Payments on the web have long been fragmented and proprietary, shaped more by walled gardens than shared standards.
Even “402: Payment Required” never became more than a concept of what web-native payments could be.
x402 changed that by making web-native payments real for AI agents, APIs, and humans. If x402 is going to serve as common infrastructure for the internet, its long-term home matters too.
Today, the x402 Foundation is moving under the
@linuxfoundation.
A standard like x402 should not live with any one company. Under the Linux Foundation, x402 can be stewarded as shared, community-governed infrastructure, with the ambition of making online value transfer as native to the internet as email.