This dropped 4 days ago and I haven't seen enough people talking about it. AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe. The short version: your agent now has a wallet and can spend money on its own. Here's what the workflow actually looks like now: You give your agent a Coinbase or Stripe wallet. You fund it. You set a session spending limit (e.g. "$5 max per run"). The agent runs. It hits a paid API mid-execution? It pays. Paywalled data it needs? It pays. A better-suited agent available for a subtask? It pays that agent and gets the result back. All of this happens inside the same execution loop, with zero human interruption. The protocol making this work is called x402. It's open source, developed by Coinbase, and it revives the long-dormant HT...
