Silence is not a failed payment. It is an unresolved state. Here is what that costs, and how to encode your way out of it.

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Every payment system has a gap between sending an instruction and receiving confirmation. In Lagos or Nairobi, that gap is not an edge case. x402-recovery models it as an explicit state machine, so your system stops guessing and starts knowing.