payment protocol

Payment Revolution! The 27-Year-Old HTTP Code Reshaping Money Flow in the AI Era

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“Your AI assistant wants to book a flight for you, costing $0.005? You don’t have to worry, it will pay automatically.” This is not a science fiction movie, but a reality that is happening. Imagine this: your AI assistant plans a perfect trip for you late at night, needing to call 5 different APIs to … Read more

x402: Reusing HTTP 402 for Internet-Native Stablecoin Payments

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x402: Reusing HTTP 402 for Internet-Native Stablecoin Payments

Disclaimer: this is a report generated with my tool: https://github.com/DTeam-Top/tsw-cli. See it as an experiment not a formal research, 😄. Abstract This report studies x402, an open standard initiated by Coinbase that repurposes the HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code to facilitate internet-native on-chain stablecoin payments. x402 aims to embed programmable, pay-per-use value exchange directly … Read more