The Breakdown Agentic Payments and the Next Internet Economy
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Sep 26, 2025 Coinbase and Cloudflare are revolutionizing online transactions with their new X402 protocol for AI agents, enabling seamless agent-to-agent payments. Tom Lee champions Ethereum as the neutral blockchain for traditional finance, while concerns linger about the influence of large ETH holders. The showdown for financial tokenization unfolds between Ethereum and Solana, with Vitalik pushing for practical DeFi applications. Meanwhile, Michael Saylor asserts Bitcoin's pivotal role in shaping digital capital markets, hinting at a dynamic future for crypto.
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Agentic Payments Enable Autonomous Commerce
- X402 enables AI agents to transact value autonomously using crypto, extending AP2's e-commerce focus into agent-to-agent payments.
- Cloudflare and Coinbase will trial AI-native agent economies using stablecoins, enabling seamless machine-to-machine commerce.
Use MCP As A Common Agent Payments Interface
- Integrate payments into agent APIs so agents can pay websites, vendors, or services without human input.
- Use standards like MCP to provide a common interface for agents to access blockchain payment networks.
Paywalls For AI Crawlers Could Reclaim Web Value
- Pay-per-web-crawler models let websites charge AI crawlers for content access and reclaim value lost to AI-driven click declines.
- X402 fills the payment gap by letting an agent for a crawler pay an agent for a webpage automatically.