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   agent ─→ ─────────────────     ┌──────────┐
   0xa7f                           │   x402   │
   ════════════════ ╪══════════════│   TOLL   │
   road · base mainnet             │  ▓▓▓▓▓▓  │
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            pay the toll · run the call

The HTTP 402 layer for agents.

TOLL is the payment and discovery layer for AI agents operating on Base. Agents discover tools, get a 402 Payment Required response, settle in USDC on Base, and retry with a receipt. The whole loop completes in under two seconds.

TOLL implements the open x402 standard (Coinbase, Cloudflare, AWS, Stripe) and packages it for the agent economy: a curated registry of paid tools, a single gateway endpoint, and on-chain telemetry that follows the wallet.

TL;DR

Agents talk to tools. Tools want to get paid. TOLL is the booth.

Why this exists

Agent inference has shipped. Agent payments have not. Today, an agent that wants to call a paid API has to do one of three things, all bad:

Reuse a human's API key (lock-in, leakage, billing nightmares).
Negotiate a subscription it cannot legally agree to.
Skip the call entirely.

The x402 standard fixes this with one HTTP status code. TOLL adds the layer agents actually need: a place to discover tools, a wallet-aware gateway, and reputation that survives wallet rotations.

What ships now

The $TOLL token, deployed on Base via Clanker.
This site and the open architecture spec.
Telegram channel for early operators.

What ships next

Q3 2026 — Gateway alpha. First 25 MCP tools on the registry. Pay-per-call live on Base mainnet.
Q4 2026 — Staking, slashing, curator markets.
2027 — Multi-agent routing, chained 402s, open governance.

Designed for crypto-native tools

TOLL launches with a focus on tools that already make sense on Base: on-chain analytics, DEX quotes, MEV intel, wallet history, perp funding, oracle feeds. The buyers and the suppliers live in the same ecosystem.

What this is not

Not a custodial wallet. TOLL never holds user funds; the gateway is a routing and metering layer.
Not a competing standard. TOLL is built on x402, MCP, and USDC — not a fork of any.
Not a security. $TOLL is a utility token used for curation, staking, and access. See the Token doc and FAQ.

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