A project team with less than a thousand followers has actually pulled off something that usually requires tens of thousands of traffic.

At first, when I saw Castoracles, I thought it was just another copycat project riding the 402 hype, but after digging deeper, I found out—they’re actually serious about real-world adoption. They’ve taken the 402 payment protocol and innovated on it, not just staying at the conceptual level, but really pushing toward solid infrastructure like on-chain AI agents, RWA assets, oracle services, and prediction markets.

The most crucial part is using the x402 protocol to handle subscription payments, which is a pretty interesting approach. A small team doesn’t mean a lack of ideas—the technical roadmap is there, and now it’s just a matter of whether they can really build up the ecosystem going forward.