x402 Foundation

AWS WAF introduced AI traffic monetization, enabling content providers to charge AI bots for access via HTTP 402 Payment Required. The feature, integrated with Bot Control and CloudFront, uses the x40…

Coinbase launched 'Coinbase for Agents' on June 11, 2025, enabling AI agents to autonomously earn and spend credits via its x402 micropayments protocol. The platform uses MCP-native APIs for dynamic s…

Keyrock's analysis of 176 million x402 payments found that 76% were below a $0.30 card-fee floor and 98.6% settled in USDC, revealing that stablecoin fallback flows require careful retry policies to p…