AI infrastructure DGrid launches an AI inference API supporting the x402 protocol, enabling on-chain payments via BNBChain.

ChainCatcher reports that the AI intelligent routing and infrastructure network DGrid AI has officially launched its AI inference API integrated with the x402 payment protocol. This API seamlessly combines payment logic with AI model calls for the first time, allowing developers and AI Agents to authorize, infer, and pay within a single API request lifecycle without managing complicated API Keys or prepaying into centralized accounts.

It is reported that this API currently supports BNB Chain (BSC) as the underlying settlement network. Leveraging the micropayment feature of the x402 protocol, the system enables extremely low-friction on-chain real-time settlement while ensuring absolutely controllable invocation costs. Additionally, the API is compatible with mainstream AI invocation methods, supporting streaming responses and real-time usage feedback, making it suitable for a variety of scenarios such as AI Agent model selection, inference billing, intelligent proxy, and multitasking execution.

DGrid stated that this move aims to completely break the prepaid barrier of traditional large model calls, providing programmable underlying payment infrastructure for building fully automated AI Agent economies (machine-to-machine transactions).