BlockBeats News, December 23, Recently, HTX Ventures, the global investment arm of Huobi HTX, released its latest research report titled "Pulse in the Cold Wave: Exploring Web3's Next Technical Inflection Point through x402 and ERC-8004." The report believes that as AI Agents and automation systems rise, machines are gradually becoming important users of the Internet, a change that will reshape Web3's payment, identity, and collaboration infrastructure.HTX Ventures focused on analyzing two technological upgrades, x402 and ERC-8004: x402 introduces payments at the protocol layer, enabling machines to autonomously settle transactions; ERC-8004, on the other hand, provides a verifiable execution and reputation mechanism for machine collaboration. HTX Ventures believes that together, they form the minimum infrastructure loop required for the machine economy or could be a significant signal for the next stage of Web3's technological evolution.

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