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402 Payment Required
The status code nobody implemented for twenty-five years is suddenly the most interesting one on the internet.
HTTP 402 sat reserved in the spec since 1997, waiting for a customer that wasn't a person. Agents are what finally made it necessary. One evening during SF Tech Week, we're getting the people building that layer in one room.
Jordan Liu, founder and CEO of AIsa, on what changes when software becomes the buyer — followed by a live demo, open Q&A, and drinks.
The demo — an agent hits a paywalled endpoint, gets a 402 back with payment instructions, settles in USDC through Circle Nanopayments, retries with proof of payment, gets its data. No account, no invoice, no human. Then the same thing across a fleet in parallel, with per-agent budget caps enforced by the network rather than by hope.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
