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Author: Haotian; Source: X, @tmel0211
Solana Labs co-founder Toly (@aeyakovenko) retweeted this post,The discussion of x402 has become popular in overseas communities.It’s just that I feel that there is too much focus on discussing what exactly x402 technology is?What characteristics and flaws it has does not allow it to exert its maximum “power”.Fortunately,Someone really started preaching from the grand perspective of AI+Crypto changing traditional Internet payment.!
Let me take the lead in “preaching” in Jianzhong District:
The original sin of the traditional Internet: Advertising model, when Visa and Mastercard dominate huge terminal channels and fee structures, when payments are naturally divided by national borders, and cross-border transfers often take several days and are costly.
This results in,The Internet can only choose the path of “free content + advertising monetization” because the economic model of everyone’s micropayments simply does not work.;
But the emergence of AI Agent completely subverts this logic:
you think,When content consumers change from “people” to “AI Agents”, the traditional Internet business model based on the attention economy is destined to fail, because you cannot sell products to an algorithm.
To adapt to Agent’s new payment infrastructure, it must meet its high-frequency API calls, automated transactions, cross-platform data capture and other features, which naturally requires a more “instant, micro-amount, and borderless” payment system.
This is the truth behind Paypal’s introduction of @GoKiteAI, Stripe’s deployment of @tempo, and Tether’s combination of @Plasma and @stable. The entire payment system is about to be turbulent and turned upside down!
This is the narrative foundation of the killer scenario of x402+ blockchain:
Blockchain, especially Solana, has achieved ultra-low-cost rates and high TPS, allowing every API call and every data access to be accurately priced and settled in milliseconds;
Combined with the x402 protocol, a seamless whole process of “AI sends request -> Facilitator processes payment -> delivers content” is developed.
In this way, the foundation that Crypto has built has become a necessity in the Internet world, and x402 has become a key protocol connecting the Internet and Crypto. My mother no longer has to think that the AI+Crypto I am engaged in is not good enough.
so,x402 is more than just a payment protocol. It is the cornerstone of the Internet economic model in the AI era and the first piece of the puzzle to realize the true integration of Crypto and AI..
