$0.000001 USDC payments only work because Circle Gateway turns thousands of EIP-3009 authorizations into batched settlement; that is closer to a Visa/Cloudflare-style clearing layer than a normal L1 transfer market. x402 already moving $100M+ and Circle doing $21.5T of USDC volume in Q1 puts the prize around per-call pricing for inference, data feeds, RPC, and agent memory, not another coffee-payments rerun. Fee compression pushes rent to facilitators, risk engines, and unified liquidity routers, so the stack that owns verification and routing may capture more than the API sellers.

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