The last pieces have been locked in for our next in-person event in London. Firstly, we would like to announce or last speaker: Jeremiah Lee from the Interledger Foundation who will be discussing dev...

In this episode Heather Flanagan examines how web payments and digital identity are converging at the W3C, exploring digital wallets, browser-based APIs, and regulatory pressure shaping modern payment flows and trust on the web today as standards discussions reveal shifting assumptions across ecosystems. Discover how Secure Payment Confirmation, passkeys, browser-bound keys, and the Digital Credentials API influence fraud prevention, interoperability, and auditability, and why agentic AI, mandate-based consent, and wallet fragmentation make identity design decisions increasingly critical for payments, institutions, and users worldwide.

For a long time, logging into a website was (perhaps still is) a bit of a mess. There's definitely been many efforts to fix it, though OAuth buttons and SSO integrations tried to clean things up, but under the hood, “Sign in with…” is mostly a best-effort dance. You can authenticate a user, maybe even grab some claims about them, and with luck, stitch together a tolerable user experience.

Coinbase and the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on Apr 2, 2026 to steward an open web-payments standard; monitor browser support and merchant pilots within 12–24 months.

In this week’s edition of Madhu Sudhan Subedi Tech Weekly, we explore the hidden risks of dynamic method calls in PHP, the evolving role of developers as non-engineers start coding with LLMs, and how smart indexing can supercharge SQL performance. We also share lessons beyond code for new programmers and dive into the revival of HTTP 402, showing how agentic payments could reshape the web economy. Stay ahead with insights on practical coding, team collaboration, database optimization, and the future of digital transactions.