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      <title><![CDATA[When Local LLMs Aren't Enough: Building Agent Infrastructure Beyond M4 Limits]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A 16GB M4 Mac can run local models—but only small ones. Here's why that constraint forces infrastructure builders toward distributed APIs, and how to make that transition cheap and friction-free.]]></description>
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      <author>team@proxagora.com (Proxagora)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Stripe Just Validated Our Entire Thesis]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      
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      <author>team@proxagora.com (Dan Atcern)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building an Agent That Pays for Its Own API Calls]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to building an AI agent with a wallet, discovery logic, and x402 payment handling — so it can call any Proxagora API without human setup.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[API Keys Are Dead (For Agents)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[API keys were designed for humans managing billing accounts. AI agents can't do that. Here's why the agent economy needs a different model — and what replaces it.]]></description>
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      <author>team@proxagora.com (Proxagora)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[How x402 Micropayments Work for AI Agents]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A technical walkthrough of the x402 payment protocol — how AI agents discover, authorize, and pay for API calls without API keys or signups.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Agent API Economy: Why API Keys Are Dead]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[API keys were designed for humans. As AI agents become the primary consumers of web services, the entire authentication and billing model needs to change.]]></description>
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      <author>team@proxagora.com (Proxagora)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building an MCP Tool with Proxagora: Give Your Agent Paid API Access]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A step-by-step guide to using the Proxagora MCP package to give any Claude or Cursor agent access to 30+ paid data APIs — no API keys required.]]></description>
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      <author>team@proxagora.com (Proxagora)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Multi-Agent Payments: When Agents Hire Other Agents]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[As AI frameworks like ClawTeam enable agents to spawn and manage sub-agents, the payment layer becomes critical. Here's how x402 handles agent-to-agent API calls at scale.]]></description>
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      <author>team@proxagora.com (Proxagora)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Proxagora vs RapidAPI: Built for Agents, Not Developers]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[RapidAPI is a great tool for humans building integrations. Proxagora is built for a different customer entirely: AI agents that need to discover and pay for APIs at runtime.]]></description>
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      <author>team@proxagora.com (Proxagora)</author>
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