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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.
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