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Coinbase and Cloudflare launch x402 Foundation to make payments a core internet standard, enabling frictionless micropayments and commerce.
Author: Tanishq Bodh
Published On: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:31:47 GMT
September 23, 2025 – Coinbase and Cloudflare have teamed up to launch the x402 Foundation, an initiative designed to create an open standard for internet-native payments. Announced on September 23, 2025, by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, the effort builds on the HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code to embed seamless, low-cost transactions directly into web requests. The move reflects a broader push to modernize online commerce for emerging technologies like AI agents.
The launch sparked excitement among developers and AI researchers who see x402 as critical to enabling micropayments and agentic commerce. Armstrong highlighted that current systems, plagued by high fees and geographic limits, have held back innovation. On X, users praised the initiative as a step toward a “value-native internet,” with potential to reshape how AI agents, creators, and businesses transact online. Analysts argue that by embedding payments into HTTP responses, x402 could remove friction from digital services while expanding markets for AI and content platforms.
Despite optimism, challenges remain. Regulatory oversight of programmable payments is still evolving, raising compliance questions. Adoption depends on developer buy-in and industry collaboration, with skeptics noting that past attempts at micropayment standards failed to gain traction. Critics also caution that complexity around settlement, balancing stablecoins, crypto, and fiat may slow mainstream uptake. Still, with Coinbase and Cloudflare at the helm, x402 has institutional credibility that earlier efforts lacked.
The x402 protocol supports instant, programmable payments across chains, stablecoins, and fiat rails. It has already integrated with Solana and piloted collaborations with Google on the Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2). Cloudflare is embedding x402 into its Agents SDK and Model Context Protocol servers, enabling use cases like pay-per-crawl for AI data access and subscription-based billing. The foundation will fund grants, tools, and developer resources to expand adoption, with a roadmap that includes pre-negotiated agreements and dynamic subscriptions.
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