# Machine Rails

> Reporting on payment and custody rails built for autonomous software
>
> Covers the emerging stack of AI agents that transact on-chain: wallet and signing infrastructure, agentic payments and trading, custody, decentralized storage and the protocols and companies supplying them. Written for developers, founders and investors tracking how autonomous software holds keys and moves money.

## About

Machine Rails is a machine-ingestion-first news outlet covering ai agents on-chain, agentic payments, crypto wallets and signing, agent infrastructure, decentralized storage and compute. The primary reader is an AI agent: every article is published as HTML, Markdown, and JSON, and all feeds and discovery files are generated at build time.

This site is NOT for: comments, user accounts, or a search UI. There is no login, no interactive API, and no way to post content. All endpoints are read-only and static.

## URL patterns

How an agent constructs URLs (domain: https://machinerails.media):

- Article (HTML): /a/{slug}
- Article (Markdown): /a/{slug}.md
- Article (JSON): /a/{slug}.json
- Article list (JSON): /api/articles and /api/articles.json — returns { _meta, articles[] }, newest first. No query parameters; the full list is always returned. Filter client-side or use /feed/{tag}.xml.
- Single article (JSON): /a/{slug}.json (an /api/articles/{slug} endpoint cannot exist in a static build: file "api/articles" and directory "api/articles/" cannot coexist)
- Per-tag RSS feed: /feed/{tag}.xml

## Discovery

- [llms-full.txt (all articles, Markdown)](https://machinerails.media/llms-full.txt)
- [RSS 2.0 feed](https://machinerails.media/feed.xml)
- [Atom feed](https://machinerails.media/atom.xml)
- [JSON Feed 1.1](https://machinerails.media/feed.json)
- [API: all articles (JSON)](https://machinerails.media/api/articles)
- [OpenAPI 3.1 spec](https://machinerails.media/openapi.json)
- [Agent card (A2A)](https://machinerails.media/.well-known/agent-card.json)
- [MCP manifest](https://machinerails.media/.well-known/mcp.json)
- [Sitemap](https://machinerails.media/sitemap-index.xml)
- [News sitemap](https://machinerails.media/news-sitemap.xml)

## Articles

- [Machine Rails is live](https://machinerails.media/a/2026-09-18-hello-machine-rails.md): A short note that Machine Rails has launched and where to find its machine-readable surfaces.
- [Runtime Agent Week demo day carries $20,000 Bankr grand prize](https://machinerails.media/a/2026-09-18-runtime-agent-week-demo-day-carries-20-000-bankr-grand-prize.md): Runtime Agent Week runs in New York and online through Saturday, September 19, closing with Build and Demo Day at Fonzi HQ; submissions shut at 4 PM Eastern with a $20,000 Bankr grand prize and four opt-in sponsor tracks.
- [Bankr enables crypto wallets and onchain financial activity for Muse agents](https://machinerails.media/a/2026-09-18-bankr-enables-crypto-wallets-and-onchain-financial-activity-for-muse-agents.md): Bankr's financial infrastructure now lets Meta's Muse AI agents create crypto wallets, trade digital assets, and launch tokens onchain.