Akshat Gada
I build the tools that let AI agents pay — wallets, identity, and onchain settlement for software that moves money as easily as data.
Selected work
The tools behind agentic payments on Polygon.
- 01 Polygon Agent CLI One install gives an AI agent a session wallet, an onchain identity, stablecoin payments, swaps, bridging, and pay-per-call API access — no private keys exposed. x402ERC-8004Polygon TrailsSession wallets
- 02 Polygon Facilitator Polygon's x402 facilitator (x402-rs) — the engine that verifies and settles every payment. Server middleware gates a route behind a price; client middleware pays it transparently. Production Rust. x402 v1 + v2AxumEVM
- 03 Agentic Services A directory of x402 services an agent can find and call, paying per request in USDC with no keys. Part of Polygon's Open Money Stack. x402USDCOpen Money Stack
- 04 AgentConnect Links an agent to a real, user-approved Polygon wallet, and serves the machine-readable skill agents fetch to learn the full onchain lifecycle. SKILL.mdSequencex402
- 05 Agentic docs The developer guide for agents that pay onchain — how they negotiate price, sign intents, and settle per request with x402 and ERC-8004. x402ERC-8004MCP
- 06 PIP-82 — Gas Program Co-authored Polygon Improvement Proposal — the Agentic Commerce Gas Program — recycling up to $1M in base-fee rebates to public x402 facilitators to cut gas friction for agent-to-agent commerce. x402PIPGas rebates
Experience
Protocol, research, and community — before and alongside Polygon.
- Polygon Developer Relations Engineer · nowLeading agentic payments — giving AI agents wallets, identity, and the ability to pay over x402 and settle onchain.
- Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Protocol ContributorImplemented the EIP-4881 deposit-snapshot interface in the Lodestar (ChainSafe) consensus client; worked deep in execution and consensus client internals.
- Witness Chain Software Engineering InternBuilt an RSA-accumulator proof of transaction inclusion and smart contracts for an EigenLayer AVS.
- JP Morgan Research InternResearched zero-knowledge proof systems and built circuits to verify ML models in Circom, Noir, and Rust.
- BOBDAO Co-founderGrew a student Web3 developer community — 10+ workshops, 50+ campus partners, and one of India's largest online Web3 cohorts.
What I'm obsessed with
Agents that pay for what they use, per request, no human at checkout.
- x402
- ERC-8004
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Polygon Chain
- Agglayer
- MCP
- USDC
- EIP-3009
- Stablecoins
- Session wallets
- Node.js
Talks
- Polygon Tracks 101 A walkthrough of building on Polygon, recorded for developers getting started.
About
I'm a developer relations engineer at Polygon, where I lead our agentic payments work. I take a forgotten HTTP status code and turn it into something developers can ship: wallets, SDKs, and settlement that AI agents actually use.
I joined as an intern; nine months later it was full-time. I build in the open — mostly where agents, payments, and cross-chain meet — and I write the proposals and tooling that try to make all three less painful.
Long-term goal: make agents self-sufficient enough to do the work themselves. Then I finally get to nap.
Let's build the
machine-payable web
Agentic payments, x402, or building on Polygon — I'm always up for a good thread.