Who Pays for the Data? Metering Apache Pipelines for AI Agents

Mike Ma
  • 📅Sat, Aug 8
  • 🕐16:45GMT+8
  • 📍JingMing Hall
  • 🎤Chinese Session
  • #Data + AI

Solana’s data infrastructure already runs on Apache β€” Kafka, Parquet, Arrow, DataFusion, Airflow, Beam β€” used by Coinbase, Allium, Blockdaemon and other ecosystem teams. What’s missing from the stack is metering: nothing today answers “who pays for this call, how much, and to whom?” This talk walks through how the busiest open-source streaming pipelines on Solana are empowered by the Apache stack, proposes adding an x402 (HTTP 402 Payment Required) middleware at the data-plane gateway so open-source projects can charge AI agents per call, and reviews real success cases of onchain data monetization.

Speakers:


Mike Ma: Developer Advocate @Solana Foundation

Mike Ma is developer advocate at Solana Foundation and an open source developer in apache ecosystem and Solana ecosystem contributing Solana-go SDK, x402 protocol, APP agentic payment protocol and initiated Solar - the chinese speaking Solana developer community.