Cardano joins Solana, XRP Ledger in race to power AI agent payments

The official x402 kit now includes Cardano tools for apps and AI agents to pay with ADA and other network tokens, though the facilitator has so far only been tested on pre-production.

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- Cardano has been added to the official x402 software kit, allowing developers to build apps and AI agents that pay for online services with ADA or Cardano-issued tokens.

- The x402 standard enables automated, pay-per-use transactions within internet requests, eliminating the need for accounts, card details or subscriptions.

- Cardano’s TypeScript release has completed a transaction on a preproduction network, but it has not yet operated on mainnet or demonstrated commercial payments at scale.

Cardano has been added to the official x402 software kit, giving developers the code needed to let an app or AI agent pay for an online service using ADA or tokens issued on the network.

x402 turns the web’s largely unused “402 Payment Required” response into a checkout built directly into an internet request. A service sends back its price and payment instructions, the agent signs a payment and receives the ...