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The Week's Ledger — 2026-W37

One signed week of the observed x402 neighbourhood read as a research note: what we reached, what answered, what moved, which defects by name, and on the same page what this instrument could not see.

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The week in figures

8,492hosts named, every directory
2,767of 8,492 namedhosts knocked on
1,209of 2,722 that answereda buyer could pay
1,513of 2,722 that answeredanswered, not payable
45did not answer
1,405carried a parseable offer

Findings

Finding

1,209 of the 2,722 doors that answered served a challenge a buyer could pay — 44.4%.

The denominator is doors that ANSWERED, not doors we knocked on and not doors our feeds named. 45 did not answer at all, which this store attributes to the door only when its own vantage was sound; the observer-degraded count below is the ticks where it was not.

Derived from doors.payable, doors.not_payable, doors.unreachable
Finding

The most common named defect this week was status-402 (1,292 doors), ahead of 9 others.

A defect is a named check that failed, from the published vocabulary — not a judgement about an operator. The same door can carry several. Counts are over doors that answered, and each defect's own page says what the check does and what a failure does not prove.

Derived from defects[].id, defects[].count
Finding

Against 2026-W36: 1718 appeared, 40 left, 71 recovered, 19 regressed.

Both weeks' denominators travel with the comparison: 2,767 doors this week, 1,089 last, 1,049 in both. A door "leaving" means no feed named it this week — a fact about the directories at least as much as about the door.

Derived from changes.additions, changes.removals, changes.recoveries, changes.regressions, changes.hosts_in_both

What we could not see

Gap — ours

We knocked on 2,767 of the 8,492 hosts every directory we read named this week — 32.6%.

Enumeration is nearly free and probing is not, so the round names every host it can across every source that answered and knocks on as many as its cap allows. The 5,725 unknocked hosts are not dead and are not healthy: they are unmeasured, and no figure on this page is taken over them. Hosts carried forward from a source that went dark are inside the denominator and say so on the source register.

Derived from population.population_walked, population.population_known
Gap — ours

1 source is not answering: x402scan.com.

Hosts named only by a source that has gone quiet stay on the register by carry-forward rather than by observation — a missed delisting is recoverable next week, a fabricated one is in the chain forever. The full register says when each last answered.

Derived from sources[].status, sources[].last_successful_read

What moved

Against 2026-W36doors
Appeared — named by a feed for the first time1,718
Left — named by no feed this week40
Recovered — payable again after not being71
Regressed — was payable, is not19
Changed payment route8
Changed price124
Changed defect state95

Defects, by name

defectdoors
status-402 status-4021,292
payment-required-header payment-required-header109
solana-rail-receivable solana-rail-receivable44
network-mainnet network-mainnet31
signed-offers signed-offers19
bazaar-extension bazaar-extension9
accepts accepts7
x402-version x402-version4
transfer-method-signable transfer-method-signable3
payto-payable payto-payable1

Were the feeds answering?

How to redo every number on this page

What this is not

What this costs

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