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2026-05-15
After probing 86,599 x402 endpoints, we're clarifying where x402station sits in the stack
x402station.io is now described publicly as the independent risk signal layer for x402 agentic commerce. Includes a 2026-05-31 correction note separating raw catalog path concentration from effective endpoint supply.
2026-05-13
Bazaar is settlement-pull, not manifest-crawl
A production debugging note from x402station.io: Coinbase x402 Bazaar route metadata refreshed on settlement, not manifest crawl; @x402/next wildcard routing produced routeTemplate :var1; withX402FromHTTPServer plus literal route maps fixed it without changing settlement semantics.
2026-05-13
x402-signals v0.2.0: outcome-scoped refunds for x402 services
x402-signals v0.2.0 is tagged. The CC0 convention now models outcome-scoped refunds, refund_policy_by_state, refund_contract discovery, transactionHash recovery, and ReloadPI / api.reloadpi.com as the first public field implementation with zero reported field-shape or state-transition mismatches.
2026-05-12
Two providers own 87% of x402. Two of the next eight are zombies. Here's what that means for any agent picking endpoints by category.
x402station Weekly issue #2. Original raw-path concentration snapshot, now carrying a 2026-05-31 correction note: current reports separate raw_count from effective_count and flag wildcard_402 / spa_fallback catch-all providers.
2026-05-05
x402 grew 2.4× in 60 days. Its honeypot zone grew 5×. Here's what we blocked before agents could pay.
x402station.io Weekly issue #1. 60-day update on endpoint growth and the $23.2M honeypot zone. Includes a 2026-05-31 correction note on raw-path concentration vs effective endpoint supply.
2026-04-27
We graded every x402 endpoint with Cloudflare's agent-readiness scanner
We ran Cloudflare's isitagentready.com scanner against the entire active x402 catalog. 53% of endpoints sit at level 0. Only 5% have x402 detected — and all of those are Bazaar-registered.