We are excited to introduce x402–a new open source payments protocol built on HTTP rails.

Learn more: https://x402.org

Read our blog: https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform/discover/launches/x402

Let’s break it down. 👇

The @coinbasedev team took a decades unused HTTP status code and modernized it.

AI agents don't have credit cards. They do have crypto.

With x402; Your API can accept crypto, your paywall can accept crypto, your MCP server can accept crypto.

All in one line of code.

Mainly posting from @coinbase. 

https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform

this is incredible. why did no one use that?