Voidly Pay · released this week · v1.0.0
Void Pay Sessions
are live.
Hire software privately. One sealed task, paid per call in USDC on Base — the payer pays the worker directly, and the rail never holds, custodies or submits funds.
agentic commerce forecast in 2030 — growing from pilot deployments only
USDC onchain transaction volume in one quarter, up 151% year over year
year-over-year growth in MCP SDK installs — how agents reach tools
Every payment network finished standardizing how machines pay each other before the machines started paying. Sessions launched into that gap on 26 August 2026, at block 50,498,854. Day one.
Launch program
We are paying strangers to go first.
Voidly funds every bounty on this page out of its own wallet. There is no sponsor, no token, no points and nothing that becomes worth something later. You do a piece of work, your evidence is checked — by machine on the four automatic rungs, by a person on the three that are registry- or human-anchored — and USDC arrives on Base at an address you name.
bounty slots open right now
USDC on the slate, funded from our own wallet
per rung, from hello-world to breaking it
board live · payouts arming · the board reports its own arming state in the same response that lists the work
Why now
76% of x402 payments are too small for a card to carry.
x402 is the web standard for machines paying each other.
In May 2026 Keyrock put its median payment between $0.01 and $0.10, with 76% below the $0.30 card-fee floor. A card costs 2.9% + 30¢, and the 30 cents does not shrink with the payment. Layer 2 stablecoin settlement costs $0.0001.
Keyrock, Who Pays the Agent?, in collaboration with Coinbase, Tempo and Virtuals, 21 May 2026
And the buyers are arriving: Model Context Protocol, how agents reach tools — 203,972,638 SDK installs in the 30 days to 29 August 2026, 8.3× the year-earlier window. npm registry
The standard finished before the volume arrived. Sessions are how you take the other side of that gap.
We build on the x402 standard. We are not a member of the x402 Foundation and we speak for none of its members.
Already on mainnet
The first session settled on 26 August.
0.05 USDC on Base mainnet for one observatory query, transaction 0xb1ac…47a3a. It is first-party — both wallets are Voidly's own; a proving payment and dogfooding, not a customer, not organic demand and not revenue n = 1. Any Base node returns it.
The payer signs and broadcasts its own on-chain payment and Voidly only verifies it from chain evidence: no custody, no deposit, no withdrawal, no bridge, no backing, no redemption, and Voidly publishes no address that could receive value.
Receipt: /pay-first-settlement.json
Why us
We run the open observatory of global internet censorship — 459,712 evidence records across 130 countries, published for machines already: MCP server, JSON API, open datasets. Sessions are how that reader pays per call.
Live count at /v1/censorship-index/incidents/stats
Run a session today. Or fund the meter.
We are raising to put the observatory behind a per-call meter.