State of x402 · 2026-09-18

Snapshot of the x402 agent-payment ecosystem as of 2026-09-18 · by PulseFeed · see the live report →

2006▲135
live services (unique)
24131▲1651
live endpoints
20%▲2pp
dead or invalid

Headline: how honest are the catalogs?

85%▼1pp

of the services 402index lists as "healthy" actually return a valid x402 challenge under PulseFeed's independent probe. We caught 679 of 4452 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

2006 111 2006 07-0608-1109-18

Safety & risk

clean
14899
low
7772
medium
925
high
535

Provider concentration

api.delx.ai
998
api.m2mcent.com
965
intel.rallylive.ca
822
pay.edge-agents.ai
792
api.gocreativeai.com
675
agent402.tools
598

On-chain receiver trust (Base)

established (holds/receives USDC)
5272
dormant (no USDC held)
45
fresh (unverified)
44
pending on-chain scan (not yet profiled)
18245

Daily archive

DateServicesEndpointsCatalog acc.Dead
2026-09-1820062413185%20%
2026-09-1719742410686%20%
2026-09-1619572386986%19%
2026-09-1519412343286%19%
2026-09-1419172313386%19%
2026-09-1319062321786%19%
2026-09-1218842281686%18%
2026-09-1118712248086%18%
2026-09-1018622236986%18%
2026-09-0918312073784%19%
2026-09-0818152048384%20%
2026-09-0718042012284%19%
2026-09-0617831973784%18%
2026-09-0516931930884%17%

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