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Solana clears 76% of all x402 transactions, 23.2 million in four weeks, but the protocol settles in stablecoins rather than SOL, leaving native token demand the open question.
Agents can settle micropayments in XRP or RLUSD, so millions of transactions are weak evidence of sustained demand to buy and hold XRP.
75 million transactions at roughly $0.32 apiece over 30 days show the plumbing works, but a July study found only $187K of that flows to identifiable independent services, putting the real adoption…
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, AWS and Cloudflare all in the premier tier, with Coinbase handing stewardship to a neutral foundation built around the dormant HTTP 402 code.
Developers can now charge directly for any webpage, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare, with settlement in stablecoins over the open x402 protocol, no payments stack required.
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