The “402 Payment Required” status code was defined in HTTP/1.1 RFC 2616 in 1999, envisioned as a native web-level payment mechanism. But the infrastructure to make it work — instant settlement and ...

While most of the crypto market is still trying to recover from the brutal correction earlier in October, a new narrative has ...

Coinbase’s experimental x402 payments protocol, designed to let AI agents and humans pay directly in stablecoins over the ...

How does the Internet keep running? A close-knit community of engineers has been developing and supporting the protocols that support it for more than forty years. During that time, new Internet ...

The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today. Today’s ...

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers. It’s no surprise that evolving the vast protocol ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced last week that it has chosen an Internet-based protocol for electronic data exchange with thousands of its national and global suppliers. Wal-Mart said that the use of ...