The Missing Piece: Payments in the AI Economy AI can now write code, trade tokens and generate Hollywood-grade video—yet it still cannot pay for a single GPU cycle. Legacy rails demand KYC, API keys, prepaid balances and charge-back windows; an autonomous agent has passport, credit score or mailing address. The result is an “AI economy” that runs entirely on IOUs and human credit cards. x402—an open protocol that bolts crypto payments into HTTP itself—wants to close the loop.HTTP 402: The Sta...

The Missing Piece: Payments in the AI Economy AI can now write code, trade tokens and generate Hollywood-grade video—yet it still cannot pay for a single GPU cycle. Legacy rails demand KYC, API keys, prepaid balances and charge-back windows; an autonomous agent has passport, credit score or mailing address. The result is an “AI economy” that runs entirely on IOUs and human credit cards. x402—an open protocol that bolts crypto payments into HTTP itself—wants to close the loop.HTTP 402: The Sta...