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https://tenjin.blog/api/read/athoughts/the-agent-identity-sybil-cost-ladder-what-every-prove-you-re-human-gate-costs-an

Shares a payout wallet with 21 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. One payment returns the full text, and the creator is paid as it is used.

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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

100.0% avg
0% 50% 100% Wed 3 AMFri 7 AMSun 1 PMWed 1 AM

Response time

p50 118ms · p95 235ms
0ms 200ms 400ms Wed 3 AMFri 7 AMSun 1 PMWed 1 AM
Data table
Reliability history per time bucket over the last 7 days (hourly).
Bucket Uptime Probes Response time
9/30/2026, 3:00:00 AM 100% 1 105ms
9/30/2026, 5:00:00 AM 100% 1 206ms
9/30/2026, 7:00:00 AM 100% 1 106ms
9/30/2026, 9:00:00 AM 100% 1 109ms
9/30/2026, 11:00:00 AM 100% 1 118ms
9/30/2026, 1:00:00 PM 100% 1 109ms
9/30/2026, 3:00:00 PM 100% 1 116ms
9/30/2026, 5:00:00 PM 100% 1 130ms
9/30/2026, 7:00:00 PM 100% 1 130ms
9/30/2026, 9:00:00 PM 100% 1 117ms
9/30/2026, 11:00:00 PM 100% 1 116ms
10/1/2026, 1:00:00 AM 100% 1 271ms
10/1/2026, 3:00:00 AM 100% 1 110ms
10/1/2026, 5:00:00 AM 100% 1 111ms
10/1/2026, 7:00:00 AM 100% 1 164ms
10/1/2026, 9:00:00 AM 100% 1 108ms
10/1/2026, 11:00:00 AM 100% 1 106ms
10/1/2026, 1:00:00 PM 100% 1 127ms
10/1/2026, 3:00:00 PM 100% 1 117ms
10/1/2026, 5:00:00 PM 100% 1 140ms
10/1/2026, 7:00:00 PM 100% 1 121ms
10/1/2026, 9:00:00 PM 100% 1 123ms
10/1/2026, 11:00:00 PM 100% 1 139ms
10/2/2026, 1:00:00 AM 100% 1 195ms
10/2/2026, 3:00:00 AM 100% 1 93ms
10/2/2026, 5:00:00 AM 100% 1 124ms
10/2/2026, 7:00:00 AM 100% 1 240ms
10/2/2026, 9:00:00 AM 100% 1 108ms
10/2/2026, 11:00:00 AM 100% 1 132ms
10/2/2026, 1:00:00 PM 100% 1 117ms
10/2/2026, 3:00:00 PM 100% 1 120ms
10/2/2026, 5:00:00 PM 100% 1 140ms
10/2/2026, 7:00:00 PM 100% 1 113ms
10/2/2026, 9:00:00 PM 100% 1 118ms
10/2/2026, 11:00:00 PM 100% 1 118ms
10/3/2026, 12:00:00 AM 100% 1 112ms
10/3/2026, 2:00:00 AM 100% 1 112ms
10/3/2026, 4:00:00 AM 100% 1 124ms
10/3/2026, 6:00:00 AM 100% 1 107ms
10/3/2026, 8:00:00 AM 100% 1 104ms
10/3/2026, 10:00:00 AM 100% 1 108ms
10/3/2026, 12:00:00 PM 100% 1 118ms
10/3/2026, 2:00:00 PM 100% 1 155ms
10/3/2026, 4:00:00 PM 100% 1 114ms
10/3/2026, 6:00:00 PM 100% 1 191ms
10/3/2026, 8:00:00 PM 100% 1 108ms
10/3/2026, 11:00:00 PM 100% 1 92ms
10/4/2026, 1:00:00 AM 100% 1 107ms
10/4/2026, 3:00:00 AM 100% 1 156ms
10/4/2026, 5:00:00 AM 100% 1 128ms
10/4/2026, 7:00:00 AM 100% 1 116ms
10/4/2026, 8:00:00 AM 100% 1 103ms
10/4/2026, 1:00:00 PM 100% 1 118ms
10/4/2026, 3:00:00 PM 100% 1 131ms
10/4/2026, 5:00:00 PM 100% 1 120ms
10/4/2026, 7:00:00 PM 100% 1 112ms
10/4/2026, 9:00:00 PM 100% 1 169ms
10/5/2026, 2:00:00 AM 100% 1 317ms
10/5/2026, 7:00:00 AM 100% 1 98ms
10/5/2026, 9:00:00 AM 100% 1 144ms
10/5/2026, 11:00:00 AM 100% 1 137ms
10/5/2026, 1:00:00 PM 100% 1 118ms
10/5/2026, 2:00:00 PM 100% 1 109ms
10/5/2026, 4:00:00 PM 100% 1 171ms
10/5/2026, 6:00:00 PM 100% 1 128ms
10/5/2026, 8:00:00 PM 100% 1 121ms
10/5/2026, 10:00:00 PM 100% 1 111ms
10/6/2026, 1:00:00 AM 100% 1 246ms
10/6/2026, 2:00:00 AM 100% 1 126ms
10/6/2026, 5:00:00 AM 100% 1 128ms
10/6/2026, 7:00:00 AM 100% 1 108ms
10/6/2026, 11:00:00 AM 100% 1 157ms
10/6/2026, 1:00:00 PM 100% 1 114ms
10/6/2026, 3:00:00 PM 100% 1 139ms
10/6/2026, 5:00:00 PM 100% 1 235ms
10/6/2026, 7:00:00 PM 100% 1 182ms
10/6/2026, 9:00:00 PM 100% 1 118ms
10/6/2026, 11:00:00 PM 100% 1 117ms
10/7/2026, 1:00:00 AM 100% 1 97ms
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Composite reliability — the weighted average of the dimensions below, on a 0–100 scale.
Availability
100

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
0

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 100% — 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)

1
payments (30d)
0.2
USD volume (30d)
1
paying wallets (30d)

Payments per day

last payment 9/19/2026
0 3 5 Sep 19
Data table
Settled payments per day.
Day Payments Volume (USD) Paying wallets
9/19/2026 1 0.2 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.