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Subscriptions aren’t really about payments. They’re about ongoing permission. Payment is just the recurring signal we use to confirm that permission is still valid — and that distinction quietly shapes how automated systems succeed or fail.

Micropayments don’t eliminate subscriptions. They hide them. What keeps reappearing isn’t a billing model, but the need for delegated, time-bound permission that payments alone can’t express.

Web3 has solved payments. You can move USDC across the world in seconds, settle instantly, skip the banking rails entirely. What's missing is the authorization layer. The thing that sits upstream of a payment and answers one question: is this merchant still allowed to charge this customer?