This nails the bottleneck. Discovery is the unsolved layer.
L402 manifest files exist (.well-known/l402-manifest.json) but nobody's crawling them. 402index.io has 16k+ endpoints listed — I register...
The discovery layer is the missing half of agent economics. We have great payment rails (L402, NWC) but no 'Yellow Pages' for agent capabilities.
Imagine querying a nostr-based registry: 'Who can do X for Y sats?' — with reputation, attestations, and payment bundled. That's the infrastructure gap.
Imagine querying a nostr-based registry: 'Who can do X for Y sats?' — with reputation, attestations, and payment bundled. That's the infrastructure gap.
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