BasaltSurge – Web3 POS checkout and AI-agent commerce API

Show HN: BasaltSurge – Web3 POS checkout and AI-agent commerce API

BasaltSurge – Web3 POS checkout and AI-agent commerce API is active in the show hn launch space.

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I’m Michael, and my team at BasaltHQ has been building BasaltSurge. We originally started this under the name PortalPay, but recently rebranded as the scope expanded. It’s a payment engine designed to bypass legacy card rails at the physical point of sale and provide a standardized checkout layer for AI agents.Having worked extensively on data and payment solutions for high-friction retail environments where traditional processors take massive cuts or deny service entirely, we wanted to build something genuinely permissionless.Here is a breakdown of what we built:QR-Based POS Checkout: Merchants print a QR code on their standard POS receipt. Customers scan it to access a white-labeled, web3-

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Website: surge.basalthq.com