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Nemil Dalal
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402 Payment Required: a New Way for AI Agents to Pay, with Nemil Dalal, Dev Platform Lead @ Coinbase
Stablecoins have reached roughly $250 billion, with reserve yields of about 3%-4.5% generating more than $10 billion in annual issuer economics. x402 repurposes HTTP 402 into a stablecoin rail where agents pay per request for inference, data, messaging, and specialist-agent work, with Coinbase middleware making acceptance “basically one line of JavaScript.”The opportunity depends on cheaper chains and hard wallet limits, while reputation, collateral, slashing, and circuit breakers remain unresolved as autonomous agents gain control of potentially “millions, if not billions of dollars.”