USDC
USD Coin - a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Circle and the default settlement asset for most x402 deployments.
Related terms
- Settlement - The on-chain finalisation of an x402 payment, confirmed by a facilitator before the resource server serves the paid response.
- Base - Coinbase's Layer 2 optimistic rollup, the primary settlement network used by x402 because of its low fees and native USDC support.
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