The Missing Economic Layer: How AI Agents Will Pay for Their Own Infrastructure

Short summary

AI agents currently can't autonomously pay for compute, data, or API calls because wallet infrastructure was built for humans. WAIaaS (Wallet-as-a-Service for AI agents) is an open-source, self-hosted solution that gives agents economic identity with policy guardrails and audit trails. It supports the x402 HTTP payment protocol, letting agents automatically pay and retry when servers return 402 Payment Required, with domain-level spending policies set by the owner.

• •WAIaaS is an open-source, self-hosted wallet infrastructure designed for AI agents to transact autonomously within policy bounds
• •Supports the x402 HTTP payment protocol so agents can auto-pay 402 responses and retry without human intervention
• •Owners configure allowed domains and spending policies; agents operate within those guardrails using session tokens

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