x402 Protocol: The Internet’s First Native Payment LayerFor more than three decades, the internet mastered one thing better than any invention in human history: moving information. It could stream videos, serve APIs, deliver messages, and host entire economies yet it never gained the ability to move money natively. When the original designers of the web defined HTTP status codes, they reserved one number for a future capability: 402 Payment Required. It wasn’t truly implemented in the Web2 er...

x402 Protocol: The Internet’s First Native Payment LayerFor more than three decades, the internet mastered one thing better than any invention in human history: moving information. It could stream videos, serve APIs, deliver messages, and host entire economies yet it never gained the ability to move money natively. When the original designers of the web defined HTTP status codes, they reserved one number for a future capability: 402 Payment Required. It wasn’t truly implemented in the Web2 er...