{"valid":true,"artifact_class":"ecosystem_report","store_identity":{"name":"SCVD General Store","what":"A human-run general store selling small signed goods to autonomous agents, paid in USDC over x402 v2 on a network offered in the current payment quote (see /rails). Also a free conformance desk that checks any issuer's x402 offers and receipts, including stores it competes with.","homepage":"https://scvd.store","verify":"Anyone can check this artifact without asking us and without an account: https://scvd.store/api/verify/{id}, free and permanent. The signing key is at https://scvd.store/.well-known/scvd-signing-key, and the offline verifier is MIT-licensed. The conformance desk is POST https://scvd.store/api/conformance/v1 — send any issuer's x402 signed offer or receipt, ours or not.","feedback":"What this store's clients said about it, at an address this store cannot write to: ERC-8004 agent 86957 in the Reputation Registry at 0x8004BAa17C55a88189AE136b182e5fdA19dE9b63 on Base (eip155:8453). Buyers write from their own addresses; the contract rejects the agent owner, so none of it is ours. Read it with getClients, or leave your own — the call and a pre-filled proof-of-payment ride every purchase response. This store turns none of it into a number, about itself or anyone.","rights":"You own what you bought outright and owe this store no credit for it. This block is here so the artifact can explain itself to whoever holds it next, not because attribution is required — see /rights."},"store_links":{"store":{"name":"SCVD General Store","homepage":"https://scvd.store","llms_txt":"https://scvd.store/llms.txt","agents_md":"https://scvd.store/agents.md","menu_json":"https://scvd.store/menu.json","openapi_json":"https://scvd.store/openapi.json","skill_md":"https://scvd.store/skill.md","developers":"https://scvd.store/developers","verify_url_template":"https://scvd.store/api/verify/{id}","signing_key":"https://scvd.store/.well-known/scvd-signing-key","preflight":"https://scvd.store/api/preflight/v1","conformance_desk":"https://scvd.store/api/conformance/v1"},"next":[],"derivation":"next is derived, never typed: items that share a use_when recipe with this one (menu.json use_when), the deeper rung of the room this path belongs to, the settlement observation for the transaction just settled, and the instrument this host's own tier picks. In derivation order, then the catalogue's order; never by price, never by sales, never a ranking. store is the same roster on every envelope this store serves."},"report_url":"https://scvd.store/api/report/x402-ecosystem-2026-08","signature":"f44027893f905eeab9b79aed28d61ad755f2c69c9c28c4c617886e5a63ae7f69d2e7a77a1be31780b3a16aed87a94b74e0cdc47b5270f8e232c93f583494eb0c","public_key":"8c22f61add201ecefa75c5d027371b64bed3c0ff739056a7b255f8322ffcb550","signed_by":{"public_key":"8c22f61add201ecefa75c5d027371b64bed3c0ff739056a7b255f8322ffcb550","status":"current","means":"Signed with the key this store publishes today. Check it against /.well-known/scvd-signing-key."},"algorithm":"ed25519","signed_payload":"{\"report_id\":\"x402-ecosystem-2026-08\",\"title\":\"The x402 ecosystem, walked with a wallet: August 2026\",\"published\":\"2026-08-19\",\"body_sha256\":\"aebd374e90e914ed8a90a9064405d31acbc31850bbeabb2b906a4b573f6da018\",\"method_governed_by\":\"WALKABOUT.md at the repository root\",\"evidence\":\"research/field-run-2026-08-18/ in the same repository\",\"bitcoin_anchor\":\"anchored via OpenTimestamps: body_sha256 is submitted to public calendars and committed into Bitcoin; live status and proof in this artifact's ots field (anchoring live as of 2026-08-19)\"}","artifact_hash":"8b05c53d4d43e5299f2d39d2728773efd7eba9eabcc0818807e0dcc51700ec0a","signature_covers":"signed_payload is the exact UTF-8 string the signature covers: ed25519_verify(utf8(signed_payload), hex_to_bytes(signature), hex_to_bytes(public_key)). The body_sha256 inside it binds the full report body served at report_url — hash that body yourself and compare; nothing in the report is outside the digest.","cite":"scvd.store, ecosystem report x402-ecosystem-2026-08, observation date not stated; ed25519-signed, key at https://scvd.store/.well-known/scvd-signing-key; bytes at https://scvd.store/api/report/x402-ecosystem-2026-08; verify at https://scvd.store/api/verify/x402-ecosystem-2026-08.","cite_format":"One line to quote verbatim: the issuer, what and which, when it was observed, how it is signed and where the key is, and the URL whose bytes are the thing cited. A citation names an observation, never a judgment."}