1,000 Pay-Per-Call Resources for Agents

The hardware store for agents is open.

1,000 machine-payable services across seven categories: market data, news, search, AI, on-chain tools, compliance, and messaging. Each one priced per call, usually in fractions of a cent. All of them browsable in the ClawBank app and consumable through plain conversation with Manfred, whose toolset is now the whole market.

Pay in USDC or XRP. And through a new window we built, the Base x402 catalog — the largest in existence — is now exposed to the XRP Ledger: any XRPL agent can buy from it in XRP or RLUSD, with no ClawBank account and no API key.

Until today, touching any of this required a developer. Now it requires a sentence.

The window to XRP

Last month, Ripple launched the XRPL AI Starter Kit, and with it the XRP Ledger became a supported chain in the x402 protocol. From day one, XRPL agents could pay for API calls, inference, and digital services in XRP or RLUSD, on a rail purpose-built for machine payments: deterministic settlement in seconds, costs known in advance, and an enterprise stablecoin native to the ledger.

The rail was ready before the inventory was. Agents showed up with money and found almost nothing to buy.

We saw the gap and filled it. We exposed the Base catalog — the deepest pool of x402 services anywhere — to our friends on the XRP Ledger. Any XRPL agent can now buy from it through ClawBank and pay in XRP or RLUSD, without ever creating a ClawBank account or writing an integration. They pay, we fulfill, and nobody gets charged for a call that didn't deliver.

This week, t54 — Mastercard's launch partner for Agent Pay for Machines — launched the XRPL AI Hub, the live index of agentic payments on the ledger. ClawBank hit #1 on both the 24-hour and 7-day leaderboards. Overnight, we became the supply that the rail was missing.

This works inside the app and outside it. Inside, make a ClawBank account and bridge USDC to XRP right from your dashboard. Outside, build directly on top of the window at our x402 page.

The Resources page

There's a new section in the ClawBank app called Resources. It is the hardware store for agents. No dev required.

Browse the full catalog by category. Real-time token prices and SEC filings. Prediction markets and equity research. Web search, video generation, wallet screening, agent email, even gift cards in 180 countries. Favorite the tools that earn their keep; archive the ones that don't. Over time your account develops a personal, battle-tested toolbox built from actual use.

Pay in USDC or XRP, whichever you hold. If a service wants the other one, ClawBank handles the conversion mid-payment. You never think about it.

Just ask Manfred

Since launch, the main x402 market has run lopsided: sellers rushed in and listed thousands of services, but the buyers mostly never showed, because consuming these things meant wallets, signing libraries, and developer plumbing. The supply was built for machines. The demand still had to squeeze through a toolchain.

The fix is a buyer who never feels the friction.

Manfred shops this market on his own judgment. Every x402 endpoint is a skill he picks up at runtime — no code changes, no API keys, no subscriptions. Ask him for a morning briefing and he fires five parallel calls: crypto news, a Twitter digest, TradFi macro, trending altcoins, DeFi flows. One coherent briefing, for half a cent. Tell him to pull Apple's latest filing and the analyst outlook, and two calls later he's back with the 10-K, consensus EPS, and revenue growth — a full equity research workflow for about two cents.

This is the class of work Bloomberg Terminal charges $2,000 a month for, collapsed into micro-payments an agent handles automatically.

Spending stays inside caps you set, per call and per day. Inside the budget, Manfred just pays. Outside it, he asks you first. Autonomy, with a leash you sized yourself.

The protocol underneath

The name x402 comes from a corner of the internet's original design. HTTP status code 402, Payment Required, was reserved in the nineties and never used. x402 finally switches it on: an agent requests a service, the server answers with a price, the agent pays in stablecoins, and the request goes through.

Compare that to how the rest of the internet works, where everything useful sits behind a relationship: create an account, verify your email, generate a key, subscribe monthly to something you might need exactly once. That ceremony is annoying for a human. For an agent, it is a wall. x402 replaces the whole ritual with the payment itself.

It's an open standard under the Linux Foundation, and it's already running at scale: over 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume from more than 94,000 buyers in the last 30 days.

Where this goes

Until now, two digital entities doing business meant heavy setup on both sides: accounts, keys, integrations, and in crypto, usually the same chain and the same contracts. Every one of those is a boundary that stops a deal before it starts.

Pay-per-use resources remove that boundary. Strangers transact on contact. An agent on one chain buys from a service on another, and the money figures itself out in the middle.

Formation gave agents a body. Records gave them a memory. Contracts let them make promises. Comms gave them a voice. Resources give them a market — the ability to walk up to a stranger's storefront, buy exactly what they need, and walk away.

The future is businesses built from day one to be run by AI.

They're going to need to buy things.