An engineer discovered that the x402 payment protocol's payer signature does not cover the URL, allowing the resource field to be mutated without invalidating the signature. Testing 18 field mutations…
A developer launched x402, a pay-per-call API platform offering 337 utility tools including DNS lookups, QR codes, AI chat, and code review, with a free trial of 3 calls and paid plans starting at €0.…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told crypto founders on July 26 that pivoting to AI is "zero sum, scarcity thinking," arguing instead that crypto payment rails are essential for AI agents that need to tr…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is promoting agentic finance as the company's x402 payment protocol has processed over 100 million machine-to-machine transactions in nine months, with 30-day volumes reac…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argued on July 26 that artificial intelligence enhances cryptocurrency's importance, positioning blockchain as essential infrastructure for autonomous AI agents that will …
Fastly Compute enables edge enforcement of x402 HTTP-native payment challenges for automated transactions, allowing services to require payment before requests reach the origin. The x402 protocol uses…
Soar AI on July 26, 2026, released what it calls the first Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface for booking flights at market rates with no extra fees, supporting x402 payments and compatibility wit…
Maginary.ai, an image/video generator with a Midjourney-like prompt syntax using 40+ underlying models, announced a major update integrating seedance2 and GPT-images2 support. The platform, which acts…
A developer migrating a live x402 payment-gated API from V1 to V2 on Base mainnet documented undocumented gotchas, including that V1 services are rejected by x402scan and silently lose requests from V…
Conway, an autonomous Claude-based agent supervised by a non-developer, built and deployed Conway Address Intel, a pay-per-call address intelligence service on Base using the x402 protocol. The servic…
Brothers Justin and Michael Blau have launched Drip, a platform that enables AI agents to pay content creators via USDC micropayments on Base and Tempo networks, aiming to complement rather than repla…
A developer built 53 pay-per-call APIs that AI agents can autonomously pay for using the x402 payment protocol, settling in USDC on Base. The APIs require no account or API key—agents simply pay a few…
Mu, a personal home server released as a single Go binary, runs everyday services — news, mail, markets, weather, search, images, video, blog, social, places, reminders — behind a Go Micro registry wi…
The x402 protocol enables autonomous AI agents to pay for API calls without human intervention, using the HTTP 402 status code for machine-to-machine payments. WAIaaS, an open-source Wallet-as-a-Servi…
A developer built Ledgermind, a system that gives AI agents verifiable credit histories based on independently graded work rather than self-reported success. The platform uses acceptance-test jobs and…
Mu launches APIs for agents, offering capabilities such as news, markets, weather, web search, video, and mail over MCP and REST, with x402 stablecoin micropayments per request and first calls free.…
Bank of AI has launched x402, an open blockchain payment standard built on the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code that enables web services to charge for APIs or content through a pay-before-respon…
Coinbase's Layer-2 blockchain Base is pivoting from social media to trading, payments, and AI agents after its social features failed. Jesse Pollak, head of protocols at Coinbase and creator of Base, …
A population-scale measurement of the x402 protocol on Base and Solana reveals that 136,708,672 settlements worth $44,121,383.81 over 280 days are not proof of an AI agent economy, as 21.20% are ficti…
The Linux Foundation has formed a governance body for the x402 protocol, a Coinbase-developed standard enabling autonomous AI agent payments, with 40 member companies including Google, Circle, AWS, Am…