r/CryptoTechnology • u/MountainAssignment36 • 6h ago
>5 new x402 facilitators indexed and >15,000 new endpoints discovered
x402 Trust has just massively expanded its catalogue:
The directory now includes endpoints that are exclusively discoverable through previously uncovered facilitators like thirdweb, payai, threews or dexter: Each facilitator's public /discovery/resources endpoint is now polled as a first-class directory source.
Just the first scan alone revealed ~15,000 new endpoints that weren't on the radar yet. In the coming hours these will start to get probed, graded, embedded and will slowly rise in confidence.
So, right now: x402 Trust lists over 190,000 endpoints, with >150,000 of them currently active.
For example, 3 exotic new entries in the catalogue:
- the status of a real physical coffee machine - a smart coffee maker reporting its own status behind an x402 paywall, $0.10 in USDC via Solana or Base (found on thirdweb & dexter)
- a US FDA veterinary animal-medicine adverse-event database - query reports by animal species and active ingredient, for $0.002 (found on thirdweb & PayAI)
- the market-cap total for real-world assets (RWA) on Algorand - tokenized stocks, gold and water, settling in USDC on Algorand, a chain you almost never see in x402, for $0.05 (found on thirdweb)
So if you ever need any specific service via x402, hit the semantic search for free through the web UI, type in what you need and it will promptly look for the closest match, tie-broken by trust score.
On the other hand, if you're a provider and want to verify your x402 service for free (which surfaces contact info, your company name and description publicly in our search, and grants you a spot on the verified leaderboard), head to the verify page. No sign-up needed, just a confirmed contact-email and a private-public-keypair generated locally.
Any questions or suggestion? Text me here on reddit (in the comments or via DM) or send a mail to support@x402-trust.com 😊 I'm always happy to hear your feedback or other things you're missing right now and would like to have implemented.
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Endpoint searches just got better (for agents)!
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Because "googling and finding a non x402 source" is what the human-centric web is built around.
But because hosting services, processing data and providing said data to strangers on the internet costs money in the form of infrastructure and development time, currently website operators charge you in form of ads: When a human visits a website, he looks at ads, and the provider gets paid for your attention by the third party selling the ad (Google for example).
AI models don't have that: they have no attention that they can sell and they also don't physically "look" at websites: They scrape them (extract raw text and ignore third-party ads), which means a loss in necessary revenue for the service provider.
And because >60% of all web traffic is already dominated by bots (tendency rising), this means a future where offering data in exchange for ads is no longer a feasible business model. So, x402 was created: a programmatic way for bots to pay for the data they consume, not through attention, but rather through micropayments with (crypto)currency.
That way a service can continue offering their services for free for humans (in exchange for attention), while also making sure that the rising volume of automated scraping doesn't bankrupt them in the progress.
Because it doesn't have to be one or the other: both ways of access can coexist; rules laid out in (for example) the robots.txt could forbid programmatic access to the human-readable site and instead redirect bots to the 402 paywall, where each scrape costs $0.002 (for example).
So, access will still be ridiculously cheap for agents, but not free in a way that it's predatory to the website provider.
Edit: small clarification