- Charge AI agents for data access
- Since agents don’t watch ads, the content creator doesn’t get rewarded for agent traffic, and gives away their content for free
- Lots of businesses on the internet depend on attention / ads for their business model
- With more and more traffic being AI traffic, they will be screaming for a solution
- This is also about ensuring valuable information lands on the internet. If you can’t monetize easily because of agent traffic, less information might be published.
- Counter argument: As long as there is similar information out there for free, agents will just use that. All compareable sites need to opt in to charging agents.
- Video streaming (YouTube, Netflix)
- No ads / replaces YouTube Premium
- Pay only for the second you stream
- Is that something that users would actually want however? 👎
- Any monetized API
- APIs added early to Bazaar will likely receive a big amount of traffic, so there will be a race to get in there
- This assumes agents read Bazaar to discover x402 content sources
- Probably will need KYC (needs legal input)
- What is our role here? API operators can just do this themselves. Someone does need to teach the MCP servers to include the KYC proof.
- We can do contracting here, bringing our crypto experience
- It is clear we have to focus on agentic use case first before human use case.
- Do we still need a human or business KYC that can be attached to the agent? Or will 8004 be enough for KYC? How do you stop bad actors and sanctioned entities from running agents? How do the endpoints know who is paying them and that they aren’t sanctioned?