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x402 hit 169m transactions in year one and 90% settle on base in USDC. coinbase runs the facilitator that verifies every payment AND owns the chain that clears it. now cloudflare, which sits on 20-30% of global internet traffic, ships native x402 as an edge feature. developers don't write solidity, they write HTTP. the blockchain is invisible. coinbase built a toll booth on the agentic internet and convinced cloudflare to route traffic through it for free. crypto wins by disappearing. ...