What HTTP did for information, x402 will do for payments. 🪨 Let’s dive into how StakeStone 2.0 makes it real — where AI agents can pay, earn, and settle value natively. 🧵 #StakeStone #x402 #MachineFi #DeFi #AI

Today’s web lets machines read and write — but not pay. APIs can exchange data not value. Every transaction still relies on human accounts, custodians, or batch settlements. The result? The internet of information is global. The internet of value isn’t.

x402 extends the HTTP protocol with a new native verb: 402 Payment Required A payment instruction embedded directly into HTTP. Machines can now transfer value autonomously: AI → AI, device → service, model → API.

StakeStone 2.0 integrates x402 and AP2 inside its Intelligence Layer, turning payments into machine logic. Through AP2, agents generate payment intents — programmable instructions for value transfer. x402 then executes those intents, verifying authorization and completing settlement, on-chain or through facilitator nodes. Every payment becomes an API call: autonomous and verifiable. This is how finance becomes machine-native.

Why now? Because the stack is finally ready: • Stablecoins → internet-native money • Rollups → near-zero-cost micropayments • AP2 → agent identity & authorization • x402 → the transport layer for value Together, they form the backbone of the Autonomous Economy — a world where machines transact freely.

The next era of finance won’t be served, it will self-operate. StakeStone’s Intelligence Layer bridges human and machine economies, where AI, code, and capital flow on the same financial rails. This is the foundation of the autonomous economy — a world where money, logic, and intelligence flow as one.