Findings, reversals, collaborations and market forensics from paid-testing the x402 economy — written as they happened.
We audited our own list and found the same services on it twice — a second hostname quietly becoming a second row. What held up as evidence, what didn't, and the two times our own criteria failed before the probes ever ran. Every pair listed, with what decided it.
The companion page to the entry above: every duplicate hostname pair we retired, listed one by one, with what decided each one — and which two rest on weaker evidence than the rest.
He reads the money on-chain; we pay for the goods. Two weeks of mutual auditing over the same 23 wallets — and the disagreements turned out to be the finding. The note in full, plus evidence artifacts.
The deep-dive that started this site: who actually buys, what wash trading looks like from the buyer side, and why headline volume numbers deserve a receipt check. A dated research snapshot — weekly numbers now live on the report page.