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x402 From First Principles: A Complete Protocol, Architecture, Security, AI Economy, and Developer Implementation Guide

2025-10-19•8 min read

A comprehensive deep-dive into the x402 protocol covering architecture, security mechanisms, AI economy integration, and practical developer implementation.

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I BUILT A DATABASE FROM SCRATCH IN RUST. HERE'S EVERYTHING THAT WENT WRONG.

2026-05-07•10 min read

Built ferrokey, an embedded KV store in Rust from scratch. B-tree, WAL, crash recovery, zero runtime dependencies. This is what actually broke my brain.

RUSTSYSTEMSDATABASE+2
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