Opportunities in the x402 track Alpha lie hidden in the undercurrents of "micro-innovation."
I was stunned, and upon closer inspection, this is a question worth 2,000 U. Let's answer it with some trepidation:
1) x402 is essentially a protocol standard similar to HTTP. We cannot buy coins for HTTP, but companies built on HTTP like Google, Amazon, and Facebook have created a prosperous era for the internet.
The standard itself is not valuable, but the ecosystem infrastructure and application layer built around the standard will capture value beyond our imagination. This point undoubtedly applies to the future potential value of the x402 track.
2) In the web2 era under HTTP, we all witnessed that the beneficiaries were the giants who controlled the traffic entry and data. In contrast, x402 is just the beginning. Obviously, PING has already achieved a wave of success thanks to the narrative-creating MEME effect, but the short-term effect of MEME cannot last too long.
The x402 track upstream and downstream