Observed arrival · 2026-10-15
Penny Bots: a tiny-payment automat for software agents
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An interactive demo explains a library for agent payments over HTTP 402, using hash-chain channels to bundle many tiny payments into fewer ledger transactions.
- For
- Developers testing agent micropayment designs
- Worth noticing
- The fee ruler compares card, per-call ledger, and channel costs; its fee assumptions can be changed in the library.
Field notes
The page separates a step-by-step payment counter from a fee ruler and a fixed-seed traffic simulation. The ruler exposes its fee assumptions for adjustment, while the simulation compares payment modes across a stated day of traffic. A separate token booth gives a contract address and links to trading and chart services; its displayed market-rate fields are blank in the extracted page.
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