Sapiom has acquired Fewsats. The team and its machine-native payment rails are joining us, and those rails move inside the execution layer, where an agent can pay for what it needs in the middle of a run.
The payment gap
Paying has been the one thing an agent could not do for itself. It can search, read, reason, and write, and then it reaches something that costs money and stops. A person opens the account, holds the card, approves the charge, and hands back a key. Every one of those is a human-shaped hole in a loop that was otherwise running on its own.
Inside the runtime
Fewsats built payment rails for software rather than for people. Putting them in the runtime rather than beside it changes what a single step can do: a step that needs a paid source buys it and keeps going.
The limits you set still hold, because the payment travels through the same rules and the same meter as every other call. It lands in the run’s ledger as one more line carrying a capability, a price, and a trace.
What changes
Nothing changes in how you write an agent. You still define typed steps and receive a receipt at the end of the run. What changes is how far a run can get without waiting on you.