Corbits

Corbits is a developer platform built for the emerging era of agentic commerce, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay for APIs and digital tools without manual account setup or API key management. Founded in mid-2025 by Alex Kehaya and developed under the ABK Labs banner, Corbits positions itself at the intersection of AI agent infrastructure and Solana's growing payments ecosystem, with the tagline: "Ready your apps for Agentic Commerce."

The Problem Corbits Solves

The rise of autonomous AI agents has introduced a new friction point in software infrastructure: agents need to transact with external services at machine speed, but most API access models are designed for humans — requiring account creation, credential management, and manual billing. Corbits addresses this by building around the HTTP 402 Payment Required protocol, known as x402, which allows agents to pay for API access on a per-request basis, settling in stablecoins on-chain, with no prior registration required.

As the Corbits team describes it: agents should be able to "discover and pay for APIs and tools with no account setup" — just pay and go.

Faremeter: The Core Payment Framework

Corbits' flagship open-source product is Faremeter, a modular framework that handles tool discovery, payment metering, and instant settlement for agent-driven transactions. Faremeter is purpose-built for x402 but is intentionally protocol-agnostic in its architecture, supporting a growing range of payment standards including Coinbase x402 (v1 and v2, with automatic version negotiation), the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) with the charge intent currently shipping on Solana, L402 (the Lightning Network-native payment protocol), Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl, and Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) with support in development.

The framework uses a plugin architecture that lets developers attach new payment strategies outside the core codebase, making it extensible without requiring upstream changes. Integration pathways include wrappers, middleware, and proxies, meaning existing APIs can adopt x402 monetization without extensive rewrites.

Faremeter ships with a full suite of components: a client library with pluggable fetch functionality, middleware with both remote and in-process payment handlers, OpenAPI-driven pricing middleware, a payment facilitator and service proxy, an Nginx gateway, and wallet integrations spanning Solana, EVM chains, Ledger hardware wallets, Squads multisigs, Crossmint, and OWS (Open Wallet Standard). The GitHub repository for Faremeter is maintained under the faremeter organization, sponsored by ABK Labs, and has attracted meaningful traction in the developer community building agent payment infrastructure.

Solana as the Settlement Layer

While Corbits and Faremeter support multiple blockchains — including Base, Polygon, Monad, and Skale via EIP-3009 gasless USDC — Solana has become the primary settlement layer for x402 transactions at large. Independent analysis suggests Solana accounts for 50 to 80 percent of all x402 transaction volume, driven by its sub-second finality at around 400 milliseconds, ultra-low fees of approximately $0.00025 per transaction, and high throughput.

For Solana specifically, Faremeter supports flex payments, exact payments, and MPP charge intent schemes. Wallet integrations include native Solana wallet connectivity alongside Squads multisigs for teams requiring shared custody over payment infrastructure.

Corbits is listed as a launch partner for the broader x402 ecosystem alongside names including PayAI, Crossmint, Merit Systems, MoonPay, Sponge Wallet, and Tektonic — a cohort that signals meaningful coordination within the agentic payments movement building on top of Solana.

Agent Governance and Observability

Beyond payments, Corbits offers a layer of operational governance for organizations deploying AI agents at scale. The platform emphasizes structured control mechanisms that address enterprise concerns around security, compliance, and auditability.

On the access control side, agents are granted exactly the capabilities they need and nothing more, with access configured as fail-closed by default. This scoped grants model is combined with credential separation — secrets are managed by the platform at launch rather than by agents themselves — which limits operational blast radius in the event of a compromised or misbehaving agent.

For compliance and oversight, every agent action, tool call, and inference is recorded in tamper-evident, cryptographically signed logs, providing verifiable proof for security reviews, regulatory audits, and internal governance workflows. Real-time reporting with export capabilities is designed for use in SEC and NFA compliance scenarios.

The platform also supports hierarchical policy control, allowing agents to be organized across teams and workspaces with inheritance rules that prevent authority escalation. This enables enterprises to maintain control as agent deployments scale from a handful to thousands of active agents. The system is not locked to a single AI provider: agents on Corbits can run on Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, giving teams the freedom to optimize for cost, capability, or compliance requirements without vendor lock-in.

Developer Tools

Corbits ships two primary developer-facing products alongside the Faremeter framework.

Intercode is a CLI-based coding agent with built-in guardrails and audit logging. It serves as the reference application demonstrating how Corbits' governance model applies in a real engineering workflow — a tool that writes code while maintaining a full cryptographic record of its actions, bridging the gap between AI-assisted development and the audit requirements of regulated teams.

Workbench is a workspace environment for agents performing go-to-market work, with governance defaults and human review checkpoints built in. It targets use cases like converting sales materials into publishable content at AI speed while maintaining editorial control, with role-based dashboards allowing team-specific views into agent activity.

Ecosystem Integrations

Corbits has been active in building third-party integrations that demonstrate x402's potential for agent-driven data access on Solana. A notable integration with Nansen embedded the analytics provider's API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) layer behind an x402 gateway, allowing AI agents to query labeled on-chain data — including Solana meme token analytics — without distributing API keys. The result is frictionless data access with faster prototyping timelines, as agents can query Nansen's infrastructure without managing credentials directly.

Corbits also partnered with AI project Dark to release Mallory, an open-source mobile toolkit that combines AI chat with real-world functionality powered by x402. Built on React Native, Mallory represents one of the first consumer-facing applications embedding machine payments into a conversational AI interface, allowing end users to interact with x402-gated services through a chat-native experience.

Team and Background

Corbits was founded by Alex Kehaya, who leads ABK Labs. The team brings together open-source contributors — including individuals with backgrounds linked to projects like GNU Bash and the Free Software Foundation — alongside engineers with experience at Coinbase and within the broader Solana ecosystem. Kehaya has spoken publicly about the project's vision on the Solana Media podcast "Open Intelligence with Rishin Sharma" in January 2026, framing agentic payments as a fundamental infrastructure shift comparable to the introduction of online card payments for the web.

ABK Labs sponsors the open-source Faremeter project, reflecting the team's commitment to building shared infrastructure for the x402 ecosystem rather than a closed proprietary stack. This open-source orientation has helped Corbits gain recognition in curated x402 resource lists and developer communities organizing around the machine payments standard.

Tokens and Audits

Corbits has not launched a native cryptocurrency token. The project emphasizes open-code practices and enterprise-grade security, with the Faremeter codebase publicly auditable on GitHub. No formal third-party smart contract audit has been publicly disclosed, though the platform's payment flows rely on standard stablecoin transfers (USDC) across established chains rather than custom on-chain programs that would require independent security review.

Broader Significance

Corbits sits at the convergence of two accelerating trends: autonomous AI agents becoming active economic participants, and Solana's push to become the payments layer for the internet. The x402 protocol gives this infrastructure a concrete open standard, and Corbits — through Faremeter — has positioned itself as one of the most comprehensive open-source implementations of that standard. For developers building agent-native applications that need to buy or sell API access at machine speed, Corbits offers a production-ready toolkit designed to make machine-to-machine commerce as frictionless as an HTTP request.