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About this event
The idea of services exchanging value across organizational boundaries without pre-negotiated contracts or centralized intermediaries is not new. Service Oriented Architecture promised exactly this in the early days of distributed computing. It was the right design philosophy. But it stalled at the inter-organizational level because one problem was never solved: how do two services that have never met pay each other
The token economy of 2017 tried to answer a related question. If decentralized services were coming, how would they be funded and consumed? The ICO model offered a vision: token-based access to real utility. But the infrastructure to deliver that utility did not exist yet. Speculation filled the gap that real service consumption should have occupied. The model collapsed under the weight of promises it could not keep.
x402 changes both of these stories at once. By making payment native to the HTTP request itself, it gives services the ability to discover, consume, and settle with each other in real time, with no prior relationship, no pre-negotiated contract, and no human-shaped financial plumbing at every step. The decentralized service economy that SOA envisioned and the token economy tried to fund now has the infrastructure to actually run.
This session explores what that means for how we design, deploy, and monetize services in an agentic world, and why the settlement layer underneath it all is the most important architectural decision organizations will make in the next three years.
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Delivering on the promise of blockchain technology, leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software to build an inclusive ecosystem.
