A sharp week for the x402 ecosystem across the board. Volume picked up, speculation grew, and the space kept moving from testing into real adoption and use cases. Circle getting more serious about AI is one more sign of where this is headed. Here's what shipped 👇
Brian Armstrong called x402 "inevitable." We checked the receipts: 169M+ payments, a Linux Foundation handoff, and a Coinbase-built protocol Coinbase doesn't fully control anymore.
Here's what's actually driving the growth 👇
Agentic Talks #2: The Stack Behind Agentic Commerce
Agentic commerce is more than payments. It takes a full stack to make agents actually transact.
This episode, we’re bringing builders from different layers of the @x402 ecosystem into one room:
• @PayAINetwork - facilitator
Base's founder @jessepollak put it plainly: the fastest, cheapest, easiest way to pay someone is onchain. 💸
Now make the payer an AI agent. No card, no checkout, no human clicking "buy."
Just HTTP 402 + stablecoins. That's the PayAI way.
