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The recently popular x402 protocol has made new progress. Developed by Coinbase and specifically designed for AI agents, the open-source payment protocol x402 launched version 2 on December 11. This version optimizes the V1 foundation, expanding from a single payment call to a unified internet payment layer.
x402 was initially released in May 2025, with the idea of utilizing the long-idle 402 status code to embed payments directly into HTTP. Within just a few months, x402 processed over 100 million payments from APIs, applications, and AI agents, supporting various use cases from paid API calls to autonomous agents on-demand purchasing computing power and data.
Coinbase stated that this update upgrades and reconstructs the protocol, enabling