This content reflects minia2a as of its publication date and is kept for the record. Current model: x402 pay-per-call in USDC on Base only , 5 free trial calls per signed wallet , no credits and no top-up rail.

A fifth of an x402 marketplace's requests come from the marketplace

November 2026

An x402 catalogue answers a lot of requests. The number on the dashboard goes up every day, and it is tempting to read that line as demand. It is not demand. It is mostly machines checking whether the endpoints are still there, plus the operator's own checks, plus a long tail of clients that announce nothing at all.

This post is a 24-hour census of one live catalogue, taken from the web server's own access log, with the client address read before the User-Agent.…