Cardano Added to x402 Software Development Kit for Agent Payments
The Cardano network has been integrated into the x402 protocol kit to facilitate pay-per-use transactions for software applications and AI agents.
Cardano was incorporated into the official x402 software development kit on September 21, enabling autonomous software and artificial intelligence agents to execute consumption-based payments using ADA and Cardano native tokens, as reported by CoinDesk.
The integration is built to support pay-per-use models where applications can pay directly for services or resources per request instead of using traditional subscription or billing systems. Central to the setup is the Cardano x402 facilitator component, detailed in the Cardano Foundation's GitHub repository, which implements the x402 version 2 scheme to verify and settle signed Cardano transactions.
According to repository documentation, the facilitator has successfully completed end-to-end transaction testing in a pre-production testing environment. However, the available data indicates that the payment flow has not yet been deployed or demonstrated on the Cardano mainnet.
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