x402 Foundation
The Linux Foundation-hosted standards body coordinating x402 specification work, reference implementations, and ecosystem grants. Launched on 2 April 2026 with 22 founding participants including Google, Microsoft, AWS, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Cloudflare, Circle, Coinbase, Solana Foundation, and Polygon Labs.
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
Recent stories
PROTOCOL
- x402 by Coinbase goes live on Arbitrum mainnet - CDP facilitator now covers a fifth chain alongside Base, Polygon, World and Solana · phemex.com
- Jesse Pollak ships batched settlement on x402 - ERC-20 escrow + offchain signed vouchers unlock sub-$0.0001 per-request pricing, directly answering the per-request-settlement bear case · cointelegraph.com
- TACEO ships Confidential x402 on Base Sepolia - 3-party MPC + zk-proofs make every payment private at ~300k gas, 8x cheaper than heavyweight ZK alternatives · finextra.com
- 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