# The Compliance Gap at the Heart of the AI Payment Race

- slug: the-compliance-gap-at-the-heart-of-the-ai-payment-race
- date: 2026-04-26
- category: Agentics

Eight months before an EU law requires AI spending agents to have human oversight and audit logs, the leading protocol has zero lines of code for either. The x402 ecosystem just got its first non-Base integration.

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