How x402 Brings Open Source Governance to Payments
summary
x402 presents an open, chain-agnostic payments layer that uses HTTP 402 as a stateless challenge–response: a server returns payment terms and the client settles on‑chain. It is Apache‑2.0 licensed with no protocol fees, runs today on Base and Solana with per‑transaction costs around $0.0086 and $0.0048, and deployments show one‑line middleware integration, ~75.4 tx/day, ~$24.2k volume, ~22k sellers, and use of facilitators for settlement and batching to enable micropayments.
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- 0:00X402 and open source payments
- 5:40Why X402 after HTTP 402
- 12:21X402 adoption metrics
- 14:09Open governance for X402
- 18:22Agent commerce with X402
- 24:22Value capture in X402
- 28:35Q&A
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