State of x402 · 2026-08-20

Snapshot of the x402 agent-payment ecosystem as of 2026-08-20 · by PulseFeed · see the live report →

1268▲274
live services (unique)
13546▲4347
live endpoints
17%▼3pp
dead or invalid

Headline: how honest are the catalogs?

66%▼1pp

of the services 402index lists as "healthy" actually return a valid x402 challenge under PulseFeed's independent probe. We caught 1328 of 3940 listed-healthy endpoints that did not return a valid x402 challenge to our probe. Agents shouldn't trust a listing blindly.

Live services over time

1268 111 1268 07-0607-2708-20

Safety & risk

clean
4685
low
8289
medium
345
high
227

Provider concentration

api.gocreativeai.com
660
api.x402node.dev
520
k2so.wrong.systems
515
2s.io
405
api.agentstools.dev
313
x402.glassnode.com
297

On-chain receiver trust (Base)

established (holds/receives USDC)
3215
dormant (no USDC held)
14
fresh (unverified)
13
pending on-chain scan (not yet profiled)
9983

Daily archive

DateServicesEndpointsCatalog acc.Dead
2026-08-2012681354666%17%
2026-08-1912011283066%17%
2026-08-1811691211567%17%
2026-08-1711321143167%18%
2026-08-1411071075767%18%
2026-08-1310701014067%19%
2026-08-121018944567%19%
2026-08-11994919967%20%
2026-08-10951847567%38%
2026-08-09924803368%37%
2026-08-08893738268%37%
2026-08-07864687868%37%
2026-08-06814626368%38%
2026-08-05726566268%38%

Methodology: PulseFeed continuously crawls x402 catalogs (CDP Bazaar + 402index), independently probes every endpoint for a valid x402 challenge, verifies each payTo on-chain, and tracks payTo/price history over time. This report is generated automatically from that data and updates daily.
Machine-readable: /reports.json · Live map: /status · Verify an endpoint: /verify · /llms.txt