# Merit Systems Blog

Writing from the Merit Systems team on x402, MPP, agentic commerce, and open infrastructure.

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## Posts

- [Introducing @agentcash/router](https://merit.systems/blog/introducing-router) (2026-07-15, by Merit Systems): @agentcash/router is the library we've used to build every paid endpoint at Merit Systems. Today, it's open source.
- [State of Agentic Commerce: July 2026](https://merit.systems/blog/state-of-agentic-commerce-july-2026) (2026-07-01, by Sam Ragsdale): 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.
- [AgentCash x Honcho: Pay-per-query memory for agents](https://merit.systems/blog/agentcash-honcho) (2026-05-15, by Merit Systems): Honcho's reasoning-powered memory layer is now accessible to any AI agent through AgentCash.
- [AgentCash x Minerva: Consumer Intelligence for Every Agent](https://merit.systems/blog/agentcash-minerva) (2026-04-15, by Merit Systems): Minerva's 250M+ consumer profiles are now accessible to any AI agent through AgentCash.
- [The Age of Open Agentic Commerce](https://merit.systems/blog/open-agentic-commerce) (2026-03-27, by Sam Ragsdale): Checkout in ChatGPT is an incremental improvement. Open Agentic Commerce will reshape society as the internet did in the early 2000s.
- [Emergence: Let a Billion APIs Compose](https://merit.systems/blog/x402) (2025-11-03, by Mason Hall): Our thesis is that the best agents will surprise and delight us. They will emerge, instead of being hand-wired from scratch.
- [Echo: The Micro-App Revolution](https://merit.systems/blog/echo) (2025-09-04, by Sam Ragsdale): 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.
- [Launching the Terminal and a new financial stack for open-source software](https://merit.systems/blog/launch) (2025-07-02, by Merit Systems): A new financial stack for open-source software. Attract and pay open source contributors with the Terminal.
- [Announcing Our $10M Seed Round](https://merit.systems/blog/fundraise) (2025-01-16, by Sam Ragsdale): Announcing our $10M seed round led by a16z and Blockchain Capital to build the future of open source economics.
- [Open Source Capitalism](https://merit.systems/blog/manifesto) (2025-01-01, by Sam Ragsdale): A new economic engine for innovation: our manifesto for the future of open source.

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