x402 powered API links management console
Journal Entry
28 September 2025 • x402 is a new payment for request from coinbase and cloudflare
Corporations are going to have a hard time managing the payments layer for the requests, i.e the credits for the system. Propose a management console for x402 that allows a gateway / topping up credits etc otherwise how is the payment going to be done; it could also be used for devs to set the payment types that are allowed etc.
x402 lets services monetize APIs and digital content onchain, allowing clients, both human and machine, to programmatically pay for access without accounts, sessions, or complex authentication (Coinbase).
Key Insights
- [Market observation] - New tech stack released by coinbase; seems to have a number of early adopters mainly in the crypto space. It would essentially act like a proxy and wrap existing api links into a new link that is paid using x402. x402 could also allow for paid gated email access, i.e you want to send someone a email you need to pay this would prevent alot of spam and scam emails. (can essentially remove the public facing direct email and replace with a paid version)
- [User pain point] - This would allow for tracking and analytics ontop of the stack; which is a massive bonus as at the moment any dev looking to incorportate would need to write custom stack for this.
- [Competitive advantage] - Nothing currently exists in the market; this tech would also need to come in useful for payments companies in the future if adoption becomes wider.
Next Steps
- [Research action] There is an exiting 402 proxy similiar to what is decribed in the infant phase here https://x.com/positiveblue2/status/1924879803217543389 this is essentially the MVP for what was described above but needs to be improved with credit limits, users for corporations, etc. i.e the company might want to sponsor a set amount of users credits each month.
- [Validation step] We can also probably just piggy back of CDP for the initial prototype for MVP then potentially look to own the stack later on.
- [Prototype idea] The above x402 proxy would essentially become the MVP for this idea but it needs to be greatly expanded on. We can also build upon this to support multiple payment types, i.e stripe, single time payment via the blockchain, there also should be KYC / demographics which could be a key feature of this app as it can handle the user uploading the KYC a single time and not multiple for users. It also probably makes sense to have a single point of truth for this as alot of people probably dont want to KYC with each platform which supports x402.
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