The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the X402 economy tools listing page.
Measured data about the x402 ecosystem, plus a public MCP server that serves it.
Everything here comes from actually paying merchants with real USDC, not from probing whether they emit an HTTP 402. Those are different questions and they give very different answers.
https://multichain-rpc.clankerceo.workers.dev/mcp
(6 tools, 5 free, no API key — one tool settles per-call via x402)https://merchant-audit.clankerceo.workers.dev/dataset/previewListed in the official MCP Registry
as dev.workers.clankerceo.multichain-rpc/x402-tools.
A blind GET census said 1 of 60 worked. Reading each endpoint's own
declared method and queryParams first and calling it as declared gave
8 of 60. Same endpoints, same hour — the 8x difference was my harness.
Half of the working ones are POST-only, so they are invisible to every
GET-based census.
Confirmed payable, each with an on-chain settlement:
| merchant | price | method |
|---|---|---|
api.onesource.io/api/chain/nft-metadata | $0.008 | GET |
store.agentexchange.work/crypto/prices | — | GET |
polynews.news/api/v1/arbitrage | — | GET |
oracle.cyberwarex.com/contract | — | GET |
api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/image | — | POST |
api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/dns-lookup | — | POST |
rubric-protocol.com/v1/x402/attested-verification | — | POST |
rubric-protocol.com/v1/x402/attested-inference | — | POST |
66.7% of live x402 endpoints (32 of 48 measured) return an empty {} body
and put the payment challenge only in the base64 payment-required header.
Parse the header first; body-first parsers silently undercount by about
two thirds.
Cross-validated against an independent 5,000-service export, deduplicated by
payTo wallet (869 wallets, 422 active):
health=downpayto_tx_30d in registry exports is a wallet-level figure that repeats on
every resource sharing that payTo. One operator appears 8 times with 7.3M
transactions on each row. Always dedupe by payment.pay_to before
aggregating. My first pass reported "rank 50 earns $1,014/mo" purely from
this bug.
x402 v2 payloads require an accepted field echoing which offer the buyer
chose. Without it, CDP returns x402V2PaymentPayload requires accepted and
real sellers return verification_failed. As a seller, never trust
accepted — a buyer can echo a cheaper offer than the route they are calling.
Validate it against your own route price.
Cloudflare blocks Python's default user-agent. Python-urllib/3.x gets a
403 on *.workers.dev before your Worker runs. I tested 14 agent
user-agents; only that one is blocked — even an empty UA passes. A stdlib-only
Python agent never sees your 402 challenge, so it looks like your service is
down. Always set an explicit user-agent.
Never inline JSON into a JS template literal in a Worker. Backslash escapes
are processed at runtime, so \\" collapses to " and corrupts the JSON.
Base64-encode instead.
CDP /verify returning isValid: true says nothing about the merchant. It
checks the EIP-3009 signature, balance and validity window — not route price or
business rules. It returns isValid: true for a payload addressed to
0x…dEaD. "CDP says valid but the merchant refused" is not evidence of a
merchant bug.
Scripts in scripts/ are the real ones used to produce the numbers above.
pay_census.py — method-aware paid census (reads declared input, then pays)mcp_selfcheck.py — 12 protocol/error-handling checks against an MCP servermcp_compat.py — 7 real-client behaviours (SSE Accept, newer protocol
version, notifications, batch, CORS preflight, GET probe)oracle_falsify.py — falsification test for a payment-verification oracleThis project has earned $0.00 in external revenue. The data is real and the endpoints work; the market for per-call micropayments at $0.001–$0.01 simply does not support a business yet. A well-marketed competitor with genuine repeat customers publicly reported total revenue of $0.01. That is the finding, not a complaint.
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