Despite market turmoil, x402's AI-centric payment rails are booming, repurposing HTTP code for seamless transactions. Usage has spiked 100% in the past month, with 51K+ transactions and volume up 4400% to $51.5K thanks to adoption from these areas 👇 ~~ Analysis by @davewardonline ~~ The Problem x402 Solves x402 tackles the hassle of traditional API access by letting you pay automatically based on usage, like per-call or per-inference, with payment happening instantly as part of the request. No signing up for accounts, managing logins, or juggling subscriptions for every service. Put simply, it removes an existing, intensely frustrating point of friction around managing access for multiple services and enables agents to act as true, autonomous service providers, managing all the expenses and access they need independently. An AI agent can now discover a new tool, pay for it, use it, and move on, all without human intervention. Who's Adopting x402 The most telling sign of x402's legitimacy? Non-crypto native companies are integrating it fast, especially since Cloudflare launched NETdollar and jointly established the x402 Foundation. Major players already onboard: @vercel, the leading developer platform with 6M users, has integrated x402, bringing micropayment functionality to its massive builder community. AWS, Amazon's web services juggernaut, is supporting the standard, signaling enterprise infrastructure is taking x402 seriously. Anthropic, the creators of Claude, has enabled its models to discover, retrieve, and pay for context and tools using x402. @freepik, a popular AI creative studio tool with 700K+ users, has adopted the standard for its design platform. Google integrated the x402 protocol into its new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). Within crypto, the standard's been integrated across all major chains and by leading developer platforms in a truly chain-agnostic manner, functioning across most EVM chains and Solana. ...