Sam Ragsdale

CEO & Founder, Merit Systems · NYC · github · twitter · linkedin

Formerly a16z crypto, Google

now

Building Merit Systems — open agentic commerce. Give an agent a wallet, let it buy data, tools, and access on the open internet. Infrastructure for the x402 protocol ecosystem. $10M seed from a16z and Blockchain Capital.

npx agentcash install
work
AgentCash — give your agent money 2026
Poncho — the agentic mule 2026
x402scan — ecosystem explorer 2025
Echo — monetize AI apps in minutes 2025
Emergence: Let a Billion APIs Compose 2025
Merit Terminal — open source contributor payments 2025
Merit Systems $10M Seed — CNBC 2025
Open Source Capitalism 2025
Jolt — world's fastest zkVM 2024
Building Jolt — a16z podcast 2024
AVX512: 16x acceleration for 256-bit fields 2024
Understanding Lasso and Jolt, theory to code 2023
Engineering Jolt — ZK Summit 10 2023
Big things in crypto — a16z 2023
On-chain subjective oracles 2023
On-chain trusted setup ceremony 2022
zkDocs — zero knowledge information sharing 2022
zkDrops — private airdrops for Ethereum 2022