Plain Strata: A Name and a Wallet
This week, software agents got the two things they need to do business on their own: a way to pay, and a name that means something. Both arrived at real scale, backed by real institutions, in the same handful of days. The payment side: on July 14, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation, with 40 members including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google, and Coinbase steering a payment standard that already carries 75 million machine-to-machine payments a month. The identity side: BNB Chain crossed 200,000 AI agents carrying a permanent registered identity under a standard called ERC-8004…
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