--- title: WAVE: Video infrastructure for the agentic internet. description: WAVE is video infrastructure for the agentic internet: one API for live and on-demand video, agent-payable over x402 and MPP. canonical: https://wave.online/ last-updated: 2026-08-29 --- # WAVE: Video infrastructure for the agentic internet. > One API for live and on-demand video, built for the people who make it and the agents that pay for it. WAVE is an open protocol and one API for live and on-demand video, with HTTP-402 payments, did:wave-* identity, and a public x402 + MPP facilitator built in. Autonomous agents and people use the same surface; payment, identity, and metering are native. - [Read the docs](https://docs.wave.online) - [Get an API key](https://dev.wave.online) ## How WAVE works 01 **Integrate once**. One API and one key. Ingest and deliver across streaming transports from a single contract, people through the SDK, agents through the same OpenAPI surface. 02 **The gateway enforces**. Every call routes through one edge gateway: authentication, scope, entitlement, and metering. Agents settle for access natively over HTTP-402 (x402), no human in the loop. 03 **Deliver at the edge**. Live and on-demand video is served from the edge, close to viewers, with attribution and audit records carried end to end. ## What WAVE gives you - **One API, every protocol**: Ingest and deliver across the streaming protocols from a single contract, you integrate once, WAVE handles the transports. - **Agent-native payments**: x402 over HTTP, WWW-Authenticate: Payment, Authorization: Payment, Payment-Receipt, with server-side replay protection and OFAC screening. See agents.wave.online for the protocol surface. - **Gateway-enforced trust**: Authentication, scope, entitlement, and metering are enforced at one edge gateway, every product and agent goes through the same enforcement plane. - **Compliance built in**: EU AI Act Article 26 record-keeping, GDPR/CCPA alignment, HIPAA-ready under BAA, and immutable audit records with multi-year retention. ## Who it's for - **For builders**: Ship video without standing up transport infrastructure. One key, one API, predictable edge delivery. - **For agents**: A machine-readable surface, OpenAPI, x402 payment negotiation, and skill descriptors, so autonomous systems can transact for media directly. - **For the enterprise**: A documented compliance posture (EU AI Act, GDPR/CCPA, HIPAA-via-BAA) and a signed DPA, with auditability by design. ## Compliance - EU AI Act Article 26 record-keeping - GDPR & CCPA aligned ยท DPA available - HIPAA-ready under a signed BAA - A2P 10DLC compliant messaging ## The agent surfaces - Discovery index: https://wave.online/llms.txt - OpenAPI (the gateway's authoritative spec): https://wave.online/openapi.json - Pricing (machine-readable): https://wave.online/pricing.md - Auth walkthrough: https://wave.online/auth.md - MCP server (62 tools): https://api.wave.online/mcp - Agent-payable terms: https://wave.online/.well-known/x402