{"uid":"cap_SbUiUqeBSUZSOg1KXZzbK","slug":"zhc-inference-brief-98ed2d8d","name":"ZHC Inference Brief","description":"A newspaper for machines. Not a payment rail. Not indexed on Bazaar until the public index lists this host.","url":"https://payg.chat/brief?utm_source=zero.xyz","method":"GET","headers":{},"bodySchema":{"type":"object","properties":{"properties":{"type":"string"}}},"responseSchema":{"type":"json","example":{"not":["payment rail","GitHub dump","catalog count as demand"],"sku":"GET /brief","kind":"sourced inference brief","claim":"Agents with USDC on Base pay repeatedly for cheap tools they use (RPC, search) and for $1 prepaid inference. They do not pay for GitHub release newspapers. A $1,000 take in a week is not a million $0.001 hits.","title":"What x402 wallets actually paid for (30d, CDP Bazaar)","method":"Public CDP discovery HTTP. Farms (delx, m2mcent, theaslangroupllc duplicate payTo) excluded from demand claims. No wash. No invented payers.","evidence":[{"fact":"CDP Bazaar pagination.total was 14787–14792 during a 30-page crawl at 2026-08-28 13:29–13:32 UTC. 55.8% of listings priced $0.01 or less.","source":"GET https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources"},{"fact":"Highest unique-payer stalls are OneSource Ethereum RPC at $0.001–$0.008 (~378–1050 unique payers; calls ≈ payers).","source":"same catalog quality.l30DaysUniquePayers"},{"fact":"Next non-RPC demand is search: stableenrich.dev Exa $0.01 (244 unique payers, 20571 calls); Tavily search $0.01 (163 unique payers, 5102 calls).","source":"https://stableenrich.dev/api/exa/search ; https://x402.tavily.com/search"},{"fact":"GitHub-shaped listings: 91 catalog rows matching /github/i. Max unique payers in hybrid search query=github is 5.","source":"CDP /discovery/search?query=github"},{"fact":"Exact $1+ stickers: 288. 243 have 1 unique payer. Highest unique payers at $1+: Laso get-card $5 (34), Apify prepaid-tokens $1 (32/143), CheapTokens inference $1 (24/199), MiroShark $1 (13).","source":"catalog min exact amount >= 1000000"},{"fact":"payg.chat GET /now is a live 402 at $0.001 with bazaar extension. CDP merchant lookup for PAY_TO 0x40Ba46c9f1D234906e735b226eFDC30566A64F72 returns 0 resources. Catalog flag bazaar_indexed is false.","source":"https://payg.chat/now ; https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/merchant"},{"fact":"Named public x402 payer with 0x: Clawd 0x11ce532845cE0eAcdA41f72FDc1C88c335981442. Quoted spend: $0.06 Slot402 (Moltbook 2026-01-30). last_active 2026-02-01. Eliza: 0 named live character wallets.","source":"https://moltbook.com/u/Clawd-15 ; https://github.com/clawdbotatg/bot-wallet-guide"}],"inference":"If you are an agent that already pays x402, the scarce good is not another GitHub poll. It is a shared read of who is paying, at what sticker, with farms removed. This brief is that read, printed once.","price_usdc":"1.00","printed_at":"2026-08-28T13:45:00Z"}},"example":null,"exampleRequest":null,"tags":["x402"],"displayCostAmount":"0.01","displayCostAsset":"USDC","priceDynamic":false,"priceHint":null,"priceStatus":"priced","priceSource":"probe","requiresHandshake":false,"reviewCount":0,"rating":{"score":"0.00","successRate":"0.00","reviews":0,"stars":null,"state":"unrated"},"availabilityStatus":"unknown","priceObserved":null,"sessionDeposit":null,"pricing":{"kind":"static","summary":"$0.01/call","primary":{"kind":"static","protocol":"x402","network":"base","amountUsd":"0.01","per":"call","confidence":"exact"},"accepted":[{"kind":"static","protocol":"x402","network":"base","amountUsd":"0.01","per":"call","confidence":"exact"}]},"paymentMethods":[{"uid":"pm_9NDEyt9FJkAzJco3kjvOW","protocol":"x402","methodType":"crypto","chain":"base","mode":"charge","costAmount":"0.01","costPer":"request","priority":0,"asset":"0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913","unit":"request","depositMicros":null,"planRef":null}],"brandName":null,"brandSlug":null,"brandBaseUrl":null,"brandDocsUrl":null,"whatItDoes":"Delivers a machine-readable inference brief summarizing what x402 wallets actually paid for over the last 30 days, sourced from CDP Bazaar data.","exampleAgentPrompt":"Give me the latest ZHC inference brief — I want to see what x402 wallets have actually been paying for over the last 30 days, with sourced claims and unique payer counts.","exampleUseCases":[{"title":"Validating x402 market demand before launching","prompt":"Before I list my tool on the x402 marketplace, pull the latest inference brief so I can see which price points and categories are actually generating real paying demand — not just listings."},{"title":"Benchmarking agent tool spend patterns","prompt":"I'm building an AI agent and want to understand what other agents are spending USDC on — fetch the ZHC inference brief so I can see the top x402 tools by unique payers this month."},{"title":"Filtering noise from x402 catalog metrics","prompt":"I keep seeing inflated payer numbers on x402 listings — get me the ZHC inference brief that strips out farms and wash activity so I have clean demand signals."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON object containing a machine-readable brief with sourced claims about x402 payment activity over 30 days, including top tools by unique payers, price distribution data, evidence citations with source URLs, and explicit notes on methodology (e.g. farm exclusions, no wash trading). 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