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Cardano Foundation engineers have added support for the x402 payment standard, which is designed to let software pay for online services through web requests. Analytics Insight reports that they completed a transaction on Cardano’s pre-production network, with TypeScript support available first and Python support planned.
Why it mattersThat is a useful early step for agent payments, not evidence of widespread use: the transaction was not on the live network. The plumbing is being tested; the paying customers are another matter.
Discuss: Should AI agents be able to make small payments automatically, or should every transaction need a person’s approval?
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