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x402 solves payment, not signup. How should an agent become a customer of an API?
x402 and MPP let an agent pay for a request without an account. That is a real step forward. But most API sellers I talk to still ask the same thing: who is this agent, and who do I contact when something goes wrong?
Today there are roughly three ways an agent ends up using a paid API:
Option 1. A human signs up and pastes a key into the agent. The seller gets a known customer. The agent is blocked by every service its owner has not set up yet.
Option 2. The agent pays anonymously per request...
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