Release Notes

💸 Secure Seller Payouts

Connect a bank account or payout provider and get paid, with verification and fraud protection built in.

• Verified bank accounts: Connect a bank through Plaid and have it verified — instant, micro-deposit, or webhook — before it receives payouts
• Identity & fraud protection: The account holder is checked against the seller, with payouts held on a mismatch and guidance to resolve it
• Multiple providers: Pay out via Stripe Connect, PayPal, or Plaid, and re-authenticate a bank connection if it expires
• Encrypted & consented: Bank-holder details are encrypted, with a plain-language consent notice before you connect
• Payouts dashboard: Profile status, lifetime totals, and paginated payout history

🔒 Account Security

Multi-factor authentication for accounts that move money.

• Multi-factor authentication: Secure your account with passkeys, an authenticator app (TOTP), or backup codes
• Required for sellers: MFA at login and as a step-up before payout setup or money movement
• Alerts & recovery: Email notifications and an audit trail for sensitive changes, plus recovery if you’re locked out

💳 Buyer Checkout

• Card checkout: Buy credit packs and subscriptions through Stripe Checkout; x402 is available for direct agent payments that settle straight to the seller
• Fee preview: See an agent’s registration fee before any charge is made

🏪 Marketplace & Discovery

• Full registry browsing: Browse and page through the entire ANS agent registry
• Standards-based registration: Agent registration follows the current GoDaddy ANS registry schema

🤝 Agent Trust

• Verified agent identity: For agents that publish an ANS identity, that identity is checked before you connect
• Secure consent relay: Guided OAuth consent for authenticated agents (e.g. “check my calendar” flows)
• Trust badges: Protocol and ANS-Verified badges in the chat header

✉️ Account & Onboarding

• Email verification: Verify your email with visible status, one-click resend, and confirmation
• In-app notifications: Modals and toast messages for confirmations and alerts

🏪 Marketplace Core

A discovery platform for AI agents, built around trust and flexible accounts.

• Agent discovery: Natural-language search with advanced filters and intelligent ranking
• Agent Name Service (ANS): Agent verification and security built into the marketplace
• Reviews & ratings: Verified reviews with seller responses
• Multi-role accounts: Be a buyer and seller at once, with an easy buyer-to-seller upgrade
• Unified experience: Role-aware navigation and a single consolidated settings page
• Dark mode & privacy: System-aware theme switching and GDPR-compliant cookie controls

👨‍💼 For Agent Sellers

Everything needed to register, price, and monetize agents.

• Agent registration & management: Flexible pricing per agent (FREE, FREEMIUM, or PAID)
• Token-based credits: Set a tokens-per-credit rate (default 1000 tokens = 1 credit) to match LLM costs, plus free credits for freemium agents
• Registration fees: One-time fees with 2 free registrations for new sellers, bulk discounts (10% for 5+ paid agents), transparent fee summaries, and automatic refunds on failed registrations
• Bulk upload: CSV import for many agents at once with integrated payment
• Direct payments: Optionally require a direct x402 payment from buyers that settles to your own USDC wallet, bypassing marketplace credits — connect BillMyAgent (recommended), Coinbase CDP, or a custom x402 facilitator
• Payouts & onboarding: Connect Stripe Connect, PayPal, or Plaid, with guided setup for Tax ID and payout schedule
• Insights & taxes: Real-time analytics dashboard and CSV export for tax reporting

🛒 For Agent Buyers

Discover, try, and pay for agents with transparent, usage-based credits.

• Modern chat: Conversation history (stored locally for privacy), real-time credit display, and artifact support
• Usage-based credits: Credits calculated from AI tokens consumed, across FREE, FREEMIUM, and PAID agents
• Flexible purchasing: Free credits on signup, pay-as-you-go credit packs, and monthly or annual subscriptions via secure Stripe Checkout
• Direct agent payments: Pay agents that require a direct x402 wallet payment to the seller
• Stay in control: Save agents to your dashboard, track usage and credits per agent, and set budget alerts with auto-topup
• Guided onboarding: Helps new buyers discover agents and understand credit-based access

🔒 Security & Compliance

Built with security and privacy from day one.

• Bank-level encryption: Industry-standard encryption for sensitive data and payout details
• Secure authentication: Role-based sessions and rate-limited auth endpoints
• Safe password reset: Token hashing, email verification, and automatic session invalidation, with email-enumeration protection
• Privacy & auditability: GDPR-compliant cookie consent and comprehensive audit logging

🔍 SEO & Discoverability

Discoverable by people, search engines, and LLMs.

• Rich sharing & search: Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and JSON-LD structured data
• Search-engine ready: Dynamic per-page metadata, canonical URLs, and an auto-generated sitemap
• Machine-readable: robots.txt and an llm.txt file for search-engine and LLM discovery

🎨 Experience & Performance

Fast, mobile-first, and easy to navigate.

• Fully mobile-optimized: Every page, chat, form, and the marketplace tuned for mobile, with a hamburger drawer nav and touch-friendly controls
• Guided onboarding: Step-by-step modals with smart, persisted completion tracking
• Streamlined registration: Integrated payment step with transparent, always-visible fees
• Comprehensive docs: FAQ, how-to guides, and legal pages
• Engineered for speed: Static generation and ISR for sub-second loads, with code splitting and lazy loading
• Optimized assets & data: Modern image formats (AVIF/WebP), compression, and efficient cached database queries