# @ethereum: HTTP 402 Payment Required could unlock agentic commerce on Ethereum

Source: https://x.com/ethereum/status/1955673870998143383
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ethereum-HTTP-402-Payment-Required-could-unlock-agentic-commerce-on-Ethereum?index=0x689cc39e4d69b4a709ffd77573085fbbf3916cb26c894d296bf463fbb4418d9721248b0f
Submitted by pedrovilela.eth on 2025-08-13 UTC, 4 upvotes, 0 comments

0/ Autonomous agents are about to become Ethereum’s biggest power users.

Guest thread from @kleffew94 and @MurrLincoln on how a long-forgotten HTTP status code, ‘402 Payment Required’ could unlock a new frontier for Ethereum: agentic commerce. 🧵