Merit Systems Blog

@agentcash/router is the library we've used to build every paid endpoint at Merit Systems. Today, it's open source.

The first issue of Merit's monthly read on agentic commerce. July 2026: 13.5 million x402 payments, MPP's fast ramp, and the Open USD consortium taking stablecoins mainstream.

Honcho's reasoning-powered memory layer is now accessible to any AI agent through AgentCash.

Minerva's 250M+ consumer profiles are now accessible to any AI agent through AgentCash.

Checkout in ChatGPT is an incremental improvement. Open Agentic Commerce will reshape society as the internet did in the early 2000s.

Our thesis is that the best agents will surprise and delight us. They will emerge, instead of being hand-wired from scratch.

As AI becomes a utility, the platform era gives way to a long tail of small, opinionated apps that do one job perfectly and monetize per use.

A new financial stack for open-source software. Attract and pay open source contributors with the Terminal.

Announcing our $10M seed round led by a16z and Blockchain Capital to build the future of open source economics.

A new economic engine for innovation: our manifesto for the future of open source.