Stablecoins Can Power Micropayments. Business Models Will Decide Their Future.

Stablecoins remove the cost barrier that made micropayments impractical by enabling tiny transactions without high fixed fees. New standards like x402 embed payments directly into web requests for machine-to-machine commerce. However, businesses must rethink what they sell and how they package it, as subscriptions and bundles often prove economically superior to pay-per-use models.