Why GraphTally reads like x402, a year early: sub-cent, high-frequency, trust-minimized.
Instead of transferring tokens per query, gateways attach a signed Receipt to each request, an IOU processed offchain in microseconds with no gas fees. Indexers aggregate those Receipts into
Everyone is talking about x402 and machine-native payments. The Graph Network has run the same pattern in production since early 2025: GraphTally.
Pay-per-query, no accounts, signed offchain, trust-minimized. And Subgraphs now accept x402 directly.
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