What You Need To Know About x402 And How It Impacts Payments · Talking Tokens Podcast / YouTube
Known for
Created x402; left Coinbase to start a company, May 2026.
Why chosen
He connects machine-learning infrastructure with money that moves at internet speed. He joined Coinbase as an ML platform engineer in 2018 and later ran engineering at a startup. Back at Coinbase in 2025 as Head of Engineering for the Developer Platform, he co-authored x402, the open protocol that revived HTTP's long-dormant "402 Payment Required" so apps and AI agents can pay in stablecoins, launched in May 2025. In May 2026 he left to start a company of his own. He gave a forgotten status code a job.