Today, @CoinbaseDev is announcing x402: an open standard/protocol to bring onchain payments to the web. Join us in killing the API key, and making the agentic and payable web a reality. All in one line of code.
Imagine a future where crypto is the default to pay for *anything*.
Nemil Dalal
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@ycombinator Visiting Partner focused on crypto
| x402 ambassador | Ex-@coinbasedev lead | Ex-$USDC lead @coinbase | Crypto class of 2014 | YC S12, Stanford
- After 7 years, my time at Coinbase has come to an end. It was the ride of a lifetime (launching x402 as just the latest example). Meeting @brian_armstrong and @FEhrsam, the cofounders of Coinbase, in @ycombinator Summer 2012 was transformational. They gave me my first Bitcoin
- Update: I'm now leading the Developer team at Coinbase (@CoinbaseDev). It's been a wild ride: from growing USDC to $1 BN+, adding 10+ blockchains, launching staking & bridging ... Next mission, bring 1 MM developers onchain through onramps, wallets, commerce, staking. Day 1.
- Nearly 150 people coming to our first x402 in person gathering in San Francisco this evening. The x402 movement is growing.
- Well this just happened. x402 transactions have exploded. Slowly, then all at once.
- Epic weekend with tons of hackers building at the @CoinbaseDev hackathon in Brooklyn, NY. Builders flew in from Malaysia, Italy, Canada, and more just for the event. And we dropped some alpha of what's coming from us. Some highlights from Day 1 🧵 #codenyc
- Coinbase ❤️ Cloudflare = x402 Foundation With @Cloudflare and @coinbase, x402 is now a global and collaborative movement to reshape the internet by adding internet-native payments with the HTTP 402 status code. Here's why this is a big deal 👇
- Google Agent Payments Protocol 🤝 x402Great to see this Brian! The best way to build the agent ecosystem is open and together. Congrats to @coinbase for extending its x402 protocol to AP2.
- Hello, world. Excited to introduce Reva. With how good today's building tools are and the cool stuff you can create, I anticipate she'll be an expert vibe coder in just a few years 😉
00:00 - San Francisco This Weekend 100+ builders from around the world Building Onchain AI with @CoinbaseDev and @base Amazing to see the energy and creativity at our AI hackathon.
- Thrilled to announce that @programmer is joining @CoinbaseDev as our new Head of Engineering. With Erik’s leadership, we’re doubling down on making it frictionless to build onchain. 1M developers. 1B users. Onchain. Let’s go. 🌎
- "It scares me how much of the world runs on top of stuff that people basically do in their free time." - @steveklabnik on open source software
- The x402 community is growing, and it's time to get folks together. Come talk to other x402 builders at the first x402 community happy hour in San Francisco on October 8th evening. (Link below) More events coming soon.











