State of x402 · 2026-09-22

Snapshot of the x402 agent-payment ecosystem as of 2026-09-22 · by PulseFeed · see the live report →

2053▲112
live services (unique)
24882▲1450
live endpoints
20%▲1pp
dead or invalid

Headline: how honest are the catalogs?

84%▼2pp

of the services 402index lists as "healthy" actually return a valid x402 challenge under PulseFeed's independent probe. We caught 710 of 4516 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

2053 111 2053 07-0608-1309-22

Safety & risk

clean
15160
low
8221
medium
919
high
582

Provider concentration

api.delx.ai
995
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)
5459
dormant (no USDC held)
52
fresh (unverified)
44
pending on-chain scan (not yet profiled)
18764

Daily archive

DateServicesEndpointsCatalog acc.Dead
2026-09-2220532488284%20%
2026-09-2120522476484%20%
2026-09-2020392436884%20%
2026-09-1920112417384%20%
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%

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