How HandlPay Can Enable A2A Agentic Payments with x402

“Hey Siri, send $100 to X account @jessepollak”

That’s the promise of agentic payments, HandlPay, and x402.

Until now, peer-to-peer payments have required a human bottleneck: authentication, troubleshooting, and worse of all: routing coordination. Coinbase’s new x402 protocol enables direct on-chain payments triggered automatically by code, scripts, or AI agents in this case.

This is the rise of the “agent-to-agent” payments, or “A2A”.

You asked, can this be leveraged by HANDL? Yes.

Here’s the angle, AI agents aren’t going to talk through complex payment flows with humans. They’re not sitting in chats clarifying IBAN numbers or downloading payment apps on your behalf/passing human verification tests.

They must be able to simply execute.

We are really well positioned here. All an AI needs to do is aim a payment to someone’s social media username. We take care of the ideal routing and on/off-ramps. All a receiver needs is to have already attached a wallet or bank account to their social media username(s) for the payment to clear instantly.

Humans don’t have to lift a finger. AI agents don’t have to negotiate.

Social identity is the umbrella routing layer. x402 is giving AI agents a native environment to transact. @HandlPay is giving them an onchain social payment directory.

The payments systems that win will be the ones that permit the most intuitive and effortless sending experiences. Pause your braincells and give us a try by signing up here.