JubJub
Sub-pillar 4.1How agents pay for content

How AI agents pay for your content

Agents are buying content right now. They query catalogues, evaluate payloads, and settle payments without a human anywhere in the loop. If your content is on JubJub, they can already find yours, sample it, and pay for it.

You keep 97% · USDC direct to wallet · No payout hold.

Your content has always been one sale at a time. A person finds it, watches it, pays for it. That model still works. But a second model is running alongside it now, and most creators have no idea it exists.

AI agents are buying content. Autonomously. They query catalogues, evaluate payloads, and settle payments without a human anywhere in the loop. If your content is on JubJub, they can already find yours, sample it, and pay for it. If it is not, they cannot.

01The sequence

What actually happens when an agent buys your content.

No magic. Just a clean sequence that runs without you.

  • An agent connects via the MCP server

    It receives a machine-readable catalogue of available content and pricing. See how the MCP server works.

  • It requests a sample

    Transcript, reference frames, and structured metadata for the content it is interested in.

  • It evaluates the sample against its task

    Training, research, content alignment, something else entirely. The agent decides on what is actually in the content.

  • If the content fits, it pays

    Via x402 or MPP. USDC settles directly to your connected wallet. JubJub takes 3%. You keep 97%. No payout hold.

That is the whole flow. You set your price at publish time. Everything after that is infrastructure.

02The payload

What the agent gets back.

When an agent purchases media intelligence through JubJub, it receives a structured payload built for machine consumption, not human browsing.

Transcript

Every word, timestamped

The full transcript, searchable and aligned to the media.

Reference frames

Visual anchors

Temporal grounding across the media for alignment work.

Metadata

Structured breakdown

Subjects, categories, languages, interaction types, complete media breakdown.

This is not a file. It is not a link to your video. It is a purpose-built intelligence payload an agent can act on immediately, without any further processing on its end. That is what makes it worth buying.

You publish. Agents pay. Everything in between is infrastructure.
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03The protocols

The two protocols behind it.

Two open standards make machine payments possible. JubJub implements both.

Developed by Coinbase

x402

An HTTP payment protocol. An agent requests a resource, receives a 402 Payment Required response with pricing, pays, and retries.

  • The entire exchange happens at the HTTP layer
  • No wallets to connect, no approval flows
  • No human in the loop
Co-authored by Stripe + Tempo

MPP

Machine Payment Protocol. It complements x402 by adding sessions, spending authorisation, and multiple payment rails.

  • Stablecoins, cards via Stripe, Bitcoin via Lightning
  • Authorise a spending limit once
  • Many payments within one session

Together they cover every agent that comes looking. JubJub does not ask which protocol the buyer is running. It speaks both.

04Discovery

How agents find your content, and what it costs.

Agents do not browse. They do not scroll. They query.

When an agent connects to JubJub’s MCP server, it receives a structured catalogue: what you have published, what each item covers, and what each item costs. The agent reads that catalogue, pulls a sample payload on anything relevant, and makes a buying decision based on what is actually in the content, not what the title says.

You set the price. JubJub surfaces it. The rest happens without you.

05Not your problem

What you do not have to do.

You do not have to build a payment API. You do not have to manage agent wallets, negotiate licensing terms per buyer, or monitor which agents have accessed what. None of that is your problem.

You publish

JubJub handles the infrastructure. You publish. Agents pay. The payment rails, the catalogue, the enforcement, all of it sits underneath the work you were already doing.

Set your price once. Get paid automatically.

Connect your AI key so JubJub can generate the full media intelligence payload agents buy. After that, your content is discoverable and purchasable on its own.

Connect your AI key

USDC settles direct to your wallet. JubJub takes 3%.

FAQAgent payments, answered plainly

Questions, answered plainly.

Do I need to do anything to make my content available to agents?

Not much. Content published through JubJub is automatically available to agents via the MCP server, with pricing set at publish time. The one thing worth doing is connecting your AI key in settings so JubJub can generate the full media intelligence payload agents actually buy.

What currency do agents pay in?

USDC. Payments settle directly to your connected wallet. JubJub takes 3%.

What is x402?

An HTTP-native payment protocol developed by Coinbase. When an agent requests content, it receives a 402 response with pricing. It pays and retries. The whole exchange happens at the protocol layer, no human required.

What is MPP?

Machine Payment Protocol. An open standard co-authored by Stripe and Tempo. It complements x402 with sessions, spending authorisation, and support for multiple payment rails. Together they cover the full agent payment stack.

Can I see what agents are buying?

Agent transaction history and analytics are on the roadmap. Coming soon.

What if I don’t want my content available to agents?

There is a single toggle in your profile settings. Agent access is on by default because we want earning to be as frictionless as possible, but you are always in control.

What if an agent tries to access my content without paying?

The x402 protocol enforces payment at the HTTP layer. No payment, no payload. There is no access path that bypasses it.