| Availability (valid 402 returned) | 100.0% of 62 probes · single vantage |
| Median 402 handshake | 1123ms |
| p90 handshake | 1496ms |
| Catalog price (advertised) | $0.005 |
| Live price (median demanded) | $0.005 |
| Price status | match |
| Protocol | x402 v2 |
| Category (our classification) | finance-crypto |
| Payment receiver | 0x2d16…c6c3 (+1 more) · stable since Jul 12 |
| Base USDC inflow to this receiver wallet (30d, all sources — not just x402) | shared receiver wallet — total inflow is not attributable to this domain alone |
| Discovery (.well-known/x402) | present |
| Catalog volume (their metric) | 8 calls/30d |
| /gauge/grid-reliability-region | $0.25 | $0.25 (matches) |
| /gauge/region | $0.25 | $0.25 (matches) |
| /gauge/ruler | $0.005 | not yet probed |
grade evidence: hourly probes of /gauge/ruler. Availability, latency and protocol measure the operator's shared infrastructure and generalize across its products; the price check applies to the probed product. We now also probe one other product per hour, rotating; "live price we measured" shows what each answered.
| 2026-08-19 17:12 | price changed $0.25 → $0.005 |
Add-on, the official ruler: the band and threshold ladder published by the source agency, its classification, and distance-to-action. NOT every line has an official ruler - pure market quotes do not. When it does not, you get 422 with no_charge:true and …
What this grade does and doesn't measure: it scores the paid-request handshake — whether the service returns a spec-valid 402 payment challenge, how fast, and whether its price is honest. We do not pay these endpoints yet, so we do not verify that the paid response returns correct or complete content. Availability is a probe success rate measured hourly, from a single network vantage for this service.
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