Block has joined the x402 Foundation, an open standard for agentic payments, to help build payment rails enabling people, businesses, and agents to pay and receive money. The company has contributed Bitcoin Lightning payments to the effort, describing the network as purpose-built for instant, low-cost, high-volume transactions that agentic commerce is expected to depend on. Block shared a link with further details but the post itself provides no additional figures or technical specifics.

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  1. UpdateBlock joins x402 Foundation and contributes Bitcoin Lightning for AI-agent payments3 acc.
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  • @jackFirst reportOn X ↗

    lightning on x402 https://t.co/M2oE3xz9tE

  • @BitcoinNewsCom Bitcoin NewsOn X ↗

    BLOCK JOINS x402 FOUNDATION, BRINGS BITCOIN LIGHTNING TO AI AGENT PAYMENTS Block has joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning support to the open payment standard for AI agents. x402 embeds payments directly into HTTP, allowing AI agents to autonomously pay…

  • @wublockchain12 吴说区块链On X ↗

    吴说获悉，Block 宣布加入 x402 Foundation，该基金会致力于推动面向 AI Agent 支付的开放标准。Block 还向 x402 贡献了 Bitcoin Lightning 支付能力，希望为个人、企业和 AI Agent 之间的收付款提供基础设施；Block 表示，Lightning 适用于即时、低成本和高频支付场景，可用于支持 Agentic…

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