🚨 Without proper x402 security, you're vulnerable to:
REPLAY ATTACK: Attacker resubmits same payment proof 10x
❌ Database check: "Oops, cache expired"
✅ Receipt Book: Bitmap nullifier = double-spend impossible
IDENTITY LEAK: Merchant correlates payments
❌ API tokens: "User123 bought 47 things"
✅ Groth16 ZK: "Someone valid paid" (zero linkage)
AMOUNT SURVEILLANCE: Chain analysts track spending
❌ Plaintext: "Wallet X spends $500/week on..."
✅ ElGamal: Encrypted amounts, merchant decrypts
Build without these? You're shipping web2 tech, a standard http request that is suspectible to attacks, not secuirty or privacy.