It seems super funny how corpos are trying to push stablecoin agentic payments with complicated schemes. Writing payments for every api call into blockchain, even the corporate one, is super expensive. So they make super complicated facilitators which would make it possible. It's basically prepayment to a third party.
We have Cashu (npub17fz…9yxv). Just include the token in request headers and get change if needed. No back and forth required. The API can claim the payment immediately on the mint. Even if you consider the threat model the same (mint=facilitator), the protocol is much more elegant. And even getting Cashu tokens can be done over lightning, so lower exposure and still no on chain fees or waiting.
I think the problem is that people are scared of sats as the unit. Originally I thought it's custody risk (and I mean mainly regulatory risk), but facilitators are custodians. I think it's just cultural. And Coinbase / Circle pushing their product.
Economic implications: Each usdc held on Base or elsewhere is financing American government. And each Base transaction helps the pnl of Coinbase.
Each sat held and used helps the parallel way. I made my choice. Better tech, better privacy and no financing of monopolies on violence. That's why my agent has a Cashu wallet. And I'd gladly finance good mints with some fees.
Juraj
npub1m2…lr8p9
2026-05-02 07:23:06 UTC
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2026-05-02 07:23:06 UTCEvent JSON
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