How fresh are x402 health labels?
Answered from the issue named below, as published on its date. A later issue is a later answer, at its own address.
The answer
The strongest cadence claims in the field sit beside counters that do not support them — or beside no counter at all (each provider's own published words beside its own published counter, all read 2026-09-01):
An old observation is not necessarily a wrong one — a label can be weeks old and still true.
The sentence above is quoted from a published issue and is not re-written here. Its date, its population and the record behind it are below.
What this does not say
- Third-party figures are those providers' own published numbers, quoted with their own denominators and the date we read them. They are not our measurements of those providers.
The evidence
What ran, when, and the record it produced.
| What ran | When | Record |
|---|---|---|
| One dated read of every third-party number this issue quotes, taken from each provider's own published surface with an identifying user agent, each response hashed and excerpted so the quotation can be checked against what was actually served. | 53dbfbc27286e3e303caa0a9bbe804b851883f4f04e608537f9a0b1ff280ed12 |
- Sealed days behind the archive figures
- 11
- Observations in that window
- 29,022
- Issue
- Machine Commerce Reality Index: #001 — August 2026
- Published
The terms
The terms this question uses are defined in the glossary.
Corrections and disputes
This answer names a party we measure. The route to dispute a reading is on the corrections page.
Corrections to this issue are on the corrections register, and this answer reads from the record rather than from a copy.