Brave bx402: Pay-Per-Search for AI Agents at $0.005 a Query in Stablecoins, No API Key, and Now Its Own Payment Facilitator

Brave already sells search to machines through the Brave Search API, at $5 per 1,000 requests with an account and an API key. Its public GitHub shows it building the next step: search that an AI agent can buy one query at a time, with no account and no key, paid in stablecoins at the moment of the request. The ...

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