| Availability (valid 402 returned) | 99.4% of 160 probes |
| Median 402 handshake | 1124ms |
| p90 handshake | 1384ms |
| Catalog price (advertised) | $0.001 |
| Live price (median demanded) | $0.001 |
| Price status | match |
| Protocol | x402 v2 |
| Category (our classification) | security-infra |
| Payment receiver | 0x9d86…f296 · stable since Jul 12 |
| Base USDC settlement to this receiver wallet (30d' measured by us) | x402-plausible (amount matches a listed price): $0 · 420 transfers · 2 distinct senders. All USDC inflow' upper bound incl. non-x402: $0 · 421 transfers. |
| Second vantage | confirmed 402 from a second network path (Cloudflare edge), just now |
| Discovery (.well-known/x402) | not found |
| Catalog volume (their metric) | 247 calls/30d |
| /bob/x402 | $0.001 | $0.001 (matches) |
| /data/balances/x402 | $0.002 | $0.002 (matches) |
| /eth/x402 | $0.001 | $0.001 (matches) |
| /plasma/x402 | $0.001 | $0.001 (matches) |
| /zircuit/x402 | $0.001 | $0.001 (matches) |
| /arb/x402 | $0.001 | not yet probed |
| /avax/x402 | $0.001 | not yet probed |
| /base/x402 | $0.001 | not yet probed |
| /bnb/x402 | $0.001 | not yet probed |
| /cronos/x402 | $0.001 | not yet probed |
and 15 more listed paths
grade evidence: hourly probes of /base/x402. 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. This operator lists 25 products; the grade is evidence from a small sample of them.
Base RPC (chain 8453): JSON-RPC over HTTPS on NodeFlare's own bare-metal nodes. Pay per request in USDC, no account or API key - built for AI agents. All methods including eth_getLogs, eth_call, trace, and debug (archive) - good for indexing, event …
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, corroborated by a second network path for this service.
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