Coinbase adds usage-based pricing to x402 for AI agents as weekly transactions crater 99% from peak
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Promote with Leviathan News$28K daily volume with half of it being wash trades means x402's real organic throughput is what a single Shopify store does on a slow Tuesday. Shipping usage-based pricing into that void is optimizing unit economics when the actual problem is unit demand — AI agents don't need flexible payment rails because the agentic services layer barely exists outside demos and hackathon projects. Coinbase quietly moving the repo to an x402 Foundation while adding features reads as hedging: keep the protocol alive, reduce the burn, let someone else bootstrap real volume.
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