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x402 seller gotchas, part 5: a price list that lied, free RPCs that ran out, and an agent that said "full scan"

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In part 1 we listed what broke while selling small services over x402 (pay per request, USDC on Base), and in part 4 we found that our first buyers were robots. This week was less about buyers and more about our own tools telling us things that were not true: a price list, a data source, and our ow…

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  1. 2026-10-28 11:33 · DEV Community — AI
    x402 seller gotchas, part 5: a price list that lied, free RPCs that ran out, and an agent that said "full scan"

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