<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>X402 on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/x402/</link><description>Recent content in X402 on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:01:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/x402/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>TypeSafe's Jev Claims 100x Speedup; Google Ships Voice Models; Pay-Per-Crawl Goes Live</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-16-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-16-ai/</guid><description>TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth with Jev, a System One model claiming two orders of magnitude speedup on decision tasks with calibrated probabilities and no hallucination. Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.5 Transcribe for real-time voice apps. A developer&amp;rsquo;s x402 pay-per-crawl system settled five testnet payments, including one from Claude Code. IBM Research open-sourced a consistency diagnostic needing just one trace. Meta launched the Meta One subscription bundling AI compute. The day&amp;rsquo;s news also covers the Matthew Effect in RL training and a running list of dead AI startups.</description></item><item><title>Liquid Network Freezes After $320M Hack; Solana's Agent Micropayment Test Hits 1M/sec</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:21:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/</guid><description>The Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network went dark over the weekend after roughly 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn by purported white-hat hackers using the SideSwap Peg-out Authorization Key - while Liquid insists that key itself was not compromised. Blockstream paused the network and exchanges froze LBTC deposits. Meanwhile, Solana&amp;rsquo;s new Payment Channels primitive for AI agent micropayments hit a claimed 1 million payments per second in benchmarking, with Alibaba Cloud live on day one. Coinbase is filing SEC and CFTC registrations to bring single stock perpetual futures onshore, BitGo is acquiring NYDIG&amp;rsquo;s trading arm for $42.5M, and Harmony announced it is shutting down its L1 blockchain entirely. Bitcoin ETFs added $987M in weekly inflows.</description></item><item><title>Fogo halts mainnet after $3M token exploit; Solana ETFs hit $1B</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-crypto/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:12:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-crypto/</guid><description>Fogo&amp;rsquo;s Layer 1 blockchain halted mainnet after an attacker drained 400M FOGO tokens worth ~$3M - roughly 10% of the circulating supply - ending the network&amp;rsquo;s claim of 100% uptime since its January launch. The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF crossed $1B AUM in just 10 months, holding more than half of all Solana ETF assets, while Bybit is launching 24/7 perpetual options on SpaceX and Nvidia starting September 17. Meanwhile, x402 processed 169M payments in its first year with native integrations from AWS, CloudFront, Cloudflare, and Google, and Hyperliquid Strategies disclosed a $1.9B HYPE treasury with zero debt.</description></item><item><title>Ethereum's Fast Blocks, Visa's Korean Stablecoin Push, and the Death of Microtransaction Fees</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/</guid><description>Ethereum&amp;rsquo;s protocol developers outlined concrete timelines for reducing block times from 12 seconds to under 1 second within two hard forks, directly cutting idle capital and settlement costs for DeFi applications. Shinhan Financial Group signed with Visa to build Korea-specific stablecoin infrastructure, combining banking, card, and payment rails into a single institutional deployment. Meanwhile, EIP-8130 emerged as the preferred account abstraction path for EVM rollups, with Base targeting a 2x per-transaction cost reduction in its upcoming Cobalt upgrade.</description></item></channel></rss>