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Stop Patching HTTP — Agents Don't Need a Payment Protocol, They Need a Native Network

x402 adds payment headers to HTTP — solving one problem while ignoring discovery, trust, liveness, and accountability. Nostr + Lightning starts from a protocol built for signed, relayed, permissionless agent communication, where payment is just one layer of a complete network. This piece compares the two approaches across the five problems every autonomous agent must solve.

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