CLIfeature
Sign in to the WAVE CLI from your browser
Run wave login to authenticate through a browser device flow, then use wave whoami and wave logout to check or end your session.
Changelog
Changelog
What's new across WAVE — at the platform, workstream, and product level. Shipping in the open.
Changelog entries
Jul 13, 2026
Jul 12, 2026
Meshfeature
Manage your device estate from the web
A live estate dashboard shows your Mesh devices at a glance, and a new web control surface lets you drive device settings from app.wave.online and console.wave.online.
Jul 10, 2026
Transcodefeature
On-demand video transcoding across common codecs
Send a source and get back a transcoded render delivered over a presigned link, handling the common codec set end to end.
Jul 8, 2026
Renderfeature
WAVE Live: programmatic live video sessions
Start and control live video sessions over an HTTP API, with docs, a CLI, and an MCP descriptor. Sessions are tenant-isolated with per-session keys and an audit log.
Agent Moneyfeature
Gasless stablecoin settlement for agent payments
Agents can settle in pathUSD using a permit-signed transfer, so a payment clears without the payer holding gas. Built on the x402 payment flow.
MoQsecurity
Authentication and tenant isolation on the MoQ relay
The live MoQ relay requires authenticated join tokens and isolates each organization's namespace, so only authorized participants can join a stream.
Jul 6, 2026
Renderfeature
Track long renders with live progress
Kick off a render and follow it asynchronously: poll for status or stream progress events over SSE, and get billed only when the render completes.
Jul 4, 2026
Platformfeature
OpenAI-compatible embeddings API
Call POST /v1/embeddings to generate text embeddings, with managed backends or your own key.
Platformdocs
Published Acceptable Use and DMCA policies
Our Acceptable Use Policy and DMCA takedown policy are now live as dedicated pages you can read and reference.
Jul 3, 2026
Desktopfeature
Capture from NDI, OMT, and Dante sources
The desktop encoder can now pull video and audio from NDI, OMT, and Dante devices on your network.
Jul 2, 2026
Visionfeature
WAVE Vision: automated visual QA for renders and UIs
Score renders and interfaces against a spec with a tiered vision pipeline, available as a metered API and through an SDK and MCP surface.
Jul 1, 2026
Connectfeature
Inbound phone calls and call recording
Receive and record inbound voice calls, with SMS opt-in consent captured at phone setup.
Earlier changes (49)
Jun 30, 2026
Realtimefeature
Publish and play live video in the browser
Publish from the browser over WHIP and play back low-latency streams over WHEP, no plugins required.
Jun 28, 2026
Appfeature
Composite multiple live sources in the browser
A canvas-backed compositor lets you mix multiple live sources in app.wave.online, with hardware encoding and a software fallback.
Jun 27, 2026
Renderfeature
GPU render tier for 4K and 8K output
Heavier renders can finish on a GPU tier with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding, priced by resolution-weighted minutes for custom and ultrawide sizes.
Jun 25, 2026
Platformfeature
Self-serve checkout and billing portal
Sign up and pay through a hosted checkout, then manage your plan, payment method, and invoices in a billing portal. Covers plans and metered usage.
Platformfeature
A public pricing page with plans and SKUs
See every plan and usage-based SKU on one pricing page, rendered from the live pricing feed, alongside a machine-readable pricing manifest.
Connectfeature
Turn recordings into clips
Generate clips from your recordings through the WAVE clip engine, with each clip linked back to its source recording. You can also export a single still frame.
Realtimefeature
Real-time voice agents with barge-in
Run a live voice agent in a room that listens, responds, and stops speaking the moment a caller interrupts.
Jun 20, 2026
Platformfeature
Broadcast transport fabrics: MXL, RIST, AES67, ST 2110
Route professional broadcast transports through WAVE as metered protocol fabrics, covering MXL, RIST, AES67, and ST 2110.
Jun 18, 2026
Renderfeature
Render template library grows to 38 templates
New explainer, agenda, FAQ, steps, roadmap, and team templates join the library, bringing the render catalog to 38 ready-to-use templates.
Jun 16, 2026
Transcribefeature
Transcription API with multiple engine choices
Transcribe audio through a single WAVE API, with a choice of engines tuned for accuracy or speed.
Captionsfeature
Captions API with WebVTT, SRT, and JSON output
Generate captions and get them back as WebVTT, SRT, or JSON from a single gateway-fronted endpoint.
Voicefeature
Text-to-speech voice synthesis
Turn text into natural spoken audio through the WAVE Voice API.
Jun 15, 2026
Connectfeature
Connect your Zoom account to import recordings
Link your Zoom account with a self-service OAuth flow, and completed Zoom recordings flow in automatically to feed clips.
Dispatchfeature
Verifiable receipts on every Dispatch response
Each paid WAVE Dispatch response carries a payment receipt and a signed context attestation, and you can verify them at a public endpoint.
Jun 11, 2026
Platformfeature
Every WAVE surface is agent-discoverable
Agents can find WAVE from anywhere — the gateway and every spoke now publish an MCP manifest and an agent card that point straight to the tools and how to pay for them.
Gatewayimprovement
Errors that explain themselves
Every API error returns a plain-language reason, a suggested fix, and a “did you mean” hint — so people and agents can self-correct without digging through the docs.
