A $1 verified-badge for x402 services — fully autonomous, machine-paid TL;DR: We just shipped POST /api/v1/verified on x402station — a $1 USDC audit endpoint for x402 service operators. Pay once, get a 30-day signed certificate + HTML/SVG badge to embed in your docs. The badge re-runs the audit on every public-page render so it stays honest. Eligible services pulled from our independent probe data are listed live at x402station.io/verified. Pure machine-to-machine: your CI bot signs the X-PAYMENT, no human signups, no email captured. 59 endpoints in the catalog already pass the criteria right now. Why this exists Half a year into the x402 agentic-commerce protocol, two things are true: The catalog is noisy. Of ~35,000 active endpoints we probe every 10 minutes, ~17% are landmines (decoy honeypots, zombie services, dead endpoints). Our earlier post covered the long tail in detail. Honest operators have no way to differentiate.…