Cardano Enters the Race to Power AI Agent Payments

Cardano is stepping into a very specific corner of the AI economy: teaching software how to pay for things on the internet.The blockchain has been added to the official x402 software kit, giving developers the tools to build apps and AI agents that can pay for online services with ADA or tokens issued on the Cardano network.The idea behind x402 is almost deceptively simple. It takes the web’s largely ignored “402 Payment Required” response and turns it into a payment step embed