x402 stablecoin payments see 152% jump in monthly active senders to 43,100

Coinbase's HTTP-native payment protocol more than doubled its active user base in 30 days, with Base doing most of the heavy lifting The internet has had a “Payment Required” error code since the 1990s. For most of that time, almost nothing used it. That is changing quickly. Over the past 30 days, the number of active senders on x402, the stablecoin payment protocol built on that dormant code, rose 152% to 43,100. That means the user base more than doubled in a single month. The growth matters because x402 is not designed mainly for people. It targets software, especially AI agents that need to pay for data, compute, and services without a human stepping in each time. The 43,100 figure reflects activity as of mid-October 2026.

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