain wallet is only a signing or custody primitive.

TreasuryAgent wallet
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