Coinbase Incubated x402 Protocol ra mắt Cửa hàng AI Agent - Agent.market

The Mars Finance report states that x402 protocol, incubated by Coinbase, has launched Agent.market, a unified platform positioned as an “AI Agent App Store” to centrally showcase and connect various tools and services built on the protocol. According to the announcement, Agent.market initially covers seven categories: reasoning, data, media, search, social, infrastructure, and trading, integrating service providers such as OpenAI, Bloomberg, CoinGecko, LinkedIn, X, and AWS Lambda, with permissionless access support. Erik Reppel, Engineering Lead at Coinbase Developer Platform, stated that the platform is essentially an “app store for agents.” Currently, there are approximately 69,000 active agents on the x402 network, having completed over 165 million transactions totaling $50 million in volume. Most services on Agent.market operate on a pay-per-use model, with some charging an “agentic premium” to AI agents, though subscription plans can reduce costs for high-frequency usage scenarios. Meanwhile, the “agent economy” built on x402 is lowering customer acquisition and integration costs for businesses, unlocking potential demand previously constrained by API key, subscription, and micropayment mechanisms. The x402 protocol is named after the HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code and enables websites, APIs, and AI agents to perform instant micropayments via blockchain and traditional payment channels. The protocol is governed as an open standard by the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation and is supported by over 20 technology and crypto institutions including Cloudflare, Stripe, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Visa.