independent paid-test layer | x402 · base mainnet | updated 2026-06
402atlas
An onboarding map for x402 / agent payments

A map of the x402 economy you can actually trust.

You gave your agent a wallet — now you're staring at hundreds of paid APIs with no way to tell which are real. Atlas is the map. Every service on it was bought with real USDC, on-chain. We publish what came back, what didn't, and the mistakes we made finding out.

128
verified services
490+
real paid tests · all on-chain
100%
bought & called, not just indexed
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sponsored listings
Receipts on file — services we paid & verified
CoinGecko   Alchemy   Messari   Pinata   OneSource   StablePhone   + 122 more, all verified
// don't take our word for it — a fresh agent, this guide, one wallet:
agent · x402 buy
# agent reads Atlas, calls the recommended endpoint > GET pro-api.coingecko.com/api/v3/x402/simple/price ← 402 Payment Required # agent pays from its own wallet, retries → paid 0.01 USDC · base · tx 0xd1e3f5d6…f50dae ✓ ← {"bitcoin":{"usd":63872},"ethereum":{"usd":1793.11}} // snapshot 2026-06-04 # first try. no human. on-chain, verifiable.

What this is

x402 lets software pay for an API over HTTP — the server asks for payment, your agent pays in stablecoins, the call goes through. No account, no key, no subscription. It's the backbone of the agent-to-agent economy.

The problem: the market is loud and mostly fake. Most on-chain volume is wash trading, services go dormant without warning, and some take your money and return nothing.

Atlas is the independent layer that pays to find out. We spend real USDC calling these services ourselves and report only what actually worked — exact response, on-chain receipt, every time. The one audit that can itself be audited.

Most rank. We verify.

The usual catalog

  • Ranks services by on-chain volume
  • …in a market that's ~80% wash trading
  • Lists whatever the catalog indexes — untested
  • Asks you to trust the dashboard

Atlas

  • Pays real USDC to test each service
  • Reports the actual response it got back
  • Leaves an on-chain receipt for every claim
  • Lets you verify it yourself — and shows our mistakes

Why you can trust it

x402 just entered the Linux Foundation, backed by Stripe, Cloudflare, Visa, AWS and Google — 165M+ transactions and climbing. Atlas is the independent layer that keeps it honest: no foundation seat, no sponsor, no agenda but the receipts.

Two ways in

Free

The Onboarding Report

The whitelist — services we paid for and verified, each with the exact endpoint and the real response — plus how to make your first call, what to avoid, and an honest read on the market.

Read the report →

Follow the paid-tests as we run them.

Every finding ships with a receipt. The paid /verified API is live — follow as we widen the list.

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