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Author: momo, ChainCatcher   The explosion of the x402 protocol has brought a long-overlooked problem to the forefront: automatic payments between AI agents require an underlying protocol that is more efficient and automated than human payment systems. By redefining HTTP 402 status codes, x402 does provide the basic syntax for machine-to-machine micropayments. However, the birth of the x402 protocol is only the starting point of AI Agent payment, not the end. It defines "when to pay" but does not answer more complex business logic such as "how to share the money fairly" and "how to verify that the service has been delivered". These underlying problems are precisely the real bottlenecks that hinder the AI agent economy from demonstration to large-scale application. In this context, there have been many experimental projects around the real implementation of AI Agent payments. One of the most noteworthy is the new actions of the Metis ecosystem in x402. This week, LazAI, a Web3-native AI protocol incubated by Metis, joined forces with ZKM, Metis, and GOAT Network to launch GMPayer (GOAT-Metis-Payer), a multi-currency payment system powered by x402. In short, GMPayer was launched to make the x402 protocol truly usable, allowing AI agents to make instant payments across chains and in multiple currencies without intermediaries, accounts, or human intervention. GMPayer has also launched a proof-of-concept token $BANG to allow users to experience this payment system. Community participation is also very high, with 500 million minting quotas on GOAT Network and Metis Andromeda chains, which were sold out within 7.5 hours, with nearly 2,000 addresses participating, generating more than 100,000 transfers. LazAI collaborates with multiple projects in the Metis ecosystem to launch GMPayer, how to implement AI Agent payment? What are its advantages? What does this mean for the Metis ecosystem? This article has been systematically sorted out. Why is LazAI laying out x402 a necessity? The Metis ecosystem has a very important strategic update this year, which is the launch of the AI strategy. Its positioning is no longer limited to Layer2 but an infrastructure for the integration of blockchain and AI. The specific bearer of this strategy relies on the trinity of the co-evolution of the Metis ecosystem: Andromeda serves as a solid settlement layer, ensuring the security and finality of assets and transactions; On top of this, Hyperion, as a high-performance computing layer, provides the necessary high-throughput and low-latency environment for AI applications. The top-level LazAI is an application layer that transforms the underlying infrastructure into a real experience, creating perceivable value and playability for users. In August, LazAI launched a testnet. The LazAI testnet stage is committed to solving core problems such as lack of quality verification and unfair revenue distribution in the AI field, and its DAT (Data Anched Token) standard is the core of solving this problem. With the explosion of the x402 protocol, LazAI has a greater use. LazAI uses DAT to define "what is valuable" and "who the value belongs to", but it needs a mechanism to implement "how value is exchanged". The x402 protocol's payment trigger standard protocol provides exactly the missing link. The combination of the two allows every API call to automate value evaluation, payment triggering, and revenue distribution. How does GMPayer create an AI Agent payment closed loop? LazAI has verified the feasibility of pay-per-view, cross-chain payments, and AI Agent economics by launching a specific x402 application product, GMPayer. According to GMPayer's official website, it builds a closed loop of payment for the AI Agent economy through the four core components of DAT, Facilitator, iDAO, and x402 settlement layer. First, GMPayer solves the question of how value is distributed fairly. Through LazAI's DAT (Data Pegged Token) standard, GMPayer can clearly record the assetization information, copyright source, and revenue distribution object of the data, solidifying "who contributed what" into an immutable on-chain record. When an AI service is called, the associated DAT triggers GMPayer's x402 settlement layer smart contract, which automatically performs pay-per-call and real-time splitting. This allows all value creators, such as data contributors and model developers, to receive rewards accurately and instantly, establishing a credible contribution return system at the protocol level. On the basis of achieving fair distribution, the trust and verification of payment has become the next gap that must be crossed. GMPayer introduces a decentralized and verifiable payment coordinator, Facilitator, which is not a traditional centralized black box, but a settlement agent built on technologies such as SPV, ZKP, and TEE. At the same time, to resolve possible disputes and service quality evaluations, the system also introduces an iDAO governance model based on the BFT consensus mechanism for decentralized arbitration and quality evaluation, providing a second layer of guarantee for network trust. To actually validate the payment process, GMPayer launched a proof-of-concept token $BANG. $BANG is issued simultaneously on Metis Andromeda and GOAT Network, with a total supply of 1 billion, 500 million on each chain, 250 million on each chain for token minting and 250 million for liquidity. Participants can receive 5,000 $BANG by donating specific tokens worth $1 (such as $xMETIS or $xGOATED) through the x402 payment interface. This process generates a verifiable proof and returns the corresponding amount of $BANG as confirmation. $BANG Currently, it is only used for technical proof-of-concept and has no other practical use, but 500 