CAIP
Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals - a family of standards (CAIP-2, CAIP-10, CAIP-19) used by x402 to identify chains, accounts, and assets in a portable way.
Related terms
- x402 - An open payment protocol built on top of HTTP 402 that lets servers demand stablecoin payment before serving a resource, and lets clients (i
- Payment Requirements - The machine-readable description of what a resource server demands for access - chain, asset, amount, recipient, facilitator, and expiry.
Recent stories
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- Coinbase Q1 call: 99% of x402 settled in USDC, 90% of agentic stablecoin volume on Base - Choi calls x402 'the open standard for the next wave of agentic commerce' · theglobeandmail.com
- Circle ships Nanopayments on mainnet - gas-free USDC down to $0.000001 across 11 chains, fully x402 v2 compatible · circle.com
- Kite ships mainnet + Agent Passport - first x402-native chain with programmable agent wallets goes live · globenewswire.com
- Utexo enables USDT payments on x402 with near-instant Bitcoin-native settlement · prnewswire.com
- AWS Bedrock integrates x402 - first major cloud provider with native HTTP 402 payment rails for agents · cryptobriefing.com