{"topic":"agent-payments","title":"agent payments","url":"https://theexchange.tech/archive/agent-payments","description":"Dispatches on agent payments for AI agents in financial services.","questions":[],"count":1,"startHere":[],"articles":[{"title":"Fifty requests ran, four settled. x402 has appropriation rules and no monitor.","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/fifty-requests-ran-four-settled-x402-has-appropriation-rules-and-no-monitor","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/fifty-requests-ran-four-settled-x402-has-appropriation-rules-and-no-monitor.json","excerpt":"A systematic audit of x402 — 130 million transactions, embedded in Google Cloud, Cloudflare and Stripe — found four ways an agent can take the service and skip the payment. Against a production deployment the leakage ratio reached 97.76%; against the worst-case rate-limit configuration it reached 100%. None of these are rule failures. The rules are written down and correct. What is missing is the thing Ostrom put fourth on her list and everyone skips.","publishDate":"2026-09-10","author":"Nadia Osei","topics":["governance","agent-payments","x402","commons","settlement"]}]}