Coinbase & Linux Foundation Debut X402: HTTP-Native Crypto Payment Standard

Coinbase and the Linux Foundation launched the X402 Foundation on April 2, 2026, a non-profit tasked with stewarding an open-source protocol that finally puts the 30-year-dormant HTTP 402 status code to work as the web’s native payment layer.The founding coalition includes Stripe, Cloudflare, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Mastercard, which means this is not a crypto-native experiment – it is a bid to …