“The key point of X402 is scaling micropayments and removing human intervention in payments. The upcoming AI economy needs AI agents to create and transact with each other - and that can only be powered through X402.” - @0xThiru, Developer Relations at @MetisL2 & @LazAINetwork At Verifying Intelligence, the star of @EFDevcon - Metis & LazAI DevRel Thiru - explained how the future economy will not rely on humans manually approving transactions. Autonomous agents will negotiate, compute, and transact continuously, at machine speed and in machine-sized payments. Traditional payment rails cannot support this - they are slow, expensive, and built around human-triggered actions - which is where x402 comes in. x402 introduces a protocol model where payments are: • programmatic and initiated by agents rather than humans, • extremely low-cost and high-frequency (true micropayments), • peer-to-peer between AI agents without intermediaries. This enables autonomous systems to exchange value for compute, data, model access, or service execution in real time. Agent-to-agent commerce becomes feasible, allowing AI systems to operate economically without human approval loops. This is the foundation required to build a functional machine economy rather than a human-mediated one. X402 aligns payment structure with the operational nature of AI. Full panel coming soon to @HouseofZK.