# API Payments and Agents: Use Cases for Machine-to-Machine Transactions
Autonomous software agents are increasingly performing economic actions that once required human involvement. Machine-to-machine (M2M) payments expand as agents subscribe to APIs, purchase real-time data, or trigger microtransactions on behalf of users, organizations, or themselves. Cryptocurrency infrastructure makes these transactions borderless, programmable, and highly scalable.
## Key Use Cases
- **Data APIs:** Agents purchase or lease access to real-time info (market data, weather, web feeds)
- **Compute Power:** Agents pay for cloud or edge compute cycles
- **AI Inference:** Pay-per-query or model operation for advanced AI capabilities
- **Cross-Service Negotiation:** Agents coordinate workflow with other services/agents - compensating one another on completion
## Tsuka’s Lens
By exploring programmable, open money like Tsuka, communities and developers position themselves to understand, experiment with, and potentially build for this coming agent economy - always with an eye on transparency and verifiability.
## About Tsuka
Tsuka educates around digital sovereignty, agent-driven commerce, and verification for open, permissionless infrastructure in the future of programmable value. Own Your Digital Life.
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