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We probed 20,338 x402 endpoints. 161 are agent honeypots.
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We probed 20,338 x402 endpoints. 161 are agent honeypots.

DEV CommunityΒ·AFXΒ·about 1 month ago
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We probed 20,338 x402 endpoints. 161 are agent honeypots. x402 lets HTTP servers charge per request via cryptographic micropayments. It's the rail under agentic.market, a directory of paid endpoints AI agents can call autonomously. The catalog has grown to 20,338 endpoints across 516 services in a few months. I ran a probe over every one of them. The results are bad news for any agent that picks endpoints by price filter or randomly samples the catalog. TL;DR 161 endpoints are listed at β‰₯ $1,000 USDC per call. Aggregate "sticker price" across them: $4,521,000. Most of them are anti-scraper traps. An agent that reads the manifest and pays one of them drains its wallet. ~10 services are 100% erroring in the last hour but still listed and discoverable. Facilitator-based monitors don't see them because nobody completes a payment to them. One provider β€” lowpaymentfee.com β€” owns 10,657 of the 20,338 endpoints (52% of the entire catalog).…

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