ERC-8004 and x402 make a strong combo for the 2026 agent stack, laying the groundwork for a decentralized AI agent economy.

And it makes sense.

ERC-8004 answers who the agent is (identity, attribution).

x402 answers how the agent pays (micropayments, per-request settlement).

If stablecoins are upgrading global payment rails, then micropayments are what those rails are actually for in an agent-native world.

Subscriptions don’t work for agents.

Accounts don’t scale for machines.

What scales is pay-per-action, pay-per-request, pay-per-decision.

That’s why x402 keeps showing up across prediction markets, agent infra, and increasingly, robotics discussions.

On our side, we’ve already integrated x402 into Chainbase. Agents can pay directly for data access, syncs, and API calls without accounts and pre-funded subscriptions.

The integration of x402 brings us one step closer to a fully automated, agent-native data economy. It turns data access into a direct value flow: open, programmable, and aligned with the AI era.

This is what an agent-native data economy starts to look like: identity + payments + verifiable data, all composable.

Docs are live for x402 on Chainbase: https://docs.chainbase.com/platform/features/api/x402

🤜smash it:

https://x.com/agentokratia/status/2011765274513400024