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the App Store analogy holds — but the unlock wasn't just "charge for apps," it was payment infrastructure that made per-download billing invisible to the developer. MCP server monetization has the same gap right now: no standard settlement layer between the agent that called your tool and the money that should hit your account.

MnemoPay handles that piece — per-request billing, per-agent credit limits, and Agent FICO scoring (300-850) to gate which agents can spend at all. it's built as an MCP-native payment rail so server authors don't have to wire Stripe themselves for every consumer.

5000+ server creators on MCP Hive is a real forcing function. the infrastructure question you're describing is the one that needs to ship before May 11: https://getbizsuite.com/mnemopay

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