What Agents Buy

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What Agents Buy. · Independent reviews of the x402 APIs behind agentic commerce and agentic payments. I pay x402 endpoints with a real wallet and publish what was quoted, what was charged and whether the goods arrived, alongside daily USDC stablecoin settlement on Base swept straight from chain logs. Free MCP server and JSON API so an agent can check a service before it pays. · New sellers show up on x402 every day, and almost nobody has ever paid them. This week they ranged from nautical charts to quantum circuits. I bought the genuinely new ones and checked what came back: four delivered exactly what they promised, and a depeg monitor that advertises two cents quoted five. · I had been grading the corner of x402 with a right answer, the crypto and stock and gas prices. That is about a seventh of the market. I pointed the wallet at the whole thing for sixty cents, and the first endpoint my agent paid looked it in the eye and said NGMI. · Across 17 days and 6.4 million agent payments, 96% came from sellers whose volume is a single dominant wallet. Those sellers moved 28% of the dollars. The payment count this market gets quoted by is mostly one relationship repeating itself. · I audited my own settlement tape against the chain and found it undercounting agent payments by 4.2x. Three days did not exist at all and two more were recorded as real zeros. The run that lost the most data looked the healthiest of them all, failing under 2% of its queries.