I'm super excited to be here.

My name's Eric.

I'm the head of engineering at CoinMuse Developer Platform and the co-founder, creator.

I wrote X402.

So I'm here to talk to you all about an open standard for internet native payments.

And this is kind of the byline of X402.

And we'll get into each one of those bits, open standard, internet native, and payments.

And so roughly today I've got, we're going to talk about how the internet was designed

for humans and we're now entering an age of AI. We're going to talk about how the internet was designed for humans and we're now entering an age of AI.

We're going to talk about agenda commerce.

We're going to talk about open protocols.

We'll talk about X-402 of course and we'll close it out.

So a thing we don't realize is the internet was designed for humans to use.

Computers are kind of the backbone of the internet, but really the user has been a human for all of the history of the internet.

And so what actually was shipped? Like what is the internet is the thing people don't think about very much.

But the internet as we think about it, the consumer web,

is really HTML, HTTP, and the browser.

And that's what was shipped by CERN way back in the day.

And that's what enabled the internet revolution

is those three pieces of technology.

And what you notice is each one of those is a standard.

HTML is a standard way of declaring how to display information.

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