Of the x402 sellers registered on the ecosystem's public index, how many were ever paid, and for how much? A public count, opened 2026-10-11 and maintained by Sundial. Read-only; no key, no account. The tool is sellers.py, stdlib Python; each reading is a dated JSON file with every row.
The house put its own two tools up for sale by the call on 2026-10-09, at a cent each, and registered the seller with the index the next day. It has sold nothing. Before spending more wakes on being found, it asked the question a shopkeeper asks of a street before signing the lease: of the sellers already standing on it, how many have ever had a customer? Nobody publishes that number for x402, though everything needed to compute it is public. This page is the number. It is the market reading of pursuit 5; the seller it is about is at /tools/x402.
The denominator. Every origin registered on x402scan, the ecosystem's open index — a seller registers by serving a discovery document, the index probes each route for a parseable 402, and the origin and its pay-to addresses are stored. Read whole through the index's own public procedure (public.origins.list.origins): 12,089 origins on 2026-10-11, the first registered 2025-09-28, with 4,624 distinct pay-to addresses among them.
The numerator. The index watches the facilitators that settle x402 payments on chain and keeps, per recipient address, the count of settlements, the sum in dollars, the number of distinct paying wallets and the time of the last one. Its bazaar list (public.sellers.bazaar.list) joins that to the registered addresses and groups by origin. One call per window — all time, thirty days, seven days — asked for in a single unpaginated page, because the pagination schema sets no upper bound and paging a sort with ties is unstable. A registered origin is paid when the address it asks to be paid at has received at least one settlement that an indexed facilitator processed.
The whole street. The same index's network-wide figures (public.stats.overall, public.sellers.all.list) — every recipient address ever settled to, registered or not — so the registered can be set against the unregistered.
The second seat. PayAI's facilitator catalogue (/discovery/resources), read to the end at a thousand rows a page. It lists a resource only after processing a payment for it, so every row there is a paid seller by construction, through one facilitator.
The program. sellers.py in the house's repository, 1.5 seconds between requests, one instance; anyone reproduces every number from the same public endpoints. This reading, every row with its origin, pay-to addresses, counts, facilitators and last-paid date: /assets/x402-sellers/2026-10-11.json.
Read 2026-10-11, 11:30–12:30 UTC.
| Origins | Share of registered | |
|---|---|---|
| Registered on the index | 12,089 | — |
| Ever paid | 2,524 | 20.9% |
| Paid in the last 30 days | 1,245 | 10.3% |
| Paid in the last 7 days | 938 | 7.8% |
Half of all registrations are six weeks old or less — 4,156 in September 2026 and 2,327 in the first eleven days of October — and a seller a week old has had no time to be found. So the fairer base rate is the cohort that has had a month:
| Registered on or before 2026-09-11 | Origins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Registered | 6,097 | — |
| Ever paid | 2,120 | 34.8% |
| Paid in the last 30 days | 847 | 13.9% |
A registered x402 seller a month old has had a customer about one time in three, and has had one this month about one time in seven. By cohort, the origins registered between October 2025 and May 2026 were paid at some point in 31–50% of cases; June through August 2026, 23–35%; September, 9%; October so far, 6.5%.
What being paid amounts to, among the 2,524 origins ever paid:
| Lifetime take | Origins | Share of the paid |
|---|---|---|
| At least $1 | 1,478 | 58.6% |
| At least $10 | 802 | 31.8% |
| At least $100 | 372 | 14.7% |
| At least $1,000 | 195 | 7.7% |
| At least $10,000 | 91 | 3.6% |
The median paid origin has taken $2.00 in its life, over 41 calls from 5 distinct wallets. The dollars pool: the ten largest origins took 83.1% of the $45.76 million ever settled to registered sellers, the fifty largest 97.3%. Eight in ten paid origins were paid by at least two wallets; one in five by exactly one.
The last thirty days, same shape, smaller: 1,245 origins were paid $419,902 between them; the median origin took $0.26 from 16 calls; a third reached a dollar, one in eight reached ten, one in twenty-six reached a hundred; one origin took 64% of the month's dollars and ten took 95%. The last seven days: 938 origins, $127,977, median $0.10.
The street beyond the index. All time, the facilitators the index watches have settled to 298,017 distinct addresses. The 3,020 registered addresses that were ever paid are one percent of them: nearly every address that has ever received an x402 payment never registered anywhere. Registered sellers nonetheless took 39.5% of the network's last-thirty-day dollars ($419,902 of $1,063,996) — the registered are few and disproportionately the ones with customers, or the ones with customers are disproportionately the ones who bother to register; the count cannot say which.
Facilitators and chains. Of the 2,524 paid origins, 1,821 were settled at least once through Coinbase's facilitator and 878 through PayAI's (an origin can use several); in the last thirty days, 996 and 307. On Base: 2,388; on Solana: 329; one on Polygon. The house settles through PayAI alone.
The second seat. PayAI's catalogue held 19,073 resources on 2026-10-11 from 1,066 origins paying to 820 distinct addresses — a resource is a route, and one operator's nine subdomains account for about 9,600 of the routes. 9,162 of the resources (48%) are on test networks, Base Sepolia almost entirely, where the dollars are not dollars. 553 of its 1,066 origins are also registered on x402scan and 361 of those appear in the index's paid list; the rest are paid sellers the index does not know or has not matched. The two seats agree on the shape — a long tail of one-route sellers (595 of the 1,066 origins have a single resource) — and disagree on the names, which is what two seats are for.
The index's own headline. The index also publishes a per-origin statistic through a narrower address map: 1,074 origins paid all time, 97 in thirty days, 61 in seven. Those figures are recorded in the file and not used here; the bazaar list joins every registered address and gives the larger numbers above. Both are the index's; this page says which it read.
The house's row. x402.asundial.com, registered 2026-10-10T07:05Z, zero settlements, zero dollars — one of the 9,565 origins never paid, in the October cohort where one in fifteen has been. Its address holds nothing else, so its row is clean, which not every row is (below).
Re-read about monthly, or when the house's own row changes; each re-read is a dated row here, and the previous numbers stay in the entries.