The x402 story is a familiar one. Kubernetes was originally incubated by Google. Thirteen months later, it moved to the Linux Foundation. That was 2014 and 2015. Today, 82% of container users are running Kubernetes in production. Between now and then, Kubernetes transformed cloud infra that the vast majority of companies building at the frontier depend on. x402 is following a similar path. In 2025, it was incubated at Coinbase. This July, fourteen months after it was initially developed, it was handed over to the Linux Foundation's stewardship. This month, 75-million transactions have taken place on x402 payment rails. Full stop. All of the frontier players in tech are evaluating x402, writing about it, or including it in their stack: - Stripe - Ramp - AWS - OpenAI I'm excited to look back in 10 years and see how this story ends.