Brian Whippo
402 - Payment Required
#1about 3 minutes
The long history of the undefined 402 status code
The `402 Payment Required` HTTP status code has been reserved for future use for three decades, despite early attempts like CyberCash and JEPI to define a standard.
#2about 2 minutes
Recent attempts at web payment standardization
Modern efforts like the Payment Request API and Web Monetization have tried to address web payments but have not resulted in a universal standard for the 402 status code.
#3about 6 minutes
Understanding the first frontier of digital payments
The payments landscape has shifted dramatically, with digital methods like account-to-account transfers, digital wallets, and stablecoins now dominating e-commerce.
#4about 4 minutes
The new frontier of agentic and autonomous commerce
AI agents require new payment infrastructure, with autonomous agents needing atomic, programmable, and permissionless transactions with immediate settlement.
#5about 4 minutes
Current competing proposals for web payment protocols
In the absence of a standard, companies like Cloudflare and Coinbase are creating proprietary or divergent solutions like Pay per Crawl and X402 to handle machine-to-machine payments.
#6about 2 minutes
A call to action for a unified open payment standard
The industry needs to collaborate on a universal, open standard for web payments to support the future of autonomous commerce, rather than relying on fragmented solutions.
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