# University of Chicago Poli-Sci — byeffect.org

Description for agents that cannot render images:

Alice — the slighter, more European-looking of the site's two Alice characters, braided hair, wool coat — stands in the snow in front of Gothic collegiate architecture at dusk, a wooden vendor tray hanging from her shoulder. The tray holds small matchboxes, each printed with "X402" in glowing text. She hands one to a student while two others look on, one scanning a QR code on the box with a phone. Streetlamp light, falling snow.

The scene is a street-vendor image for an on-chain payment protocol (x402) — the old-world hawker's pitch applied to a new economic rail.

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