{
  "id": 6449,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02023v1",
  "title": "APEX: Agent Payment Execution with Policy for Autonomous Agent API Access",
  "summary": "Autonomous agents are moving beyond simple retrieval tasks to become economic actors that invoke APIs, sequence workflows, and make real-time decisions. As this shift accelerates, API providers need request-level monetization with programmatic spend governance. The HTTP 402 protocol addresses this by treating payment as a first-class protocol event, but most implementations rely on cryptocurrency rails. In many deployment contexts, especially countries with strong real-time fiat systems like UPI",
  "authors": "Mohd Safwan Uddin, Mohammed Mouzam, Mohammed Imran, Syed Badar Uddin Faizan",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-02T13:32:01.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:28.612Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/6449",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02023v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}