Brian Mwai@brian645

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AI labs are extracting billions of dollars of content from publishers with no workable payment recourse. The New York Times has been suing OpenAI since December 2023. Thomson Reuters won the first major fair-use ruling against Ross Intelligence in February 2025. Reddit is suing Anthropic. Getty is suing Stability AI. Cumulative damages claimed across AI training lawsuits exceed $100 billion. The other option is licensing — News Corp got $250 million over five years from OpenAI, Reddit got $60 million a year from Google. Those deals exist for the top 0.01% of publishers. Everyone else just bleeds. The payment rail to fix this already exists. HTTP 402 has been reserved in the spec since 1999. Coinbase and the Linux Foundation shipped the x402 standard in 2024. Circle shipped Arc with USDC-native gas, finally making sub-cent settlement profitable. What's missing is the publisher-facing product. Tollgate is that product. A drop-in middleware library for Express, Hono, and Next.js. A publisher dashboard at tollgate.brianmwai.com that provisions a Circle Wallet, configures pricing rules, watches realtime onchain settlements, rotates API keys, and off-ramps USDC via Circle CCTP. Every quote is priced by Google Gemini 3 Flash through Function Calling over three callable tools — agent reputation, site pricing rules, recent activity — with the reasoning persisted per request. A 5-minute HMAC receipt cache collapses 50 repeat reads into 1 onchain transaction. Proof: 240+ real onchain USDC settlements on Base Sepolia, all verifiable on basescan. A live demo publisher at demo-news.brianmwai.com with ten editorial articles behind real 402 responses. A bot CLI that signs payments and produces real settlements on demand. MIT licensed. Production ready. No waitlist.

The Problem Freelancers and small businesses lose billions annually to unpaid invoices. Chasing payments is awkward, time-consuming, and often unsuccessful. The Solution Oryn is an autonomous AI agent that handles the entire debt collection process without manual intervention. How It Works 1. Upload an invoice or contract. Oryn's AI extracts client details, amounts, and due dates automatically. 2. Activate the claim. The agent sends friendly reminders via email, SMS, or WhatsApp. 3. Smart escalation. If clients don't respond, Oryn automatically adjusts tone from friendly to firm to final notice. 4. Payment on Arc. Each claim generates a USDC payment link on Circle's Arc blockchain. Sub-second finality, fees paid in USDC, no gas token complexity. 5. Real-time dashboard. Track total collected, active claims, and payment history in one place. Why Arc? Circle's new L1 blockchain enables instant, low-cost USDC transfers, making micropayments viable and cross-border collections seamless. No waiting days for bank transfers. True Agentic Commerce The AI maintains context across days and weeks, remembering every interaction and adjusting its approach based on client responses. It works autonomously toward a goal. Watch the Demo Visit oryn.cc and click "Watch Demo" or view here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG_SFV8WHw/ORTSg3XoP7hvQOHo2AeYSA/watch

Paystream AI is an intelligent blockchain payroll platform built by Brian Mwai & Joy Lang'at in Kenya. We solve cross-border payment delays & high transaction fees. The Problem: International wire transfers take 7-14 days & cost $30-50 per transaction. Traditional payroll platforms still rely on slow, expensive banking rails. Our Solution: Our platform combines Google Gemini 2.0, Arc Network, Circle USDC, Qdrant vector search, Groq inference, ElevenLabs voice AI, & Opus workflows to deliver instant global payments through our AI assistant, Penny. Penny understands natural language, searches employees semantically, & executes instant USDC transfers on-chain. Instead of waiting weeks for international wires & paying $30+ fees, companies can now pay their global teams daily with zero delays. We've integrated 7 AI/ML APIs to create a payroll experience that transforms monthly administrative burdens into seamless daily operations. From Nairobi to Dubai, talent knows no borders—neither should payment. Team: Brian Mwai: Research Lead & Software Engineer, Co-Founder at Hausor Labs Joy Lang'at: Tech Lead AI/ML Engineer, Co-Founder at Hausor Labs Paystream AI: Moving humanity forward, one instant payment at a time.

📅 May 11–19, 2026 • May 11 – 19: Online Build Phase. • May 18 (Hybrid Build Day – Online & Onsite) • May 19 (Demos & Awards – Online & Onsite) 🌍 Hybrid event. Join online from anywhere or build onsite at the venue. 🏆 Winners will be announced live on stage at the AI & Big Data Expo North America on May 19 📍 On-site Venue (May 18–19): San Jose McEnery Convention Center, CA, USA 🤝 Join solo or with a team. 🎟 FREE AI & Big Data Expo North America ticket included for participants that are able to join the on-site phase. 🏆Compete for a $10,000 prize pool 🧑‍💻 Apply now to design, prototype, and showcase enterprise-ready innovation.

Grab your ideas, spin up compute, and start building what’s next! Start with $100 in AMD Developer Cloud credits and begin building right away. Get access to hands-on tutorials, workshops, and curated learning resources to help you build faster and go further. To unlock credits and join the hackathon, sign up for the AMD AI Developer Program. 🤝 Go solo or team up — ship something real. 💰 $21,500+ total prize pool & 1 × AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9700 GPU up for grabs. 📍 On-site Venue (May 9-10): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 📍On-site participation is by invitation only. Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered. 🧑‍💻 Developers, builders, and innovators - bring your boldest ideas and let’s turn them into real AI systems on AMD.

In this hybrid hackathon powered by Arc and Circle, developers will build the next generation of Agentic economic applications using Circle’s Nanopayments infrastructure with settlement on Arc in USDC. For the first time, high-frequency, usage-based transactions between users, APIs, and AI agents can operate without gas overhead eroding margin. Arc provides stablecoin-native settlement with predictable, dollar-denominated USDC fees and deterministic, sub-second finality — enabling real-time coordination and economically viable per-action pricing at scale. 📅 April 20 – 26, 2026 • Apr 20 – 25 (Online): Submit projects by Apr 25. • Apr 25 (On-site Build – SF, CA): Teams refine projects. • Apr 26 (On-site Demos & Awards – SF, CA): Live pitches & winners announced. Get guidance from Arc and Circle experts through on-site support. 📍 On-site Venue (April 25-26): MindsDB SF AI Collective 3154 17th St, San Francisco, California, USA 🤝 Go solo or team up, it's your flow. 🏆 Compete for a $15,000+ Prize Pool. 📍 Please note: If approved for the on-site experience, you’ll also have the opportunity to showcase your project live. Travel and accommodation will not be covered. 🧑🏻‍💻 Secure your spot now – sign up before the Kick-Off Stream!

⏱️ Design, build, and deploy trustless AI trading agents. 📅 March 30 – April 12, 2026 🌐 Build AI trading agents that execute strategies using ERC-8004 or Kraken CLI. 🤝 Build solo or in teams to create autonomous trading, risk, yield, or protection agents. 💰 $55,000 prize pool, allocated and shared via Surge and Kraken. Your team should have registered project at early.surge.xyz in order to be eligible for the prize. Get access in your team profile or our discord 🔑 Access to early.surge.xyz If prompted for login credentials, use: • Username: admin • Password: JBRv2xWG7AzwVrLz88