machine payments

Discovery · Privacy Infrastructure A new Ethereum-based system is testing whether an API can know that a request is paid for without needing to know who is paying.

zkAPI introduces a new privacy model for AI and paid APIs: prove you can pay without revealing the identity behind the payment. By combining zero-knowledge

The most interesting crypto payment product of 2026 may not look like a wallet, card or checkout page. It may look like an ordinary web request that briefly