x402 Standard: Building a Native Payment Layer for the Agentic Economy
kleffew94 · x · 2026-09-01
Peter Schroeder introduces x402, an open payment standard repurposing the unused HTTP 402 status code. Current payment layers rely on human intervention, but agents need to pay and transact at software speed. x402 enables a native mechanism for agents to act and transact autonomously, paving the way for an agentic economy.
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