When the Internet is Revalued: Interpretation of x402

[Plain Language Guide] Why have small payments in the internet age collectively failed? Because the friction is too great, the costs are too high, and users are too frustrated. Now, the x402 protocol has emerged: it resurrects the HTTP 402 status code that has been dormant for 27 years, combines it with stablecoins, and creates a machine payment track with zero account opening, instant settlement, and minimal costs.

In the future, SaaS will abandon crude subscriptions and switch to a "low base price + pay-per-piece/per-session x402 sudden payment," solving 50% of license waste with one click; content creators will also be able to charge AI crawlers directly. Advertising hegemony will be squeezed by precise payments, and small payments will no longer be a joke but the underlying bloodline of a trillion-level M2M economy. This time, it has really returned.

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