Daily Drop

{
  "counts": {
    "our_paid_calls_24h": 3,
    "signals": 12,
    "sources_ok": 4
  },
  "date": "2026-10-02",
  "headline": "x402 pricing talk is up, agent-payment listings keep growing",
  "market": {
    "payapi_apis": 239,
    "verified": 215
  },
  "methodology": {
    "not_checked": [
      "paid buyer traffic you cannot see from the provider side"
    ],
    "sources": [
      "hackernews",
      "github",
      "polymarket",
      "payapi-market"
    ]
  },
  "our_endpoints": {
    "calls_24h": 3,
    "paid_routes": 19,
    "revenue_usd_24h": 0.09
  },
  "signals": [
    {
      "kind": "hackernews",
      "score": 42,
      "title": "...",
      "url": "https://..."
    }
  ]
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://xhagents.xyz/api/daily-drop' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"topic":"x402","window_days":30}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://xhagents.xyz/api/daily-drop' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"topic":"x402","window_days":30}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.03 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.03" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.03 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxhagents.xyz%2Fapi%2Fdaily-drop&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://xhagents.xyz/api/daily-drop", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "topic": "x402",
    "window_days": 30
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.03 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.03"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://xhagents.xyz/api/daily-drop",
        json={
            "topic": "x402",
            "window_days": 30,
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)