Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase Launch x402 Foundation for AI-Enabled…

Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, and 37+ other financial and tech companies have formed the x402 Foundation to develop an open AI-driven payments standard extending HTTP for seamless value transfers between users and machines. The initiative aims to prevent proprietary walled gardens and enable a global public financial system compatible with autonomous agent commerce. If you build payment infrastructure, autonomous agents, or machine-to-machine commerce, Visa and Mastercard just published their playbook for how value moves in that world—and you're either compatible with x402 or you're orphaned. The standard is live; adoption starts now.