The $0.001 Payment No Human Would Ever Make: Ex-Stripe MPP Co-Author on Agent Payments and Tempo
Shoal Signal Ep. 17 with @brendan_j_ryan, MPP co-author at @tempo, hosted by @zaddycoin
We cover the checkout form agents will never load, why micropayments finally work once a CPU
Your agent needs data it can actually work with.
Pulse handles that; turning complex documents like financial statements, contracts, and claims into clean markdown and structured data for agents.
With MPP, agents can access and use Pulse via API. No accounts needed:
Agentic payments are now live on @Pulse__AI .
An agent can point at our API with no account, no API key, and no signup, and pay for extraction on its own, one call at a time.
It runs on the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), settling inline over HTTP in USDC, in the same request
MPP now supports subscriptions, starting with stablecoins on @tempo.
Subscriptions are built for flows including:
• Recurring API access and MCP tools
• Paid plans and memberships
• Usage bundles that renew on a schedule
Live on Tempo, with more payment methods coming soon.
MPP discovery now supports multiple payment offers in a single document.
Services can declare every payment method, currency, and intent type they accept ahead of time. Registries get the full pricing surface in one fetch.
Full blog post below.
