Belong’s Long Events lets AI agents buy event data with USDC

The new platform charges $0.005 per API call and covers 400 cities, with payments built for software rather than people Belong has launched Long Events, a live event data platform built for AI agents that can search schedules and pay for each query in USDC. The service went live on November 4, 2026, and covers 400 cities across 118 countries. The pitch is simple. Your AI assistant wants to know what’s playing in Lisbon next Friday, so it asks, pays a fraction of a cent, and gets an answer. No human with a credit card has to step in. What Long Events actually does Event listings are scattered across many ticketing sites and organizers, and each formats the same concert differently. Long Events pulls those listings into one standardized catalog and cleans up the inconsistencies, so agents aren’t left reconciling conflicting data on their own. The catalog is sizable. It includes details on 500,000 past and upcoming events, 300 event weeks, 180,000 venues, and 80,000 artists. Agents can query the data in two ways: a REST API and 16 Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. A REST API is the standard way software requests data over the web. MCP is a standardized method that lets AI models plu...