The headline needs to capture the key facts: 14,085 x402 endpoints catalogued, 10,508 from one domain, leaving 3,577 genuine ones.

Short summary

A team catalogued 14,085 x402 payment endpoints and found 10,508 came from a single suspended domain, leaving only 3,577 genuine endpoints — of which roughly two in five fail verification. They probe every endpoint every 10 minutes via Cloudflare Cron, checking HTTP 402 responses, payment challenge validity, price drift, and latency. The system surfaces only verified, stable endpoints to AI agents that pay per-call with USDC, preventing agents from losing money on dead or misconfigured endpoints.

• •14,085 catalogued x402 endpoints but 75% came from one suspended domain; only 3,577 are genuine and 40% of those fail verification
• •Continuous probing every 10 minutes checks 402 response, challenge validity, price drift, and latency with rolling 7-day success rates
• •Testnet endpoints are filtered from discovery since they handshake cleanly but never move real money, protecting funded agent wallets

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