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Payments Infrastructure

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September 2026

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7 min read

Stripe Cannot Bill a 5 Cent API Call (Yet). These Four Builders Can.

Inside Agent402, PayAPI Market, indie.money, and BlockRun, the pay per call shelves where an agent buys an answer for a tenth of a cent, and why a 30 cent card minimum kept that market closed for fifteen years.

Banking and Treasury

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September 2026

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6 min read

792,221 People Signed Up to Work for AI Agents.

Inside RentAHuman, RigorLoop, and Payman, the three builders running a labor market where the buyer is software, and the 20 to 25 cents on every dollar that Upwork and Fiverr are about to stop collecting.