Autonomous agents-AI-powered programs that can think and transact without human input-can unlock an e-commerce world in Ethereum due to a forgotten HTTP web standard that has recently begun to be leveraged with blockchain.
The dormant http 402 “required payment” status – defined around 30 years ago – with the Ethereum Improvement Profosal 3009, gives AI agents to make Stablecoin transfers without human intervention, the Ethereum Foundation Says On Wednesday, sharing a “guest thread” written by members of the coinbase development team Kevin Leffew and Lincoln Murr.
The pair said autonomous agents could be Ethereum’s “largest power users” in the X Post. Coinbase already has implemented HTTP 402 through the “X402 Payment Protocol,” according to its Github account.
Moving can be a change because Ai agents Can now access funds to pay for services, removing the need for human intervention In managing calls, storage, or calculation.
It can enable everything from self-driving taxis that cover their own costs of AI models that generate content with demand and apps that automatically use stablecoins to store data permanently, the pair said.
In a limited way, AI agents already have Trading Crypto By examining market data, the implementation of the purchase or sale of orders and optimizing portfolios in real time without human intervention.
As simple as a vending machine
Leffew and Murr compare the process to a vending machine, explaining that You have an agent Receiving a request to HTTP 402, signing a transaction, and making payment to get the response.
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It is important that the API turns into a service -conscious service, they said.
“A ride of the trip. Like a vending machine. No accounts required.”
Ethereum is the best fit for http 402
Leffew and Murr said Ethereum’s unreliable layer This is a good blockchain for implementation of HTTP 402, which has noticed that invoices and disputes of chargebacks are better than traditional processes.
“They need atom payments, policies that can be programmed, and composable wallets. Ethereum and stablecoins give them exactly.”
AI agents have been —Leverage by HTTP 402, EIP 3009
Experting those who have developed at HTTP 402, the Coinbase workers Says, pointing to hyperbolic labs enforces it with the large language model and prodia lab to produce video media images and content.
“The magic of the X402 is not the only agents who can pay, it can be the autonomy of chain services throughout the economic loops,” concludes Leffew and Murr.
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