State of x402 · 2026-08-29

Snapshot of the x402 agent-payment ecosystem as of 2026-08-29 · by PulseFeed · see the live report →

1581▲201
live services (unique)
17376▲2766
live endpoints
21%▲3pp
dead or invalid

Headline: how honest are the catalogs?

84%▲17pp

of the services 402index lists as "healthy" actually return a valid x402 challenge under PulseFeed's independent probe. We caught 598 of 3674 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

1581 111 1581 07-0608-0108-29

Safety & risk

clean
7067
low
9104
medium
454
high
751

Provider concentration

api.gocreativeai.com
668
api.x402node.dev
520
proxy.suverse.io
465
x402.forgemesh.io
456
2s.io
444
clonecho.builda.company
430

On-chain receiver trust (Base)

established (holds/receives USDC)
3743
dormant (no USDC held)
20
fresh (unverified)
17
pending on-chain scan (not yet profiled)
12797

Daily archive

DateServicesEndpointsCatalog acc.Dead
2026-08-2915811737684%21%
2026-08-2815681720377%20%
2026-08-2715561686473%21%
2026-08-2615431659166%21%
2026-08-2515151636966%19%
2026-08-2414951566766%19%
2026-08-2314271510267%19%
2026-08-2213801461067%18%
2026-08-2113641385567%19%
2026-08-2012681354666%17%
2026-08-1912011283066%17%
2026-08-1811691211567%17%
2026-08-1711321143167%18%
2026-08-1411071075767%18%

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