The x402 Foundation — the Linux Foundation body stewarding the x402 machine-payment protocol — has 40 member organizations as of its July 14, 2026 operational launch. Every article covers the announcement; nobody published the full roster as infrastructure intelligence. So here it is: all 40, by tier, with what each heavy hitter structurally adds. April 2, 2026: intent to launch at the MCP Dev Summit ("4/02 Day"). Coinbase contributes x402 to the Linux Foundation. 22 founding members. Coinbase, Cloudflare, and Stripe become co-founders with elevated governance roles. July 14, 2026: operational launch. 40 member organizations. Adyen, Amazon Web Services, American Express, Circle, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv, Google, Mastercard, Monad Foundation, MoonPay, Ripple, Shopify, Solana Foundation, Stellar Development Foundation, Stripe, Visa. What the key ones add: the card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Amex) stretch the spec to "traditional cards to stablecoins" — this is a web-payments rail now, not a crypto rail. Ripple brings XRP + RLUSD settlement on the XRP Ledger. Stellar brings a second non-EVM settlement path. Circle issues USDC, the asset doing essentially all current volume. AWS and Google bring cloud scale (both have exec quotes in the launch release). Aleo, Fireblocks, Galaxia Moneytree, Hecto Financial, Injective, KakaoPay, Kite AI, LayerZero Labs, Merit Systems, NEAR Foundation, Orthogonal, Polygon Labs, Quant Network, SKALE, t54 labs, utexo, World Liberty Financial, zerohash. BSV Association, Cardano Foundation, Casper, Japanese Contents Blockchain Initiative, OMA3. Membership is governance, not volume. Per an ecosystem tracker's corrected August 2026 figures, USDC accounts for roughly 99.99% of trailing-90-day agentic transfer volume. Ripple and Stellar diluted the USDC monoculture at the governance layer; the settlement asset barely moved. The direction matters more than the decimal: governance diversified faster than volume. x402.org's dashboard (read Septe
I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially "Triumph of the Nerds". He will be missed. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949438 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
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I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel art LLMs come for mathematics So many more accidental cyberattacks The vulnapocalypse comes for Datasette What I'm using right now My software releases this month 2026 in LLMs (so far) Here's a copy of the August newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy! Tags: newsletter
Following the closure of Phil Tippett’s studio, hundreds of behind the scenes files from The Matrix, Jurassic Park and more have been uploaded to the Internet Archive
The Bahrain Grand Prix is streaming for free on Apple TV this weekend, subscription not required. Rather amusingly, the location of the Bahrain Grand Prix is actually in Sepang, Malaysia. Usually, F1 on Apple TV requires a paid subscription. But this weekend, it’s free for everyone to tune in. You can catch up on qualifying in preparation to stream the live race tonight, which kicks off at 3 AM Eastern Time. more…
It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along with plenty of other popular products. It’s all to hype up October Prime Day, which starts October 6th at 3AM ET and lasts through 3AM ET on the 8th if you’re on the East Coast (12AM PT). October Prime Day offers a glimpse of deals that will likely be available again during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. So, with the holiday shopping season officially underway, you can get some of your shopping out of the way before things get busier as we approach the holidays. The most recent update to this post on October 3rd added a couple of Bose speakers, building on what was added on October 1st (a couple of Belkin deals, plus a discount on a capable 1440p USB-C monitor). This post will be updated ahead of October 6th as new deals become available. Bose SoundLink Plus While the Max is an awesome, powerful speaker, the Plus packs a ton of performance into a more portable form factor. It has an IP67 rating, and it’s easy to clean, too. Read our review. Where to Buy: $269 $179 at Amazon $269 $179 at Best Buy $269 $179 at Bose Bose SoundLink Max Bose’s SoundLink Max improves on the smaller Flex with true stereo sound — and very powerful sound at that. It’s got a removable handle for easy transport, and there’s an aux input for playing audio when you want to listen at a higher quality than what Bluetooth can deliver. Read our review. Where to Buy: $399 $279 at Amazon $399 $279 at Best Buy $399 $279 at Bose Belkin Qi2.2 25W 2-in-1 foldable charging dock Slap a recent iPhone onto this charging pad and it’ll charge at fast 25W speeds. It can also charge AirPods, and includes a cord and wall adapter. Where to Buy: $60 $42.99 at Amazon $100 $75 at Amazon (w/ Apple Watch support) Belkin Charging Case for Nintendo Switch 2 The case features an integrated power bank and a small pocket to stow an AirTag (or other similarly sized Bluetooth tracker). Where to Buy: $69.99 $59.
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My colleague Cameron Faulkner models a pair of Xreal glasses. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Why am I suddenly buying up every 3D Blu-ray I can find after 3D became one of the biggest tech flops of all time? The technology's finally ready for 3D movies to shine, more than 15 years since James Cameron's Avatar wowed me on the big screen and went on to become the highest-grossing film worldwide. Video glasses are giving me the experience I've always desired. I've always loved 3D movies, but viewing them was awkward. Walking into a movie theater with a pair of polarized glasses, I would only get half the resolution and roughly half the brightness, since those glasses had to split one reflected image between my two eyes. Almost every … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Museum: Rex's Dino Store Located just before the turnstiles in the Grand Army Plaza subway station at the north end of Brooklyn's Prospect Park is this former newsstand which is now operated by a dinosaur. The density of dinosaur puns is exceptional . Tags: art , new-york
A massive study of over 85 million U.S. medical records has confirmed that childhood vaccinations against chickenpox lowers your risk of shingles. Who could have known this?
Apple TV today released the second season of its animated fantasy adventure series “The Sisters Grimm,” with all six new episodes now available to stream. Here are the details. more…
Many of Netflix's biggest critically acclaimed hits have been the products of its multiyear production deals with noted directors like David Fincher and Shawn Levy. In the past few weeks, though, the streamer has brought some of those partnerships to an end in a way that feels indicative of a larger strategic shift. With rival studios Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on the verge of a megamerger that will reshape the entertainment landscape, Netflix is clearly thinking about how it can continue to hold its own in the ongoing streaming wars. But as the company charts its path forward, its plan to court subscribers might not put so much em … Read the full story at The Verge.
Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reported by The Desk. The feature was announced last year and offered a day pass, a weekend pass, and a week-long pass option to be able to watch channels like ESPN and CNN without a full-month cable subscription. But soon after it launched, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery sued Sling TV over Sling Pass, though a federal judge ruled against Disney in its request for a preliminary injunction to block the feature. "Sling was built to give our customers the ultimate control over their entertainme … Read the full story at The Verge.