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

Source: https://xcancel.com/ethereum/status/1955673870998143383
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/ethereum-HTTP-402-Payment-Required-could-unlock-agentic-commerce-on-Ethereum?index=0x689d89dbc790626102f6315935e5e23a3a4e26a80c5e2d8b54fca8b112154c1db0f81091
Submitted by misha on 2025-08-14 UTC, 1 upvote, 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. 🧵