Written by: Haotain

Last night, I stayed up late to experience @caffeineai. Staring at the complete dApp generated by natural language on the screen, I suddenly realized that the powerful combination of the x402 payment protocol and no-code applications will truly change Crypto:

Imagine this: you use Caffeine to generate an "AI companionship, consulting + subscription payment" application, which can integrate the x402 protocol for automatic payments. This Agent could operate independently for years. You only need to define a set of content generation logic and set a dynamic pricing strategy for income adjustment, and it becomes a completely autonomous business entity that makes money for you.

Think about it, what will this change? At the very least, the era of "super individuals" in the creator economy is coming sooner than expected.

Originally, creating a small program required assembling a team for development and operation, not to mention the fees for integrating the Stripe payment gateway, the costs of renting AWS servers, and the outrageous expenses for user growth and advertising.

Now, generating a dApp in 10 minutes, adding a small amount of startup capital, and having the x402 protocol for automatic payment collection basically allows you to start operating.

Of course, the above is currently quite optimistic, and there are definitely many practical challenges.

I randomly gave a command for Caffeine to generate a betting mini-game for me.

But incredibly, just as the x402 protocol, which is about to bridge Crypto payments and internet business models, is gaining popularity, another AI platform capable of generating complete On-chain applications using natural language has also made a sensational breakthrough.

Is this really just a coincidence?

If we must talk about the landing difficulties of the x402 protocol, it certainly has payment protocols but lacks practical application scenarios:

I paid 0.0001 USD through the x402 payment protocol to obtain the latest Crypto news.

You could say that Americans are accustomed to a mature commercial system based on credit card transactions, leaving no room for Crypto payments. You see the screen filled with discussions about Facilitator and Launchpd and criticize that Crypto only produces bubbles.

However, at this moment, @dfinity$ICP, a technical outlier dreaming of becoming the world's computer, provided an irrefutable answer using Caffeine: it doesn't necessarily have to overturn the business model; we can create a brand new AI super individual business model, right?

For example, if you want to do AI fortune-telling and charge 1 USD each time, under traditional business models and compliance frameworks, such a business would have no chance of survival. But with the combination of Caffeine generation + x402 payment, this might actually be feasible.

Because when the application cost approaches zero, operational costs are fixed and controllable, and payment friction disappears, a massive number of "long-tail super individual businesses" will surely emerge in the market.

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