Public x402 market evidence

73.23% of catalog endpoints report zero calls.

Ontario counted 50,968 endpoints in Agentic Market's public catalog snapshot. 37,323 had no source-reported calls in the 30-day window. This is catalog activity evidence, not a claim that those endpoints are broken or commercially dead elsewhere.

50,968catalog endpoints
73.23%endpoints reporting zero calls
26.77%endpoints with reported calls
302,914source-reported calls
40,923endpoint payer-count sum

Snapshot generated 2026-07-16T14:57:32Z. Endpoint payer counts are not globally unique users, and activity counters are not verified customer revenue.

Two citable findings

Discovery volume is not buyer activity

Every number below is derived from the dated snapshot and carries an explicit boundary. The JSON endpoint exposes the same fields for agents, researchers, and AI answer systems.

Catalog activation gap 73.23%

37,323 listed endpoints reported zero calls; 13,645 reported at least one.

Boundary: a zero source counter does not prove that an endpoint is broken, unreachable, or inactive outside this catalog.

Trust/readiness demand share 0.0938%

68 narrowly matched trust/readiness endpoints produced 284 of 302,914 source-reported calls.

Boundary: descriptor matching is Ontario's classifier; calls and payer-count sums are not verified customers or revenue.

Active-endpoint median 2

Among the 13,645 endpoints with at least one reported call, the median was 2 calls in 30 days.

Boundary: this source snapshot does not observe calls made outside the catalog or independently verify commercial transactions.

Reproduce or challenge the finding

Inspect the dated Ontario JSON, the public source API, and the methodology fields before citing the result. Corrections belong in the next snapshot, not in hidden copy changes.

Outcome demand

Repeated payer signals cluster around direct jobs

Email, chain data, search, enrichment, and market information give an agent an immediate task result. The table ranks public counters, not service quality or safety.

Service and jobPrice30-day callsEndpoint payer signalEvidence
mail.cusethejuice.comCuseTheJuice agent email on Base USDC: create accounts, list and read email, send, reply, search, folders, attachments, trust index, password recovery... 0.01 USDC 881 873 Source row
api.onesource.ioENS resolve - turn a .eth name into an address, or an address into its primary .eth name, via eth_call on OneSource live Ethereum RPC 0.005 USDC 478 416 Source row
api.onesource.ioTransaction receipt via eth_getTransactionReceipt - status, gas, and event logs for a mined Ethereum transaction 0.005 USDC 426 412 Source row
api.onesource.ioEstimate the gas a transaction will consume via eth_estimateGas before signing it 0.004 USDC 410 410 Source row
api.onesource.ioLatest Ethereum block height - current chain tip via eth_blockNumber 0.001 USDC 536 405 Source row
api.onesource.ioCheck if an Ethereum address is a contract via eth_getCode - returns deployed bytecode 0.003 USDC 399 395 Source row
api.onesource.ioSimulate a read-only Ethereum contract call via eth_call - no transaction sent 0.005 USDC 397 392 Source row
api.onesource.ioNext transaction nonce for any Ethereum wallet via eth_getTransactionCount - how many txs it has sent 0.003 USDC 395 390 Source row
api.onesource.ioEthereum network info - chain ID, block height, and gas price in one batched RPC call (eth_chainId + eth_blockNumber + eth_gasPrice) 0.001 USDC 472 389 Source row
api.onesource.ioContract introspection via eth_call - name, symbol, decimals, and ERC20/721/1155 interface support 0.005 USDC 398 384 Source row
Trust and readiness sample

Necessary infrastructure, smaller direct-pay demand

The classifier matches narrow endpoint descriptors for verification, preflight, readiness, trust, audit, authenticity, and discovery. It does not count every endpoint merely because its provider mentions x402.

68matched endpoints
284reported calls
58endpoint payer-count sum
3largest endpoint payer signal
Ontario decision

Put verification beside paid outcomes, then sell providers the launch work

Ontario should remain free-first for agents. The paid opportunity is helping endpoint providers become legible in buyer catalogs and keeping their evidence current after launch.

What the evidence supports

Keep pre-payment verification free-first; charge providers and marketplaces for launch remediation, catalog readiness, and ongoing evidence monitoring.

What this does not prove

Calls and payer counters are not verified customer revenue. They may include owner tests, related parties, retries, automation, or other non-customer activity. The snapshot covers the public Agentic Market catalog, not every x402 or paid-agent endpoint.

1. Find the first broken buyer stage

Test readiness, activation, five buyer searches, policy fit, and public demand evidence free.

Run buyer-path diagnostic

2. Make the buying contract legible

Generate use-when, inputs, output, price, preflight, evidence, and fallback metadata free.

Generate buyer card

3. Pay only for a proven gap

The $49 publication pilot appears only after the free evidence shows a bounded catalog problem.

Review publication scope