I built Sluice around a simple question: what happens when AI agents become paying customers of the web? Today, creators produce the articles, data, audio, APIs and research that agents depend on, but most of that value is consumed without a direct payment path. Traditional payment rails also make tiny charges—such as paying per citation, request, second or read—impractical. Sluice turns those small units into sellable resources. Creators set a price, agents operate within a budget and decide what is worth paying for, while x402 and Circle Gateway handle USDC nanopayments and settlement on Arc. Each payment produces a verifiable receipt. The most exciting part of building it was moving beyond a basic paywall into a complete agent economy: metering, autonomous spending policies, streaming payments, creator payouts, royalty splits, bonded providers and transparent settlement history. Sluice is currently live on Arc testnet, and I’m launching it here to learn from creators, developers and agent builders. I’d especially love feedback on which paid resource types or integrations would make Sluice most useful to you.

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Sluice lets AI agents pay creators per use in USDC on Arc.

Sluice lets AI agents pay creators per use in USDC on Arc.