The return of the computer
For three decades, infrastructure primitives got shorter—30-minute sessions to 10ms hops. Agents reversed the curve back to hour-long tasks.
For three decades, infrastructure primitives got shorter—30-minute sessions to 10ms hops. Agents reversed the curve back to hour-long tasks.
x402 requires Coinbase to verify and settle every payment. L402 requires no one. The protocol your agent uses decides who can shut it off.
Who's building the agent stack—and how open is it? Companies and protocols scored on openness and distribution across five infrastructure layers.
What if LLM uptime was a macroeconomic indicator? A status page for the economy, where the components are AI providers and the metric is GDP.
Who controls agent payments? A force simulation of the three-way gravitational fight between state regulators, card networks, and open protocols.