Block brings Bitcoin Lightning payments to x402 for AI agents
- —Block added Bitcoin Lightning support to the open x402 payment protocol
- —The x402 Foundation launched in April under the Linux Foundation
- —Backers include Google, Microsoft, AWS, Coinbase and the Solana Foundation
- —Lightning was chosen for low-cost, high-volume AI agent payments
Why it matters: It expands Bitcoin's use in AI-agent payments and strengthens Lightning's role in agentic commerce.
Source: Cryptonews.net