Tag: x402 protocol
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How Will We Pay AI Agents? Exploring AiFi with Lincoln Murr
For thirty years, the web was built for eyeballs: human fingers tapping credit card numbers into static forms, clicking ‘I am not a robot,’ and waiting for a bank to approve thirty bucks. But that web just slipped into the minority. Today, over 57% of all internet traffic isn’t human—it’s autonomous AI agents scraping, computing,…
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KYA: Why Your AI Agent Needs a Digital ID to Spend Your Money with Chandler Fang
Since late 2024, I have been yammering on to whomever will listen, at parties, dog parks, grocery store lines, about one of the most important areas of our future, Agentic AI. We are rapidly entering a new era where the assistant doesn’t just suggest the flight; it books it, pays for it, and could also…
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Agentic AI: The Tokenized Future – Inside Nansen with Alex Svanevik
The world of finance is undergoing a metamorphosis so bizarre that not even Franz Kafka could have dreamt it up. We are watching the convergence of retail and institutional trading become entirely automated, driven by Agentic AI, and increasingly tokenized. Having just returned from speaking at Davos on this very intersection of blockchain and AI,…
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x402
For nearly three decades, a ghost has haunted the infrastructure of the World Wide Web. Buried deep within the hyper-text transfer protocol, the very language browsers and servers use to speak to one another, sat a reserved, unused status code. You know 200 (OK). You definitely know 404 (Not Found) and probably 500 (Internal Server…
