Hedera
Where the money moves. Stablecoin payments settled in seconds, with fees paid for your agent.
Every purchase Pocket allows ends as a real stablecoin transfer with a public receipt.
Why it suits agent payments
Fees are tiny and predictable. An agent buying data at a cent a call cannot absorb a variable fee market. A purchase that costs more to settle than the thing being bought is not a purchase.
It settles in seconds. The demo's full round trip, including the decision, lands in about two seconds. An agent waiting on a confirmation is an agent not doing its job.
Stablecoin is native. USDC exists as a first-class token, so there is no contract to special-case.
Your agent needs no gas
A facilitator pays the network fee. Your agent's wallet holds only the stablecoin it spends, and never needs topping up with a second token.
That removes a whole class of failure: an agent stuck mid-task because nobody noticed a gas balance ran out.
builds the transfer
The decision has already passed at this point.
PocketPrivy
asks for a signature
PocketSeller
presents the signed payment
SellerFacilitator
asks it to verify and settle
Facilitator
co-signs and pays the fee
FacilitatorHedera
submits the transfer
SellerPocket
returns the data and the receipt
Pocket signs but never broadcasts; the facilitator pays the fee and submits
Pocket never broadcasts anything. It produces a partly signed transaction that the facilitator has to co-sign, so a compromised Pocket still cannot move money on its own.
Wallets opt into tokens
Hedera asks an account to opt into a token before it can hold it. Pocket does this when it creates the wallet, not at the first payment, so a funded wallet is never in a state where money sent to it would bounce.
You do not have to do anything. It is worth knowing only because it explains why wallet creation takes a moment longer than you might expect.
A receipt
PAID 0.01 USDC
tx 0.0.7162784@1788896248.263006462
explorer hashscan.io/testnet/transaction/0.0.7162784@1788896248...The transaction begins with the facilitator's account, because the facilitator is the payer of record for the fee.