Independent MeasurementNotesEntries: 2
vet402x402 EconomySeptember 2026
Blog
Notes on agent-to-agent payments, x402, and trust scoring on Base.
- What is x402? The HTTP status code that waited 28 years for a job
2026-08-13
What is x402? It's the machine-payment protocol that finally gave HTTP 402 Payment Required something to do — letting an AI agent pay for an API call in a single request. Here's how it works, where it stands today, and the one thing it deliberately doesn't tell you.
- Why agent-to-agent payments need a trust score
2026-07-21
x402 lets an AI agent pay for an API call in one HTTP round trip, but it says nothing about whether the wallet on the other end is worth paying. Here's the gap vet402 fills, and how the score is built.