no fees, 2 second settlement (good for streaming), usdc (pegged to $), $0.001 minimum payment
_and_ the protocol seems to support metadata natively (for messages): https://github.com/coinbase/x402/issues/60#issuecomment-3304927668
right now you have to trust coinbase as the "facilitator" or self host, but I assume cloudflare/others will also run one of these eventually
gonna poke around and see what a bare-bones podcast example might look like
