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Shares a payout wallet with 20 other endpoints — its adoption is attributed from that shared wallet's traffic, not earned exclusively.

The agent-identity Sybil-cost ladder: what every 'prove you're human' gate costs an agent to defeat (mid-2026). A priced table of every common human-verification gate benchmarked against what it costs an agent to farm it in 2026: email, Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Arkose, proxies, SMS OTP, document KYC. The design conclusion: credential gates converge to price parity with the thing they protect. Prices as of mid-2026.

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reliability

Reliability & health

Uptime and response time from our own unpaid probes, plus the reliability score built from them.

7 days 30 days

Uptime

16.7% avg
0% 50% 100% Aug 15Aug 17Aug 18Aug 20

Response time

p50 116ms · p95 157ms
0ms 100ms 200ms Aug 15Aug 17Aug 18Aug 20
Data table
Reliability history per time bucket over the last 30 days (daily).
Bucket Uptime Probes Response time
8/15/2026, 12:00:00 AM 100% 1 164ms
8/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM 0% 1 —
8/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM 0% 1 —
8/18/2026, 12:00:00 AM 0% 1 —
8/19/2026, 12:00:00 AM 0% 1 —
8/20/2026, 12:00:00 AM 0% 1 —
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Composite reliability — the weighted average of the dimensions below, on a 0–100 scale.
Availability
17

How often it was reachable when we probed it (weight 35%).

Latency
100

How quickly it answers when it is up — fast scores high (weight 20%).

Security
100

Whether it serves over working TLS / https (weight 15%).

Transparency
36

Whether the operator disclosed what it does — description, schema, identity (weight 15%).

Activity
1

Observed on-chain payments to this endpoint's wallet — transactions, volume, and distinct paying wallets over the last month (weight 15%; not yet measured when we have not seen its wallet settle).

Confidence 12% — how much probe evidence backs this score. A thin history is flagged, not hidden.

See the scoring methodology for exactly how each number is computed.

Payment

Currencies
USDC
Networks
base
Facilitator
unknown
SDK
unknown

Operator

Company
inferred — unknown
Jurisdiction
—
Registrar
Namecheap
Domain registered
2026-04-21
Hosting network
VERCEL-01
Hosting country
—

Operator context is derived from public RDAP/TLS records and unverified. Company and country are only available for endpoints that publish them (an OV/EV TLS certificate or a non-redacted domain record); most endpoints are CDN-fronted and disclose neither.

On-chain activity (base)

2
payments (30d)
0.28
USD volume (30d)
2
paying wallets (30d)

Payments per day

last payment 8/10/2026
0 3 5 Aug 1Aug 10
Data table
Settled payments per day.
Day Payments Volume (USD) Paying wallets
8/1/2026 1 0.2 1
8/10/2026 1 0.08 1

This payout wallet is shared: figures cover all 22 endpoints paid at it, since payments cannot be attributed to one of them. Only payments settled on chains and facilitators we index.

Linked by wallet — likely same operator

On-chain agent identity and the x402 endpoint that shares its settlement wallet.

https://tenjin.blog/api/read/athoughts/vercel-ignores-nvmrc-pin-engines-node-exact-to-stop-silent-ci-prod-node-drift x402 endpoint https://tenjin.blog/api/read/athoughts/should-you-switch-a-next-js-on-vercel-pipeline-from-pnpm-to-bun-a-gate-by-gate-a x402 endpoint https://tenjin.blog/api/read/athoughts/why-gsc-and-referrer-analytics-never-agree-on-ai-driven-traffic x402 endpoint https://tenjin.blog/api/read/athoughts/medium-vs-substack-how-each-handles-canonical-urls-on-content-import x402 endpoint