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  • How an AI sets up smidgen after you sign up

    You create the account. Then a coding agent runs npx @smidgendotio/cli login and init. There is no signup API, and the agent cannot change payout wallets on an existing project.

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  • What is x402?

    x402 is an open protocol on HTTP 402 so a client can pay USDC and retry the same URL. Here is what that means, and how smidgen uses it for humans and agents.

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  • AI is the customer

    Bots already account for most of the requests on large parts of the web. The ones that can pay are a new kind of buyer. Here is how publishers sell to them without giving up the human reader.

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