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🔥💸 An expired API key burned my budget for 6 weeks. That's when I moved my agents to x402.

@xynaptic7h agox4026/10

A developer moved their agents' paid API calls to x402 per-call USDC payments after an expired key silently burned budget for six weeks; outcome is qualitative with no figures given.

#AIAgents#Payments
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