40 Finance and Tech Giants Unite to Standardize Agentic Payments

The x402 protocol, an open standard designed to support agentic payments, has a new open-governance body that includes 40 organizations. The launch of the x402 Foundation was announced by the Linux Foundation in a Tuesday (July 14) press release . The x402 Foundation is dedicated to building an open, vendor-neutral payment standard over HTTP and standardizing internet-native payments for AI agents and applications, according to the release.