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I can't wait to see it in play somewhere because I am increasingly annoyed that I have to own API keys on various platforms etc. etc. I just want my agent to make decisions and spend a…","points":null,"created_at":"2026-07-01T21:22:02.000Z"},{"author":"cphoover","text":"This doesn't seem to solve the issue that website operators face... which is providing a free public experience to humans while the price of hosting is driven up by increased bot traffic. The issue isn't charging for API access with request caps, that's not hard to do. It's preserving the free experience for our users while our traffic is increasingly made up of bots. The problem is that AI has m…","points":null,"created_at":"2026-07-01T19:53:49.000Z"}]},{"source":"hackernews","title":"x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments","text":null,"url":"https://www.x402.org/","discussion_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347335","author":"thm","community":null,"points":228,"comments":147,"created_at":"2025-09-23T14:14:46Z","top_comments":[{"author":"smashem","text":"18 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/6hc3w/comment/c03udg0/ > \"This code is reserved for future use.\" > For when AT&T, Comcast, TimeWarner, et. al. have succeeded in their plan to make the interweb a toll-road. \"Oh, you want your packets to go to reddit.com? That will be $0.00015/per.\" Redditor had the right idea, just wrong names.","points":null,"created_at":"2025-09-23T17:26:27.000Z"},{"author":"aeon_ai","text":"For those who are interested in origins, a Coinbase sponsored protocol. With Stripe moving into the space heavily and looking to lock things up in \"Stripe-land\", I think having an open protocol is great.","points":null,"created_at":"2025-09-23T15:01:26.000Z"}]},{"source":"hackernews","title":"X402, a static blog monetization excercise","text":null,"url":"https://shtein.me/posts/x402-poc/","discussion_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802885","author":"morty28","community":null,"points":47,"comments":38,"created_at":"2026-07-06T10:37:58Z","top_comments":[{"author":"unkl_","text":"I'm curious about the legal implications of this. For example: - In the EU, a consumer has 14 days to withdraw from a contract that you have concluded online, unless the consumer explicitly waives this right during the purchase (so your payment required page will need an explicit statement about this). - I'm pretty sure in the EU, and probably most countries, you must receive an invoice, even if …","points":null,"created_at":"2026-07-06T14:39:08.000Z"},{"author":"chrismorgan","text":"Quite apart from whether the concept can succeed after having failed a number of well-funded and well-publicised times— I open https://shtein.me/api/joke in a normal-enough browser (Firefox Nightly with Enhanced Tracking Protection and uBlock Origin). After loading its 2.3MB response (no useful HTML, just a huge inlined JS blob, and served without transfer compression), it asks me to select a wal…","points":null,"created_at":"2026-07-06T13:39:16.000Z"}]}],"bluesky":[{"source":"bluesky","title":null,"text":"Foto x402. 🍐🍐","url":null,"discussion_url":"https://bsky.app/profile/maya-79.bsky.social/post/3m4tb6hob6c2o","author":"maya-79.bsky.social","community":null,"points":87,"comments":3,"created_at":"2025-11-04T19:24:45.860Z","top_comments":[]},{"source":"bluesky","title":null,"text":"The Linux Foundation has appointed payments industry veteran Michael Hursta as Executive Director of the x402 Foundation, where he’ll lead 50+ organizations advancing x402, an open standard for internet-native payments across AI agents, applications and APIs. 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Fuck the attitude of money money money. The Internet and the WWW was built to share information.","points":30,"created_at":"2026-07-01T23:28:44.366859Z"}]},{"source":"lemmy","title":"Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402","text":">Also relevant: https://netdollar.cloudflare.com/","url":"https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/","discussion_url":"https://infosec.pub/post/48836097","author":"cm0002","community":"technology","points":3,"comments":0,"created_at":"2026-07-01T23:29:25.217912Z","top_comments":[]},{"source":"lemmy","title":"x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments","text":"Comments","url":"https://www.x402.org/","discussion_url":"https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/634856","author":"rssbot","community":"hackernews","points":3,"comments":0,"created_at":"2025-09-23T14:50:00.587541Z","top_comments":[]}]},"fetched_at":"2026-10-07T08:31:25.024Z"},"trial":{"free":true,"used_example_input":true,"input_used":{"query":"x402","limit":3,"comments":2},"remaining_today":2,"resets_at":"2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z","note":"Real output for the example input. 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