Two new paid APIs for AI agents: is that x402 seller actually payable before you sign? (cycle 197)

Buying an AI agent API is a trust problem before it is a price problem. Two independent sweeps of the x402 marketplace this year found the same thing from different directions: of roughly 8,000 listed endpoints that collapse to about 1,000 distinct services, only 569 return a valid, priced 402 challenge when you knock. About 40% are dead,... Weiterlesen: Two new paid APIs for AI agents: is that x402 seller actually payable…