Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong retweeted a post by Drew Mailen, which noted that Project x402 was incubated by Coinbase in 2025 and, 14 months later in July 2026, was handed over to the Linux Foundation for management. The tweet drew an analogy between x402's development path and Kubernetes, which was initially incubated by Google before being transferred to the Linux Foundation and has since become a critical component of cloud infrastructure.