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Programmable Wallets for the Agentic Internet

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Agents are coming online at a scale that makes human-in-the-loop payments impractical, and the industry's answer has converged on an unlikely source: a dormant HTTP status code from the 1990s. The x402 protocol revives HTTP 402 "Payment Required" to let AI agents pay for APIs, data, and services di…

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  1. 2026-08-30 05:00 · DEV Community — AI
    Programmable Wallets for the Agentic Internet

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