Andreas Banholzer

Beginner’s Guide: Agents That Pay for Themselves — X402, MCP, and On-Chain Actions in Chat Imagine an agent that doesn’t just “call this API” or “hit that backend” for you, but also pays along the way: 0.01 USDC for a full article, a small amount for an on-chain action, a fee for a complex data query — all directly from within the conversation. That’s the direction the combination of X402, MCP, and MCP Apps is moving toward. X402 adds a payment channel based on HTTP 402 and USDC signatures, MCP defines h...

A year that feels like ten Looking at AI and crypto in December 2025, it feels like someone hit time-lapse x10. About a year ago, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard that lets models talk cleanly to tools, data sources, and apps. Since then, the ecosystem has moved at absurd speed. Big players like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft have adopted MCP and woven it into their agent stacks. The first generation of models that don’t just “kind of support” MCP, but have a...

As we step into the digital dawn of 2024, the landscape of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is undergoing a remarkable evolution, heralding the arrival of the Bitcoin NFT Summer. This transformative period is marked by the innovative application of Digital Matter Theory (DMT) and the pioneering efforts in the realm of Bitcoin inscriptions, which are setting the stage for a new era of dynamic NFTs. The Meteoric Rise of Bitcoin Inscriptions and the Birth of Dynamic NFTs First Inscription by Casey Rodarmor On Dec...