Coinbase just validated our entire thesis.
AI agents and APIs desperately need a native HTTP payment layer.
Look at that logo wall though.
Visa,
Mastercard,
Stripe,
Google.
A surveillance cartel is stepping in to front-run the machine economy. They took the future of M2M payments and wrapped it in KYC, geo-blocks, and corporate permission.
Reality check. Autonomous AI agents aren't passing Stripe identity checks. They don't carry physical Visa cards. x402 is just traditional fiat tracking wearing a Web3 trench coat.
We built
@xmr402 because machine economies must be permissionless.
Pay an API with Monero. Read the data. Leave zero metadata behind.
No accounts.
No corporate chokepoints.
Just pure cryptographic money over HTTP.
We shipped the parallel economy while they were still forming a committee.
Corporate permission or cryptographic sovereignty.
Choose your protocol. 🏴☠️