Recent market attention has focused on the x402 protocol, designed for automated micropayments between AI agents, while its complementary underlying standard, ERC-8004, has quietly entered the scene. These are not competing entities but rather key components working together to build the commercial landscape for AI agents. * x402's Role: As the "currency" of the machine economy, the x402 protocol solves payment issues between AI agents, focusing on the payment standard within the communicatio...

Recent market attention has focused on the x402 protocol, designed for automated micropayments between AI agents, while its complementary underlying standard, ERC-8004, has quietly entered the scene. These are not competing entities but rather key components working together to build the commercial landscape for AI agents. * x402's Role: As the "currency" of the machine economy, the x402 protocol solves payment issues between AI agents, focusing on the payment standard within the communicatio...