Reading your allowance from Solana…
Give your agent pocket money,
not your card.
Kobo is an allowance on Solana. Your AI agent pays for every API call it makes, over the x402 protocol, straight from a vault you fund. The limits are enforced on chain, so even a confused or tricked agent cannot spend past them. You can pause it at any moment.
- 402A paid API answers "Payment required" with a price.
- SignThe agent signs a Kobo payment for exactly that price. It holds no funds and no SOL.
- SettleThe program checks your caps, pays the merchant in under a second, and the data comes back.
1
Get test dollars
$5 of devnet test USD into your browser wallet. No sign-up and no SOL needed: Kobo's facilitator pays every network fee.
2
Set the allowance
Merchants it may pay (budget each)
Agent
Ask for something that needs live data. Each tool the agent uses is a separate paid API, bought per call.