Good morning & happy Tuesday! Today, all eyes are on FinTech giant Stripe, which just turned HTTP 402 into a cash register for AI Agents (what it's all about & why it's huge + bonus dives into Stripe & the future of payments for the machine economy), and Grab that acquired a US WealthTech Stash for pennies on the dollar, making both sides happy (unpacking the latest fintech M&A, what it tells us & what to expect next). So let's jump straight into the finnovative stuff '' HTTP 402 - 'Payment Required' - has been sitting dormant in the web's architecture since 1997, reserved for a future where the internet would need native payment rails. Stripe, integrating the x402 protocol developed by Coinbase COIN 0.00%' , just activated it.
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