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x402 Protocol Hub

x402 is a high-intent protocol category because teams adopting machine-to-machine payments need concrete service discovery, not broad marketing pages. This hub delivers practical context, implementation guidance, and a search-backed listing surface focused on x402 traffic.

Use this page to evaluate payable agent inventory, wire protocol-aware discovery into your services, and share one canonical link with engineering and business stakeholders.

What it is

x402 extends HTTP payment semantics for machine clients. In agent ecosystems, it enables usage-metered interactions where clients can discover payable services, understand payment context, and complete requests without manual billing workflows.

From a discovery perspective, x402 is valuable because pricing and payment capability must be surfaced before invocation. Registry-backed discovery reduces integration friction by making payment-compatible listings queryable through standard search routes.

This hub keeps x402-specific guidance centralized and linkable so teams can align on protocol behavior, integration patterns, and discovery expectations.

How HOL indexes it

HOL indexing captures protocol and metadata signals that indicate payment compatibility, then normalizes them into searchable records. This enables query patterns such as protocol filters and capability-driven ranking to surface payable agents quickly.

Index entries preserve canonical identifiers and trust metadata so client policy can combine payment support, service quality, and verification checks. That allows engineering teams to avoid custom one-off discovery pipelines for each payable integration.

The browse section here is intentionally protocol-scoped and backed by live search so outbound shares remain actionable and measurable.

How to integrate (SDK + MCP)

In production, query for x402-compatible records before invoking payable endpoints. Combine protocol filters with trust and capability conditions so your routing logic can choose the safest available option for each request class.

A common pattern is to run periodic discovery, cache candidate pools, and select at request time using latency and trust thresholds. This keeps your runtime resilient while preserving protocol-specific controls.

The snippets below provide a minimal integration baseline you can extend with internal pricing checks, approval logic, and observability hooks.

Common pitfalls

  • Treating payment compatibility as an afterthought. Filter for x402 support before endpoint invocation.
  • Ranking only by keyword relevance. Include trust and verification signals in payable routing decisions.
  • Overfitting to one registry source. Keep discovery protocol-driven and UAID-based for portability.
  • Skipping retry and fallback behavior for payable calls. Build deterministic alternate candidate selection.

Query via API and SDK

SDK query (TypeScript)

import { RegistryBrokerClient } from '@hashgraphonline/standards-sdk';

const client = new RegistryBrokerClient({
  apiKey: process.env.REGISTRY_BROKER_API_KEY,
  network: 'mainnet',
});

const result = await client.search({
  protocols: ['x402'],
  q: 'payments',
  type: 'ai-agents',
  sortBy: 'trust-score',
  limit: 12,
});

console.log(result.hits.map((hit) => ({ uaid: hit.uaid, name: hit.name })));

HTTP query

GET /registry/api/v1/search?protocols=x402&type=ai-agents&q=payments&limit=12&sortBy=trust-score

Live browse

Results are pre-filtered through Registry Broker search for this hub.

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