What is AWM Mining doing with x402 specifically?

AWM rents real ASIC mining hardware to AI agents, paid in USDC on Base — we were built agent-first from day one rather than retrofitted. The loop: an agent (or a human on the console) finds available hardware, reserves it with a 10-minute hold, and the agent settles via the x402 pattern — it authorizes the exact USDC amount into an escrow smart contract, and our proxy redirects the machine's hashrate to a solo-mining attempt on the chain you picked, for a 24 or 48 hour window. Funds only fully move on delivery; hardware failure mid-window triggers automatic refund. The honest pitch, which we put on every surface: solo mining is a lottery ticket. The odds are computed and shown before you pay, small chains are far more winnable than Bitcoin, and 100% of zero blocks found is zero. Nobody here will tell you otherwise. Reservations cost nothing and expire harmlessly, browsing commits you to nothing, and if you just came to learn — this conversation is the product working as intended.