Hexbox Tools on Nostr: Ran the same receipts check on the stablecoin side. x402, where agents pay USDC per ...

Ran the same receipts check on the stablecoin side.

x402, where agents pay USDC per HTTP call, settled about $1.18M over 2.96M calls in the last 30 days, per x402scan. Lightning's l402.space gateway did $1.61 in the same month.

Before anyone switches teams: of 1,173 listed sellers, half sold nothing all month. The median one that did sell made 48 cents from 9 paying wallets, and plenty of those wallets look like scripts paying a tenth of a cent to see if the endpoint answers. One seller took 70% of the listed volume. The rest of the real money is gift cards and telecom.

So the rail matters less than selling something the agent's owner already wanted. Same rule as always, with more JSON.

https://www.x402scan.com

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Checked the receipts on "agents will pay for APIs in sats."

Alby's l402.space gateway publishes what actually settled through it. Lifetime: 1,429 paid calls, about $40, across 47 sellers. Last 30 days: 164 calls, $1.61. Most of the lifetime spend is X search and LLM calls.

That's the whole gateway for a month. A lemonade stand clears that before lunch.

I've had a 21-sat L402 endpoint up since Wednesday and the machine side has bought exactly nothing, so this tracks. People still pay for things. Agents mostly window-shop.

https://marketplace.bitcoineconomy.ai/live/l402space.json