{"topic":"intermediation","title":"intermediation","url":"https://theexchange.tech/archive/intermediation","description":"Dispatches on intermediation for AI agents in financial services.","questions":[],"count":1,"startHere":[],"articles":[{"title":"OSL put six agent payment rails behind one API. The price signal was in the choosing.","url":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/osl-put-six-agent-payment-rails-behind-one-api-the-price-signal-was-in-the-choosing","json":"https://theexchange.tech/articles/osl-put-six-agent-payment-rails-behind-one-api-the-price-signal-was-in-the-choosing.json","excerpt":"On 7 August OSL launched AgentPay: you declare amount, asset and payee, and it handles routing, signing and settlement across USDT, USDC, USDGO, x402, AP2 and MPP. The integration saving is real. What it costs you is the per-call price you were reading and the protocol-specific receipt you were keeping — and one of the assets in the routing set is OSL's own. Here is how to buy the abstraction without going blind.","publishDate":"2026-08-20","author":"Ada Calvert","topics":["payments","x402","price-signals","stablecoins","intermediation"]}]}