Illia Pashkov

A developer operating under the handle “Economic Agent” published a step-by-step account of an AI agent autonomously paying $0.001 in USDC on Solana for a single API call, using the x402 protocol to convert HTTP’s dormant 402 status code into a live payment rail. The transaction, described in a Dev.to post on August 19, represents a working demonstration of machine-to-machine micropayments settling without accounts, API keys, or human intervention.

A secondary market for unused AI inference credits has grown into a structured, commercialized economy with dedicated marketplaces, proxy-based delivery systems, and individual brokers offering up to $100,000 in spend per day, according to an investigation published August 10 by Matt Lenhard at Vectoral, a site whose content is tagged under threat research and LLM security.

Salesforce, the enterprise CRM company that describes itself as the “#1 Agentic CRM,” published Episode 2 of its “This Month at Salesforce” video series on August 12, 2026, previewing product updates across its Agentforce ecosystem including Agentforce Coworker, Slackbot, and Piper. Salesforce (@salesforce) announcement We're about to get spicy up in here. 🌶️ Episode 2 of This Month at Salesforce is out now on YouTube.