BlockRun
x402 rails / Circle Gateway Nanopayments

Circle Gateway on BlockRun: many calls, one settlement

nano.blockrun.ai serves the full BlockRun catalog with Circle Gateway batched USDC nanopayments: per-call x402 pricing, settled in batches on the EVM chains Gateway supports.

How it works

Per-call payments are the right unit for an agent and the wrong unit for a chain. Circle Gateway lets many x402 payments collapse into one on-chain settlement, so the agent still pays per request and the chain sees a batch. BlockRun's nano gateway is that product: the same models and routes, settled through Gateway.

It runs on its own host with its own manifest listing every accepted chain as a CAIP-2 id. For a buyer the difference is invisible at call time; for anyone reading the chain it is the reason transaction counts fall while settled dollars do not.

Behind it is the BlockRun catalog: 78 chat models plus image, video, music and speech generation, search, market data and multi-chain RPC, priced per call. 6 open-weight models are free and need no wallet.

Setup

1. Base URL

https://nano.blockrun.ai/api/v1

2. Discover accepted chains

curl https://nano.blockrun.ai/.well-known/x402 | jq '.endpoints[0].networks'

Questions

Is pricing different on nano?
No — the catalog and per-call prices are the same; batching changes how settlement lands on-chain, not what a call costs.
Which chains?
The EVM chains Circle Gateway supports, listed in the nano manifest's networks array.