Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says the network is on the cusp of a significant shift, reacting to news that an HTTP-402–based payments standard—known as “x402”—is being brought to Cardano and integrated with Masumi, an agent-to-agent protocol built atop the chain. “This is very big for Cardano,” Hoskinson wrote on X on October 27, in response to the demo announcement.

The catalyst is a proof-of-concept published by Masumi cofounder Patrick Tobler showing a live x402 “pay-to-access” flow that ends in an on-chain action: a memecoin mint on Cardano. Tobler framed it as a milestone en route to standardizing how autonomous agents and web services exchange value via APIs without log-ins or OAuth.

“x402 is coming to Cardano (and Masumi)! … The first x402 Proof-Of-Concept Memecoin Mint,” he

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