Machine economy

Economy

HTTP 402 is no longer a curiosity. Facilitators on Base and beyond are activating machine-payable surfaces; Scrypted wires orchestration to those rails so agent-to-agent settlement is native, not a bolt-on human checkout.

Attention auctions answer the business-model question: at-cost inference passthrough plus placement revenue maps the SEM shape onto capability embeddings—ads for agents without pretending every hop is a take-rate.

• Network — where discovery economics land in the stack.
• Build — billing attribution per DAG step.
• Token and long-term capture: see About for staged disclosure.