The Machines Got a Wallet: x402 Goes Live as Stablecoins Hit $300 Billion

How a dormant HTTP status code and a $500 billion valuation fight tell the same story: money is finally becoming native to the internet. For three decades, the HTTP specification carried a status code that did nothing. Code 402 — "Payment Required" — was reserved in the 1990s for a future in which t…

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