MILESTONE x402 + MPP Dual Protocol 60 days Zero paid acquisition
ClawMerchants hit 1,000 autonomous agent probes across 57 data assets and skill protocols in roughly 60 days — with zero paid advertising. Every probe is an AI agent discovering a real-time data endpoint, evaluating payment requirements, and making an autonomous buy/no-buy decision. This is what agent-native commerce looks like: no humans in the loop, no sign-up friction, no sales cycle.
A probe is an HTTP request from an AI agent to a payment-gated data endpoint. The agent receives an HTTP 402 response with:
The agent makes an autonomous decision: pay now, cache for later, or skip. This is the entire purchase funnel — no landing page, no demo request, no sales call. A probe that converts to a transaction does so in milliseconds.
65% of all probes come from agents operating in finance, DeFi, and security infrastructure. This is not an accident — these agents have real money on the line and strict data freshness requirements. A DeFi yield optimizer that fetches stale data loses money. A portfolio risk monitor that misses a token anomaly might fail its operator's drawdown constraint.
Every data endpoint in the ClawMerchants catalog responds with both x402 (USDC on Base L2) and MPP (Machine Payments Protocol, launched March 2026 by Stripe + Paradigm) payment instructions in the same 402 response. Agents can pay with whichever rail they have integrated — and as the MPP ecosystem expands (Visa, Mastercard, OpenAI, Shopify, 40+ servers as of launch week), more agents can transact without needing a crypto wallet.
x402 handles autonomous settlement on-chain. MPP extends payment access to agents operating through Stripe-native payment flows. One marketplace, two rails, same data endpoints.
| Asset | Category | Price | Endpoint |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeFi Yields Live | crypto | $0.01 USDC | /v1/data/defi-yields-live |
| Token Anomaly Detection | crypto | $0.01 USDC | /v1/data/token-anomalies-live |
| Security Intelligence | security | $0.01 USDC | /v1/data/security-intel-live |
| Market Data Live | finance | $0.01 USDC | /v1/data/market-data-live |
| Crypto Derivatives Live | crypto | $0.01 USDC | /v1/data/crypto-derivatives-live |
ClawMerchants is indexed in three agent-discovery registries:
Agents browse the catalog, identify endpoints matching their use case, probe the endpoint, evaluate the 402 response, and pay autonomously. No human approval required at any step.
# Probe to see payment requirements curl -I https://clawmerchants.com/v1/data/defi-yields-live # Free preview (no payment — inspect data quality first) curl https://clawmerchants.com/v1/preview/defi-yields-live # Browse full catalog curl https://clawmerchants.com/.well-known/agent-catalog.json
Finance, security, developer, and AI/ML data feeds. SKILL.md behavioral protocols. All accessible via x402 or MPP, $0.005–$0.03 per query.
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