The Solana Foundation, a non-profit organization behind the Solana blockchain, has joined the open payment network, x402 Foundation, of the Linux Foundation. The other participants of the newly developed x402Foundation include the global leaders like Visa, Stripe, Shopify, Microsoft, Mastercard, Google, Fiserv, Coinbase, Cloudflare, Circle, American Express, and Amazon. As per Solana’s official announcement, the development denotes a landmark in the internet-native payments’ evolution. Hence, the move integrates financial transfers into web3 interactions.
Solana Advances Agentic Finance with Support for x402 Foundation in Partnership with Market Giants
Solana has officially adopted the Linux Foundation’s x402 Foundation for seamless payment integration. As an early x402 adopter, Solana has already led 65% of the transfer volume this year. This suggests its key role in advancing agentic finance. The Linux Foundation announced the initiative at the MCP Dev Summit North America, confirming that the x402 foundation is poised to provide governance for it.
Set to enable seamless payments just like data exchange, x402 lets AI agents, applications, and APIs transfer value directly through HTP. While discussing this, the Linux Foundation’s CEO, Jim Zemlin, mentioned, “The x402 Foundation will create an open, community-governed home to develop these capabilities in the open.” In this respect, the entities like Visa, Polygon Labs, KakaoPay, and Adyen are collaborating to bolster the standard.
Bolstering Innovation in Stablecoin-Led Agentic Finance
Apart from that, Solana Foundation’s Head of AI Growth, Rishin Sharma, stated, “We’re eager to support the x402 Foundation to build the future of agentic payments and onboard more developers, merchants, and agents to pay-per-request models with stablecoins. Additionally, the project represents the next move in guaranteeing community-led development, interoperability, and transparency. It also emphasizes the significance of next-gen open standards when it comes to agentic commerce.
According to Solana Foundation, the collaboration with other market leaders indicates a pivotal move in advancing digital payments. As Shopify, Mastercard, and Visa have shown commitment to backing interoperable and open standards, the x402 attempts to play the role of the spine of the rapidly growing agent-native commerce. Overall, with Solana leading innovation and transfer volume, the x402 underscores a crucial step toward establishing open financial infrastructure to push forward digital age.
