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Most video ay-pee-eyes assume a person is behind the

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request: someone signed up, added a card, and holds

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a key. WAVE keeps that path for people, and

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adds a second one for agents. An agent can

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call the same routes, get a price, pay per

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use, and continue — without an account and without

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a human in the loop. This post walks the

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request end to end. The two engines. WAVE is

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built around two jobs. - The Media Engine moves

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the video. One open A P I ingests and

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delivers across transports — R T M P, S

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R T, N D I, Dahn-tay, O M T,

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Mock, Web R T C, H L S. Every

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transport is a thin adapter over the same core.

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- The Money Engine gets everyone paid. It prices

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a call, settles the payment, and meters usage. For

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agents, settlement runs over x four-oh-two. A person reaches

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the Media Engine with a bearer key. An agent

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reaches the same Media Engine, but the Money Engine

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meets it first. x four-oh-two, in one paragraph. x

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four-oh-two is H T T P's put to work.

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An agent makes a request. If the route is

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metered and unpaid, WAVE answers with a small, machine-readable

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description of the price and how to pay. The

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agent pays, retries the request with proof of payment,

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and the call goes through. No checkout page, no

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stored card, no session. The payment is part of

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the protocol, not a side channel. WAVE's x four-oh-two

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facilitator is live on Base mainnet today. The path

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a request takes. 1. The agent discovers what it

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can pay for at on . 2. It calls

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a metered route — say, to start a delivery

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or pull a clip. 3. WAVE returns with the

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price and payment details. 4. The agent settles the

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amount on Base and retries with proof. 5. WAVE

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verifies, runs the call through the Media Engine, and

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meters the usage. to start, no account required. The

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agent pays only for what it uses. Who is

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calling: did wave. A payment is only useful if

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you know who paid. WAVE gives each agent an

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identity with — a decentralized identifier the agent presents

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alongside its payment. Requests are sanctions-screened. That keeps the

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open path open without making it anonymous in a

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way that breaks compliance. Why this matters. For a

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person, the value is familiar: one A P I,

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one key, every transport. For an agent, the value

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is new. An agent that can find a price,

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pay it, and act does not need a human

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to provision access first. That is the difference between

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an A P I a person operates and an

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A P I an agent can use on its

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own. People call WAVE with a key. Agents call

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the same routes and settle the bill themselves. Both

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reach the same Media Engine. Try it. - A

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P I and discovery: A P I dot wave

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dot online - Docs: docs dot wave dot online

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- For agents: agents dot wave dot online Several

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WAVE sub-products are in preview and labeled as such.

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The gateway, the docs, and the x four-oh-two facilitator

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are live.