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🚨 TODAY: Jack Dorsey's Block joins the x402 Foundation and contributes Bitcoin Lightning payments to the open standard for AI agent payments.View quoted post on X
⚡️ BITCOIN LIGHTNING SUPPORT MERGED INTO x402View quoted post on X
The x402 Foundation has officially merged the specification for Lightning payments into its open internet payments standard.
x402, originally developed by Coinbase, is designed to give AI agents and applications a native way to autonomously pay for things across the internet.
Instead of creating an account, entering a credit card or managing API subscriptions, an agent can encounter a 402 “Payment Required” response, make the required payment and continue its task automatically.
Coinbase has made x402 a major part of its agentic payments strategy, and the protocol is now governed through the Linux Foundation with participation from companies including Cloudflare, Google, AWS, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and American Express.
Adding Lightning means Bitcoin can now plug directly into this emerging machine-to-machine payments standard.
An AI agent could pay sats for an API call, data, compute, an MCP tool or another digital resource and cryptographically prove that payment using the Lightning preimage.
If AI agents become major economic actors on the internet, Bitcoin now has a native path to becoming money they can use.
