erik.eth 🛡

Building something new.
Prev head of eng @CoinbaseDev, @ourzora
Creator of

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

It’s been incredible to see x402 go viral this week!

For anyone new, welcome to the movement.

I designed x402 to be the HTTP of money: a universally accepted, neutral, core primitive to help make the internet ready for the AI era.

I can’t wait to see what people build 🛠️

[Kyle Daigle @kdaigle]

@programmer I raising money for a 25 disc CD changer

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

every github repo being backed by a CD would actually explain a lot about github's performance & uptime

[GitHub @github]

We heard you. And we agree.

In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM.

Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.

Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real.

Order yours today.
https://t.co/z041pdMH7h

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

This is both cool and also wtf.
the people want better site performance and uptime

[GitHub @github]

We heard you. And we agree.

In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM.

Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.

Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real.

Order yours today.
https://t.co/z041pdMH7h

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

Charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare. In stablecoins. Over the x402 protocol.

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

It feels like the era of minimalism is ending. return to maximalism.

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

Agents disconnect you from your users. Ads won't work the same in the age of ai. x402 solves this.

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol. https://t.co/pvICtEIixj

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Happy Canada day 🇨🇦

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

Huge

[Apify @apify]

Until today, agents could buy about 2,000 tools through x402.

We just 10x'd that to 20,000+ 🚀

In partnership with @coinbase, we’re launching x402 support to give autonomous agents access to the largest marketplace of web automation tools.

No account, API keys, or human in the loop.

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

@wowbestie the best era of the internet

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

@pouriaa possible. but also attempted export controls on intelligence feels inevitable in retrospect. If the government tried it with encryption they'd try it with AI.

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

Fable is interesting because it seems we've found "maximum allowable intelligence"

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

Enable x402 on your AWS hosted website 👀

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot traffic is growing 300% year over year. Publishers and content owners are forced to either block all bots or allow unrestricted access.

[Ash @Must_be_Ash]

it’s one thing to use Claude to plan your trip

it’s another thing to have it actually book the room

Just add Base and Travala MCP then ask for what you need. It'll find a hotel, book it and pay with x402

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

@MurrLincoln Good post

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

@GuiBibeau Not quite, but maybe the next one

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

Seems like a great time to start an ai lab in Canada

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

Are you polyagentist or monoagentist?

Polyagentist: believe people will interact with many agents

Monoagentist: believe people will interact primarily with a single agent

[ETHConf @ethconf]

"It's when you give your agent access to secrets, to proprietary data, to the things that are hidden because they're valuable. That's when your agent becomes as interesting as possible."

@programmer of x402 with @yugacohler of @CoinbaseDev on the Main Stage at ETHConf.

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

Eavesdrop on our 1:1

[Yuga Cohler @yugacohler]

I'll be at @ETHConf tomorrow, speaking on agentic payments, x402, and more! With my friend and former boss @programmer.

I'll be around all day, so please reach out if you want to chat.

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

@MurrLincoln Knows ball is top of my resume

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

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