Agents
Archer prices each signal and Scout decides per call whether it is worth buying, settling sub-cent over x402. This is the autonomous demo of the rail.
Per-second payments on Arc
Stream money by the second.
Quiver is a pay-per-second settlement rail built on x402 and Circle Gateway. It bills for exactly the seconds consumed and stops the instant you do, composed from per-tick authorizations that Gateway batches onchain.
One rail, two surfaces
Agent demo today. Creator rail next.
The primitive is the product: a second-by-second payment loop that can meter software calls or chat-active presence without a native rate primitive on Arc.
Creators
The same per-second core drives an Owncast sidecar: chat presence opens an x402 stream, USER_PARTED or a connected-client heartbeat closes it. Verified end-to-end against a local Owncast instance — one real settled tick.
How it works
Three steps from seconds to settlement
Quiver turns elapsed usage into discrete x402 payments. Archer and Scout make that visible with agent decisions today; the same loop is designed for chat-active creator presence next.
Price the second
Each billable moment becomes an x402 price: one signal, one stream tick, or one future viewer-second behind a creator server.
HTTP 402 + dynamic PAYMENT-REQUIRED header
Authorize the tick
The buyer signs a fresh EIP-3009 authorization for the current tick. Stop the stream, and no new authorization is signed.
One session wallet + one per-tick authorization
Gateway settles
Circle Gateway verifies each accepted authorization quickly and batches settlement on Arc testnet while Quiver reconciles against verified rows.
x402 -> TransferWithAuthorization -> batched USDC
Headline feature
Pay-per-second streaming over x402
You pay for the seconds you watch. There is no native “approve a rate” primitive on Arc, so Quiver composes streaming from discrete per-tick EIP-3009 authorizations that Circle Gateway verifies quickly and settles in batches.
- Scout signs a fresh authorization every second from one ephemeral wallet per session.
- Tap stop, and signing halts the same instant. No signature means no next-second payment.
- ticks × rate = total — the dashboard reconciles to verified stream rows, never a cached guess.
Surface authorized / verified volume, not settled — verification feels live while batch settlement can lag.
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Try Quiver
Buy one Archer signal — no wallet needed
This button triggers a demo-funded real x402 payment from Quiver's funder wallet. It settles on Arc like Scout — but counts as a demo buy, not a distinct paying visitor. Public demo spending is rate-limited.