million quotas were minted within 7.5 hours, of which 250 million on the GOAT Network chain were minted in 2 hours. In addition, according to DexScreener data, on Metis Andromeda's NetSwap, BANG's current market capitalization has reached $370,000, and the liquidity of the BANG-METIS pool has also exceeded $155,000, which shows the community's expectations for the GMPayer AI Agent payment solution. Judging from the official website, GMPayer has planned a clear path from solving a single problem to building a complex economy. Currently, GMPayer is in its first phase, aiming to enable agents to independently pay for data and computing power through a multi-currency payment hub based on x402, creating real economic interaction between agents. Next, GMPayer needs to complete three important goals in stages. Make payments credible and controllable, allow users to securely grant micropayment permissions, and allow agents to maintain control and budget constraints while operating autonomously. Build an AI business network with DAT as an asset unit, make AI services a truly tradable asset, and promote them from a "tool" attribute to a sustainable profit system. The ultimate is a universal value exchange layer that allows any Web3 chain to seamlessly bring AI to its application layer, enabling seamless interaction of AI, data, and services across all chains. Through this path, LazAI and GMPayer are gradually transforming the vision of the AI Agent economy from a technical concept to a workable, trustworthy real-world solution. What are the core advantages of GMPayer? The strength of GMPayer is that it is not an isolated technical implementation, but deeply mobilizes and integrates the quality resources of the entire Metis ecosystem, forming a set of comprehensive advantages with significant differentiation that are difficult to replicate. The most intuitive advantage of this solution is its multi-chain and multi-currency payment flexibility. Through the synergy of Metis, GOAT, and ZKM, GMPayer has built a cross-chain payment architecture that goes beyond single-chain trials. Specifically, Metis serves as the core of execution and settlement, ensuring the economic viability of microtransactions with its low fees and fast finality. As the native Bitcoin settlement layer, GOAT enables ultra-low-cost cross-chain flow between stablecoins and Bitcoin between Metis and the Bitcoin network through its zkRollup infrastructure and EIP-3009 support. In addition to flexibility, the solution has a verifiable trust cornerstone, which is key to enabling permissionless transactions between unfamiliar AI agents. While traditional payment intermediaries require trust from participants, GMPayer fundamentally reshapes the trust model by leveraging ZKM's zero-knowledge proof technology. ZKM is able to verify the correctness of quotes, authorizations, and payment loads for each payment and generate verifiable proofs. Ultimately, all of these benefits can be realized by Metis' high-performance infrastructure capable of hosting high-frequency real-time payments. Hyperion provides the necessary throughput and low latency for high-frequency AI inference workloads and concurrent payment requests, like a payment "highway" that ensures unimpeded access. Andromeda, on the other hand, serves as the ultimate asset anchor and settlement layer, ensuring the security and immutability of all transaction activities. This layered design of "Hyperion processing efficiency, Andromeda ensures security" together provides a fast and stable runtime environment for AI Agent's payment economic activities. This synergy based on a mature ecosystem and multi-integration makes it not only a payment tool, but also a robust, credible, and dynamic AI Agent economic foundation. Behind the heavy position in AI: the value logic of METIS is reshaped In addition to the big move of accessing the x402 protocol, the Metis ecosystem has also recently passed an important governance proposal of "ecosystem unification and economic model evolution". After the proposal is passed, the Metis ecosystem plan has officially entered the stage of ecological linkage from the hierarchical construction stage, and its settlement layer Andromeda, high-performance computing layer Hyperion, AI application layer LazAI, zero-knowledge proof layer ZKM and Bitcoin L2 exploration layer GOAT will promote coordinated development as a unified whole. The launch of GMPayer can be said to be the debut of ecological collaboration. In addition, the Metis ecosystem has also undergone a token economic model upgrade, and METIS has been established as the native gas token of the LazAI network. This means that with the launch of applications such as GMPayer, every payment interaction, every data call, and model inference of the AI Agent will directly consume METIS. As a result, the activity of the ecosystem is transformed into real token demand, creating continuous value support for METIS. In general, METIS is no longer just a Layer2 gas token, it is becoming the core value bearer of the entire Metis ecosystem - all the value generated in layers such as Andromeda, Hyperion, and LazAI will eventually be continuously converged and precipitated on METIS through gas consumption, staking governance, and ecological construction. epilogue The x402 protocol opens up possibilities for the AI Agent economy, and the Metis ecosystem is transforming it into a viable business foundation through GMPayer. However, this leap still faces many challenges: key issues such as continuous optimization of system performance, industry adoption of technical standards, and cross-chain security need to be solved urgently. The breakthrough of these challenges will determine the actual process of the AI agent economy from proof-of-concept to large-scale application.