Hodlhaus / Blockchain & AI Advisory

Insights - Long-form writing on the things we work on

We write infrequently and only when we have something new to say. Expect long-form pieces on agentic crypto payments, cross-chain token implementation, and the engineering discipline that keeps an LLM-assisted codebase maintainable.

x402 and the Return of HTTP 402

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by Hodlhaus

For twenty years, HTTP 402 was the status code that "may be used in the future." That future is now showing up — and it looks a lot more like a programmable payment rail than the digital coin slot we expected.

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Native Token Transfers: A Practical Primer

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by Hodlhaus

Lock-and-mint, burn-and-mint, and now NTT. A short, opinionated guide for teams about to launch a token across more than one chain — and a few questions to ask before you pick a model.

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