Camila Russo

couple of important corrections: MPP can be used by any chain! x402 also supports fiat! Assets - MPP supports crypto and fiat - x402 supports crypto and fiat Scale - MPP's sessions primitive lets agents authenticate once, set a spending limit, and settle later, batching payments across many interactions. Better for agent scale. - x402 is still largely per-request, although it’s moving toward prepaid flows Settlement - MPP can settle in any chain - x402 can settle in any chain What's better? right now looks like MPP has an advantage with its sessions primitive, but x402 is working on the same. so what other significant differences are there?

couple of important corrections: MPP can be used by any chain! x402 also supports fiat! Assets - MPP supports crypto and fiat - x402 supports crypto and fiat Scale - MPP's sessions primitive lets agents authenticate once, set a spending limit, and settle later, batching payments across many interactions. Better for agent scale. - x402 is still largely per-request, although it’s moving toward prepaid flows Settlement - MPP can settle in any chain - x402 can settle in any chain What's better? right now looks like MPP has an advantage with its sessions primitive, but x402 is working on the same. so what other significant differences are there?

couple of important corrections: MPP can be used by any chain! x402 also supports fiat! Assets - MPP supports crypto and fiat - x402 supports crypto and fiat Scale - MPP's sessions primitive lets agents authenticate once, set a spending limit, and settle later, batching payments across many interactions. Better for agent scale. - x402 is still largely per-request, although it’s moving toward prepaid flows Settlement - MPP can settle in any chain - x402 can settle in any chain What's better? right now looks like MPP has an advantage with its sessions primitive, but x402 is working on the same. so what other significant differences are there?

couple of important corrections: MPP can be used by any chain! x402 also supports fiat! Assets - MPP supports crypto and fiat - x402 supports crypto and fiat Scale - MPP's sessions primitive lets agents authenticate once, set a spending limit, and settle later, batching payments across many interactions. Better for agent scale. - x402 is still largely per-request, although it’s moving toward prepaid flows Settlement - MPP can settle in any chain - x402 can settle in any chain What's better? right now looks like MPP has an advantage with its sessions primitive, but x402 is working on the same. so what other significant differences are there?

Two protocols are racing to become the internet's payments layer: x402 backed by Coinbase Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) launched today by Stripe and Tempo. How are they different? Short answer: x402 is more permissionless. MPP is more payments-optimized. Long answer: Assets - MPP accepts stablecoins on Tempo, plus fiat - x402 accepts all ERC20s, but no fiat. Scale - MPP's sessions primitive lets agents authenticate once, set a spending limit, and settle later, batching payments across many interactions. Better for agent scale. - x402 is still largely per-request, although it’s moving toward prepaid flows Settlement - MPP requires Tempo and Stripe. - x402 permissionless, chain agnostic What's better? imo, if MPP settled on any chain, it would be a clear winner. But it doesn't. And that's a huge drawback esp since it's unclear how decentralized and permissionless Tempo actually is.

This VF photo and article ("Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously") feel so off to me and I was trying to figure out why. I think it's because it feels like something that was written in the 2018 era of crypto -- where belief was almost everything the industry had going for it. blockchains and tokens were live but mostly just to gamble with. so a photoshoot that portrays crypto people as this excentric rag tag group who somehow still hang on to their weird ideals even as prices crash made sense back then. But not today.