Powered By Base: Exa (Forward Deployed Engineer, Jakub Hojsan)

In this episode of Powered by Base, Jakub Hojsan, Forward Deployed Engineer at Exa, joins us to break down how AI agents can pay for search per request with no account and no API key, how those payments settle in USDC on Base through x402, and why Exa chose Base and Coinbase Developer Platform rather than building payment settlement itself. Powered by Base is a series featuring the businesses and institutions shaping the future of finance. Read the full story: https://www.base.org/customers/exa Follow Base: https://x.com/base Follow Exa: https://x.com/ExaAILabs