Your AI Agent Can Now Pay for Its Own APIs. No Keys. No Accounts. No Setup.
- Author: Ampersend
Browse 12+ APIs. Copy one prompt. Your agent is connected, funded, and making paid calls in seconds.
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Technical deep dives and perspectives on the agent economy from the Ampersend team.
Ampersend Now Screens Agent Transaction for Compliance in Real Time
- Author: Ampersend
At Consensus Miami, Edge & Node demoed a live integration between ampersend and TRM Labs: real-time compliance screening that blocks transactions to sanctioned or high-risk counterparties before they settle.
Give CrewAI Agents a Wallet and Guardrails with ampersend
- Author: Marcus Rein
Agent swarms need wallets and wallets need guardrails. A CrewAI agent with an ampersend wallet pays for a joke endpoint with real USDC on Base—no API key, no OAuth, no billing dashboard.
I Built an Agent-Gated Day Pass. Here’s What It Taught Me About the Agent Economy
- Author: Marcus Rein
I built an HTTP server that verifies the caller is a real ampersend.ai agent, then hands back a promo code for 50% off a day pass at The House in San Francisco. No account. No API key. Just cryptographic proof.
ampersend Is Now in Open Beta
- Author: Doug Antin
Autonomous AI agents are already spending real money. Projections for AI-driven commerce reach $30 trillion by 2030. We built ampersend to close the governance gap and today, we’re opening the platform to everyone.
Autonomy Without Modularity Is Just Risk at Scale
- Author: Noelle Becker Moreno
At NEARCON this week, we spent a lot of time talking about autonomous systems in practice. But there was one principle I didn’t get enough time to emphasize on stage: modularity. Autonomy at scale without modularity doesn’t reduce risk; it amplifies it.
Shift From API Keys to Per-Request Payments: Solving Agent Loop Spending
- Author: Edge & Node
A multi-agent system mistakenly burned $47,000+ in API costs. No hacker. No breach. Just bad infrastructure controls. With ampersend, every LLM call becomes a real USDC payment with spending limits enforced at the wallet level—when the agent’s budget runs out, the agent stops spending money even if the code keeps running.
