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lucideer 2 days ago

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.

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.