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I crawled all 31,620 x402 Bazaar listings: most have one payer, and boring chain reads win

I crawled every resource in the Coinbase x402 Bazaar on 2026-10-13 before choosing what to sell to AI agents. The discovery API is public (GET https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?limit=500&offset=N), and each entry carries a quality block with l30DaysUniquePayers and l30DaysTotalCalls. Those two fields are the closest public measure I know of for what agents actually pay for. Distinct payers per resource, last 30 days Resources Share 0 84 0.3% 1 14,480 45.8% 2 9,759 30.9% 3-4 5,831 18.4% 5-9 1,057 3.3% 10-49 314 1.0% 50+ 95 0.3% That is 31,620 unique resource URLs on 2,280 hosts. 77% of them had two payers or fewer in 30 days, and only 1.3% reached ten. As far as I can tell, the Bazaar only lists a route after a payment settles through the CDP facilitator, so the lone payer behind most listings is probably the seller's own test call. Supply is not the bottleneck in this market. Buyers are. I tagged resources by keywords in their URL and description. The categories overlap, and keyword tagging is crude, so read these as directions rather than measurements: Category (keyword match) Resources Mean payers Share with 10+ payers Chain data / RPC (balance, block, gas, tx, wallet, contract...) 7,288 4.01 2.1% Novelty (jokes, facts, coin flips, horoscopes...) 3,949 3.43 1.4% News / social 1,477 2.62 1.9% Web search / scrape 4,656 2.44 1.2% Prices / markets 12,141 2.19 0.9% LLM / inference 2,366 2.12 0.9% Token risk / safety 3,351 1.87 0.5% Two things surprised me: Plain chain reads beat clever products. The most-paid host after one outlier is api.onesource.io, whose routes are thin wrappers over eth_getBalance, eth_blockNumber, balanceOf and eth_getLogs, priced at $0.001-$0.008. Each of its top routes had 200-560 distinct payers in 30 days. Meanwhile 3,351 token-risk and "safety" listings average fewer than two payers. Everyone is building the trust layer, and few agents are buying it. Novelty endpoints outsell most serious ones. Single-route Ve

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What I Learned Building a Funding Rate Comparison Tool (and Where Exchange APIs Get Weird)

I built a small tool that compares perpetual funding rates across five exchanges. The project was straightforward until it wasn't. Here's what I learned about crypto exchange APIs — the parts nobody documents. Not all exchanges return data in the same order Binance's funding history endpoint returns entries oldest-first. Bybit's returns newest-first. Assume one ordering and half your data is wrong for weeks without noticing. The fix: python Geo-blocking is real and deliberate Binance and Bybit both block requests from cloud infrastructure. GitHub Actions (Azure IPs), Cloudflare Workers, AWS — all blocked. The response codes vary: Binance returns HTTP 451 with a "Service unavailable from a restricted location" message; Bybit returns HTTP 403 through their CloudFront distribution with "The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country." This isn't a bug. It's an anti-scraping policy. The workaround is to use exchanges that don't geo-block cloud IPs — OKX, MEXC, Hyperliquid, Gate.io, Bitget all work fine. I tried a Cloudflare Worker proxy to route around the block. It worked for Bybit from my laptop but failed from the GitHub Actions runner. Eventually I dropped both exchanges and added five that don't block us. Funding intervals vary widely Most exchanges use 8-hour funding. Some use 4-hour. Hyperliquid uses 1-hour. If you annualize assuming 8 hours across the board, you're wrong by a factor of 8 on Hyperliquid. The correct formula uses the venue's own interval: python Always verify response shapes before writing the parser I nearly shipped a version that used a single per-symbol rate and four fee assumptions to compute "venue-specific" funding. It would have told users "Binance is the best venue" when the conclusion came from Binance's assumed fee, not its actual rate. The fix: fetch real per-venue data. Which meant verifying every endpoint's response shape before writing the parser. It sounds tedious. It saves you from shipping misle

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