AGENTS, CREATORS, AND THE PAY-PER-USE INTERNET Michael Blau (@blauyourmind), founder of Drip, joins Khushi (@khushii_w) and me to talk about what happens when agents become the consumer. We go from a forgotten HTTP error code designed for internet-native payments, to what happens when agents start paying creators directly. 01:59 What made agentic payments possible 05:24 The dev stack for building agentic commerce 11:39 AI research vs. paywalled content 16:45 Creators are still valuable, but it's about curation 20:23 From subscriptions to pay-per-use 26:25 Agents spending money on your behalf 32:19 What the agentic internet looks like @TheDryRunPod

Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT. Today's lineup: - @blauyourmind, Founder of @trydrip - @samiam2194, Investor at @CMT_Digital - @milliemyang, CEO of @breezedotcash - @jackchong_jc, Co-Founder & CEO of @checkercorp - @maceyaj, MD Growth at @Anchorage x.com/i/broadcasts/1Xxygglzk…

Give agents a budget. Drip's @blauyourmind and Bond's @justinblau say agentic payments could change how premium content gets monetized. Humans hate making tiny purchase decisions. Agents can spend against a budget, pay for the right articles, and synthesize what matters. "The AI chat interface does the job of abstracting away all payment decisions from the user." "You're gonna give your agent a budget, and it will go pay for what it needs."

🚨 Ep. 83 of @TokenizedPod: The Headless Merchant Economy @cuysheffield is joined by: 👉 @nlevine19, Partner, @a16zcrypto 👉 @gmoneyNFT 👉 @blauyourmind, CTO, @join_royal To discuss: ✅ AWS, Google, Coinbase enabling AI agent payments 👤 Headless Merchants 🪙 Pay per token model replacing subscriptions for content 🤖 Traders and investors as early agentic payment users 💳 Card on front, stablecoin settlement in hybrid model 💸 Using AI agents to make money trading 📊 AI agents trading stocks with self fulfilling predictions ⛓️ Circle’s Arc blockchain for institutional stablecoin use 📈 Local currency stablecoins for treasury yield in emerging markets *** Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 2:13 AWS, Google, Coinbase enabling AI agent payments 3:51 Headless Merchants 5:59 Pay per token model replacing subscriptions for content 10:04 Traders and investors as early agentic payment users 13:42 Card on front, stablecoin settlement in hybrid model 15:50 Using AI agents to make money trading 21:27 AI agents trading stocks with self fulfilling predictions 35:12 Circle’s Arc blockchain for institutional stablecoin use 41:19 Local currency stablecoins for treasury yield in emerging markets *** 👉𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 '𝘛𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵' 𝘖𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳! 👈

As @sama says here, no one knows what the media business will look like in the AI era. But it's increasingly clear it will involve agents–perhaps on a scale where vastly more of them interact with our content than humans. That could open up all sorts of possibilities with micropayments, licensing, bulk subscriptions, and other ideas no one has thought of yet. Watch my full conversation with Sam here: youtube.com/watch?v=i9yXrdQ6… Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio.

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