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Answering the three x402 problems
Double-spend, metered billing and the refund round-trip, answered with a collateral-backed x402 scheme.
Mairon Mahzoun
CTO & Co-Founder
The 4Mica blog: x402, agentic payments, and settlement
How 4Mica works
A walkthrough of the x402 credit and clearing layer — how an agent gets credit, how requests clear off-chain, and how a cycle settles net on-chain.
Why agents need credit, not prefunding
Prefunding every counterparty does not survive contact with an agent that talks to hundreds of services. Credit is the primitive that does.