Jun 10, 2026
Voicefeature
Word-level timestamps in the Voice API
The Voice API now returns per-word timing alongside the audio, so word-synced captions and karaoke highlighting work with no extra alignment step.
Gatewayfeature
Signed receipts for every payment
Each agent payment now returns a signed receipt, and a new receipts API lets you verify any charge after the fact — proof without trust.
Jun 9, 2026
Agent commerceimprovement
Sanctions screening on every payment
Agent payments are screened against sanctions lists before they settle — compliant machine commerce, on by default.
Gatewayfeature
Automatic credit when sync slips
If audio and video drift past the sync SLA, WAVE credits the affected usage back on its own — no ticket, no ask.
Gatewayimprovement
Pay per stream-minute
Usage is metered per stream-minute and per audio-minute at the edge and attributed to your key — transparent, per-use billing.
Gatewayimprovement
Standards-based sign-in
OIDC and OAuth discovery now resolve to a real identity provider, so you can wire WAVE into your own auth with standard tooling.
Dispatchfeature
More payout currencies
The payment bridge settles in more currencies, so agents and operators can transact where they actually work.
Jun 8, 2026
Blogfeature
The WAVE blog is live
blog.wave.online is open — stories and deep dives on the video-and-payments layer, every post narrated by WAVE Voice.
Blogfeature
Listen to any post
Every post can be played as audio — narrated by WAVE Voice, with word-synced captions and a downloadable transcript.
Jun 7, 2026
Brand & Webfeature
What you can build on WAVE
A new page for the one capability under everything — metered video, payable by anyone — and the things you can build on it, from per-stream creator payouts to agent-payable video.
Agent commerceimprovement
x402 discovery now resolves from DNS
The _x402 discovery record is live, so an agent can resolve WAVE's payment terms straight from DNS before it calls.
Platformimprovement
Public pages stay free of internal notes
A build check now blocks internal working notes from reaching any public page — what you read on wave.online is the customer story, nothing meant for the team.
Jun 6, 2026
Money Enginefeature
Money Engine page
Payments, identity, and compliance for people and agents on one rail — mirrored to the Media Engine, with honest live / building / planned status.
Brand & Webfeature
The WAVE story
A narrative page on why WAVE exists, the two engines behind the platform, and who it's for.
Agent commercefeature
x402 facilitator landing
A page for the live x402 facilitator on Base mainnet — how agents pay per use, with sanctions screening on the payment path.
Brand & Webimprovement
Positioning: video infrastructure first
Refreshed the platform message — WAVE is video infrastructure for the agentic internet, with agent-native payments as the differentiator.
Platformimprovement
Media Engine claims substantiated
As real transports and SDKs shipped — RIST, SRT, AES67, OMT, the media-engine SDK, and the MCP tools — the claims register was updated to match.
Jun 4, 2026
Agent commercefeature
Agents page
WAVE's agentic-commerce stack on one page — how agents discover, negotiate, and pay for any capability.
Platformfeature
Machine-readable capabilities registry
Published a capabilities.json so agents and crawlers can enumerate every WAVE capability from one source.
Jun 3, 2026
Platformimprovement
WAVE fully on the Cloudflare edge
wave.online and every spoke now run as Cloudflare Workers; the prior Vercel hosting is fully retired.
Brand & Webfeature
The name — /av brand page
The living W·A·V·E acronym: a cycling headline and a letter band, each meaning tied to a real capability.
Protocol & Media Enginefeature
Media Engine page
Timing, integrity, sync, reliability, and metering handled once — every transport inherits it. With honest live / building / planned status.
Platformimprovement
Live status page
Per-surface edge probes, grouped by Web and Platform, with the real HTTP status — no fabricated uptime.
Discoveryfeature
Agent discovery: llms.txt across surfaces
Machine-readable llms.txt on apex, developer, docs, agents, and the protocol spokes — one map agents read first.
Complianceimprovement
Legal & compliance pages upleveled
Sticky on-page tables of contents, anchored sections, and last-updated badges — the reviewed text preserved verbatim.
Gatewayimprovement
Crawlable discovery + sitemap
Added a sitemap and robots pointer to the API gateway surface.
Bridgedocs
Sitemap + llms.txt
Agent-discovery and sitemap routes on the protocol bridge (honestly labeled early scaffold).
Protocol spokesdocs
Brand titles + llms.txt — NDI / OMT / Dante
Corrected page titles to the WAVE brand and added agent-discovery to the NDI, OMT, and Dante spokes.
Dispatchfeature
Live agent commerce over x402
Agents discover, negotiate, and settle for edge AI inference over HTTP-402 (x402) and MPP — on Base mainnet, with sanctions screening on the payment path, pay-per-use, no account.
Developer experiencefeature
Published SDK fleet
@wave-av/sdk and @wave-av/cli on npm, wave-sdk on PyPI, plus the ADK and a public MCP server.
Brand & Webimprovement
Topbar + footer color system
The WAVE wordmark inherits the color of the product scrolling beneath it; the footer mark stays in sync.
Platformdocs
Open-source READMEs refreshed
The public org profile and customer-facing repos audited; thin READMEs rewritten to the WAVE standard.
May 2026
AI capabilitiesfeature
Multi-language captions, auto-chapters & entity detection
Captions across more languages, automatic chapter generation, and entity detection — one API, person or agent.