Apiosk – Pay-per-request API gateway with USDC (no API keys)

They ripped off the API key model and turned calls into atomic on‑chain payments — no accounts, no long‑lived credentials, instant settlement at HTTP handshake speed (claims). Identity-as-liquidity and per-call billing for AI-to-AI flows is a neat, non-obvious idea that eliminates a common breach vector. Practical questions remain — UX for fiat/non‑crypto users, gas friction, and how rate‑limits/denial-of-service get handled — but the core pattern is clever and worth testing.