Block joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning support to the open payment protocol used by AI agents, web services and applications, according to a September 24 announcement. A Se…
Block has joined the x402 Foundation and added Bitcoin Lightning support to the x402 payment protocol, expanding its push into payments for AI agents. Steve Lee, head of Block's Bitcoin development in…
Cardano's native integration into the x402 SDK was merged into the official x402 repository around September 9, 2026, with Cardano Foundation engineers contributing the client, server, and facilitator…
A developer argues that utility APIs should adopt payment-as-authorization using the x402 protocol, an open HTTP payment standard led by the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation, rather than req…
Monad's API Hub launched a marketplace enabling pay-per-request access to 66 blockchain data services using USDC, with prices from $0.01 to $7.50 per call and no accounts or API keys required. The hub…
The Linux Foundation announced on 2 April 2026 at MCP Dev Summit North America that it is launching the x402 Foundation, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol and named intending supporters inc…
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation, a 40-member industry consortium that governs the open standard AI agents use to make payments online, with founding members including Adyen, Amaz…
AI agents completed 23.1 million stablecoin transfers via the x402 protocol in the past 30 days, with cumulative volume reaching 75 million transactions totaling about $24 million since launch, accord…
Injective has joined the x402 Foundation as a core member, bringing its sub-second transaction finality to a payment protocol backed by AWS, Google, Visa, and Mastercard. The x402 protocol is now live…
Solana surpassed Base in daily x402 transactions for the first time in six months, recording 518,400 payments on January 20, 2026, versus Base's 505,000. By mid-August 2026, Solana captured roughly 70…
XDC Network launched $XDC AI, a marketplace enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for digital services using USDC via the x402 standard, demonstrated in New York on July 29, 2026, before over 100 rep…
AI agents transferred 3.3 million USDC on Solana via the x402 protocol in the past week, with 5.1 million total transfers over the last 90 days, according to Token Terminal metrics. The x402 Foundatio…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, giving AI agents programmable, two-tier wallets with spending caps and verifiable identities, built on the x402 protocol. …
AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with the broader ecosystem processing 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume, according to the…
Mu, an open-source MCP server by Micro, now accepts USDC payments via Coinbase's x402 protocol, enabling agents to pay for tools without holding ETH or creating accounts. A live transaction on Base ma…
Coinbase has introduced x402, an open, HTTP-native payment standard that enables AI agents and other autonomous software to pay for APIs automatically using stablecoins like USDC. Built on the HTTP 40…
Cloudflare launched Wallets and the x402 protocol on August 4, 2026, enabling AI agents to make autonomous stablecoin payments via HTTP requests. The system pairs an Account Wallet owned by a human wi…
Cloudflare launched cloudflare.id, a persistent identity tool and wallet that lets AI agents verify their identity and make payments, with transactions settling in USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 bloc…
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, an open standards body for AI agent payments, with 40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Google,…
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to oversee the x402 payment protocol, an open standard enabling AI agents and applications to pay for digital services directly over HTTP. Forty o…