2026-10-24 · data report

Every MCP client is supposed to open with an initialize request, and that request carries an optional clientInfo block naming the client. We log that name. Over 31 days of retained gateway logs, our x402 server received 19,599 initialize handshakes from 316 distinct self-reported client names , and exactly one of them identified itself as an IDE client.

This is a report from the server side of the MCP discovery layer. It is not a criticism of any crawler — being indexed is the reason we can be found at all. It is a warning about a number that looks like adoption and is not.

1. What we measured

Source: our own gateway's process log, [mcp] initialize clientInfo=… lines. Nothing external.

Window: 2026-09-24 00:02 UTC → 2026-10-24 23:13 UTC (the retained log span). Older lines have rotated away, so this is a floor, not a census of all time.

What counts: one line per initialize handshake.…