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      "title": "Agent payment protocols compared",
      "summary": "x402, MPP, L402, ACP, AP2 and UCP compared on what each standardizes, payment rails, wire format, governance, spec status and SDKs, so you can tell machine-payment protocols from agent-checkout protocols.",
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        "stablecoins"
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        "model-context-protocol",
        "cursor",
        "amp",
        "kiro",
        "qwen-code",
        "openhands"
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        "research"
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