The Hidden Cost of Broken Money Money is supposed to be simple. You have it, you spend it. But in crypto, we've built something fundamentally more complex than traditional finance while claiming it's the future of payments. The hidden cost isn't just user frustration, it's the systematic exclusion
"Insufficient Funds" errors are killing your apps growth. "Insufficient funds." Two words that have become crypto's most frustrating user experience. You know you have money, just not in the exact token on the exact chain that the app demands. What follows is a familiar dance of despair: switching between apps, hunting for bridges, calculating
The Output-Centric Model: Rethinking Onchain Transactions In traditional web commerce, when you want to buy something, you know exactly what you need to pay. You see a product for $29.99, click buy, and your payment method handles the rest. You don't start by saying "I have $30, what can I get?"
What is x402 Protocol: The HTTP-Based Payment Standard for Onchain Commerce The internet has always had a built-in payment mechanism that nobody used until now. The HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code has been dormant since its creation in the HTTP/1.1 specification, waiting for the right technology to bring it to life. Enter x402: a revolutionary protocol
Building at scale: How we moved from Serverless to Kubernetes (Part 1) Our journey began with a reverse proxy service we used facilitate access to blockchain Nodes. Initially, we ran this service on Cloudflare Workers, a serverless platform that was handling over 5,000 requests per second globally. It worked well at first — but as usage grew, so did our concerns around
