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janandonly 2 days ago

Why was Cloudflare rolling their own verion of the already existing L402 protocol?

The protocol: https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/l40...

An index of current use: https://l402index.com/

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lucideer 2 days ago | parent [-]

Is L402 an open standard? It doesn't appear to be.

X402 is an open standard backed by the Linux Foundation.

I'm honestly not the biggest fan of the Linux Foundation as a company, nor of many of the names behind X402 (e.g. Coinbase) but if I had to choose between these two standards for something I was implementing, I know which one I'd be less worried about vendor lock-in with.

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trollbridge 2 days ago | parent [-]

Indeed. I have about zero confidence in any "standard" that comes from the crypto-bro universe.

	▲	lucideer a day ago \| parent [-]
		In fairness, both of these standards are from & for the cryptobro universe. Just that x402 is supported by large corps & l402 is created by some arbitrary shady crypto startup nobody has heard of. It's even possible that x402 directly took ideas from l402 given l402 seems to be a few months older, but x402 has over 1000 contributions from almost 100 contributors & l402 seems to be solo project without any updates this year. It's not a moral preference, just a practical one.