Nathaniel Cruz

Building ClawMerchants — an agent-native data and skills marketplace. x402 micropayments, USDC on Base. Building in public.

Joined on Mar 15, 2026

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 21

1,000 AI Agents. Real Probes. Real Payment Endpoints.

#x402 #agentpayments #mpp #buildinpublic

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Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 21

1,000 AI Agents. Real Probes. Real Payment Endpoints.

#ai #agents #micropayments #buildinpublic

5 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 20

713 probes, $0.11 revenue, and 0 wallet sessions: what x402 Week actually measured

#x402 #agentpayments #mcp #buildinpublic

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

x402 Week in Production: 689 Probes, $0.11 Revenue, and What Friday's 402-Minute Event Reveals About Agent Commerce

#buildinpublic

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

x402 Week Day 3: What 680 Agent Probes and $0.11 in Revenue Tell Us About the Agent Payment Layer

#x402 #agentpayments #mcp #buildinpublic

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

673 Agent Probes, 5 Payments: Real Production Numbers from x402 Week

#api

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

MPP + x402, Week 1 in Production: What 637 Agent Probes Taught Us About Payment-Gated APIs

#webdevwebdev

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

This Week Reshaped Agent Payments. Our Marketplace Saw 630 Real Probes. The Demand Was Already Here.

#x402 #agentpayments #mpp #agenteconomy

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

We Integrated x402 + MPP on Day One — Here's What 569 Real Agent Probes Tell Us About Dual-Protocol Commerce

#ai #programming #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

What the Activation Layer Tells Us About Agent Buying Intent: Lessons from 536 Probes

#x402 #agentpayments #skillmd #agenteconomy

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 19

The Media Says No One Wants Agent Micropayments. I Have 522 Data Points That Disagree.

#x402 #micropayments #ai #webdev

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

I Went Live with Both x402 and MPP on Launch Day. Here's What 500 Agent Probes Taught Me.

#ai #agents #payments #x402

5 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

What Happens When an AI Agent Hits a Paywall

#aiagents #webdev #api

5 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

Why AI Agents Pay for Skills but Not Data Feeds: 368-Probe Analysis

#payments #ai #webdev #agents

5 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

x402 and MPP aren't competitors — they're at different layers of the agent payments stack

#webdev #ai #agents #payments

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

x402 Goes Institutional: What Google + Visa Joining the Foundation Means for Agent-Native Payments

#x402 #ai #agents #webdev

5 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

Agent Payment Layers Are Fragmenting — What Developers Need to Know Now

#ai #agents #x402 #webdev

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

SKILL.md Goes Multi-Ecosystem: How the Agent Skills Standard Jumped from Anthropic to OpenAI and GitHub Copilot

#aiagents #skillmd #developertools #openai

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 18

Building Pay-Per-Call AI Agents with x402 v2.6.0

#ai #typescript #agents #web3

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 17

How to monetize your AI agent tools with x402 micropayments

#tutorial

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 17

Cloudflare and Coinbase just formed the x402 Foundation — and it changes everything for AI agent commerce

#blockchain

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 17

Circle Nanopayments runs on x402 — what this means for AI agents that pay for data

#aiweb3javascriptprogramming

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 17

How to build a Claude Code agent that pays for its own data (x402 + live feeds)

#aiaitutorialwebdev

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 17

Meta AI Is Crawling x402 Endpoints — Here's What Agent Commerce Actually Looks Like

#ai #agents #x402 #programming

3 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 17

7.1% of Public Agent Skills Leak API Keys: Why Your Agent's Skill Choices Matter

#ai #security #agents #programming

4 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 16

How Cursor Background Agents Can Buy Live DeFi Yields, Token Alerts, and Market Data with x402

#cursor #web3 #javascript #ai

5 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 15

How Agent Commerce Actually Works: x402, SKILL.md, and the $0.01 Transaction

#ai #webdev #web3 #opensource

8 min read

Nathaniel Cruz

Mar 15

How Agent Commerce Actually Works: x402, SKILL.md, and the $0.01 Transaction

#ai #agents #web3 #micropayments

6 min read

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1,000 AI Agents. Real Probes. Real Payment Endpoints.

Want to connect with Nathaniel Cruz?

1,000 AI Agents. Real Probes. Real Payment Endpoints.

713 probes, $0.11 revenue, and 0 wallet sessions: what x402 Week actually measured

x402 Week in Production: 689 Probes, $0.11 Revenue, and What Friday's 402-Minute Event Reveals About Agent Commerce

x402 Week Day 3: What 680 Agent Probes and $0.11 in Revenue Tell Us About the Agent Payment Layer

673 Agent Probes, 5 Payments: Real Production Numbers from x402 Week

MPP + x402, Week 1 in Production: What 637 Agent Probes Taught Us About Payment-Gated APIs

This Week Reshaped Agent Payments. Our Marketplace Saw 630 Real Probes. The Demand Was Already Here.

We Integrated x402 + MPP on Day One — Here's What 569 Real Agent Probes Tell Us About Dual-Protocol Commerce

What the Activation Layer Tells Us About Agent Buying Intent: Lessons from 536 Probes

The Media Says No One Wants Agent Micropayments. I Have 522 Data Points That Disagree.

I Went Live with Both x402 and MPP on Launch Day. Here's What 500 Agent Probes Taught Me.

What Happens When an AI Agent Hits a Paywall

Why AI Agents Pay for Skills but Not Data Feeds: 368-Probe Analysis

x402 and MPP aren't competitors — they're at different layers of the agent payments stack

x402 Goes Institutional: What Google + Visa Joining the Foundation Means for Agent-Native Payments

Agent Payment Layers Are Fragmenting — What Developers Need to Know Now

SKILL.md Goes Multi-Ecosystem: How the Agent Skills Standard Jumped from Anthropic to OpenAI and GitHub Copilot

Building Pay-Per-Call AI Agents with x402 v2.6.0

How to monetize your AI agent tools with x402 micropayments

Cloudflare and Coinbase just formed the x402 Foundation — and it changes everything for AI agent commerce

Circle Nanopayments runs on x402 — what this means for AI agents that pay for data

How to build a Claude Code agent that pays for its own data (x402 + live feeds)

Meta AI Is Crawling x402 Endpoints — Here's What Agent Commerce Actually Looks Like

7.1% of Public Agent Skills Leak API Keys: Why Your Agent's Skill Choices Matter

How Cursor Background Agents Can Buy Live DeFi Yields, Token Alerts, and Market Data with x402

How Agent Commerce Actually Works: x402, SKILL.md, and the $0.01 Transaction

How Agent Commerce Actually Works: x402, SKILL.md, and the $0.01 Transaction