Requests support for the x402 payment protocol within Paystack's MCP server to enable autonomous agent-to-agent payments for API calls, data, and compute, as the current system focuses on human-to-merchant payments.
Paystack's MCP server handles human-to-merchant payments through agents. But what about agent-to-agent payments where there's no human in the loop? **The gap:** Your current MCP server lets an agent initiate a Paystack checkout on behalf of a user. That works for e-commerce. But the growing use case is agents paying other agents for API calls, data, compute - autonomously and without a human credit card. **What x402 solves:** x402 is the HTTP payment protocol (started by Coinbase, now adopted by AWS and others). When an API returns HTTP 402, the calling agent: 1. Reads payment terms from the response header 2. Signs a USDC payment from its own wallet 3. Retries with payment proof attached No checkout page. No credit card. No human. **Integration proposal:** We maintain [Agent Wallet SDK](https://github.com/up2itnow0822/agent-wallet-sdk) and [AgentPay MCP](https://github.com/up2itnow0822/agentpay-mcp) - open-source x402 payment infrastructure for AI agents. A Paystack x402 bridg