Author: YQ, deep researcher in encryption infrastructure; Translation: xz@Golden Finance In 1994, Marc Andreessen made a significant mistake, which he later admitted: Netscape failed to embed payment functionality into the browser. Due to regulatory risks and the conservative attitude of financial institutions, Netscape’s collaboration with Visa and Microsoft’s partnership with MasterCard ultimately fell apart. This led to the internet’s default business model being dominated by advertising surveillance systems for thirty years—a trillion-dollar industry built on comprehensive behavioral tracking rather than direct value exchange. Today, AI agents are breaking this balance. Autonomous systems do not watch ads, cannot be psychologically profiled, and have no monetizable attention. Content publishers face a binary choice: either allow parasitic scraping that destroys creative motivation or establish direct payment mechanisms. The x402 protocol is precisely about activating the long-sealed "402 Payment Required" in the HTTP standard.

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