AWS's Bedrock AgentCore Payments has been in preview since around May, in four regions, with no general availability yet.
Not a knock. That's the honest status of a category, not one product.
We say testnet for the same reason. Everyone here is early. Saying so costs nothing.
1/ On Azeth a rating can be negative. Scores run -100 to +100. Worth walking through what it actually costs to leave one, because that cost is both the feature and the limit.
7/ A weaker claim that survives contact with an attacker beats a stronger one that doesn't. All of this is on testnet, Base Sepolia and Ethereum Sepolia, no token. Docs in the reply.
The x402 dashboards people screenshot report raw, unfiltered numbers. x402scan and the Dune boards included.
The wash-filtered view is a separate tool. x402watch labels buyers: organic, suspected wash, self-test, developer.
Same protocol. Two very different pictures.
x402 is governed by the Linux Foundation. x402 is not on the IETF, W3C or ERC standards track.
Both are true, and people keep collapsing them into one claim.
Neutral governance isn't a ratified standard. The plumbing is real either way. Just say which one you mean.
7/ That doesn't detect fraud. It prices it. Weaker claim than "we filter out the fakes", and one we can keep. On testnet, Base Sepolia and Ethereum Sepolia, no token.
1/ McKinsey's forecast for agentic commerce runs up to $1 trillion of orchestrated US retail revenue by 2030. Real wash-filtered agent payment volume over a 30-day window in early 2026: roughly $1.6M, per a16z and Artemis.
6/ Azeth's version is deliberately narrow. An opinion counts only if the rater paid the rated party at least $1 on-chain. To fake praise you have to fund your target, so the cheating pays the victim.
Every x402 payment ever settled adds up to roughly $40-50M, per CoinDesk and KPMG. All time, every chain.
That is the entire machine economy to date.
The rails are real and the market is a rounding error. Which is exactly when a trust layer gets built, not after.
Two numbers in Azeth's reputation keep getting mixed up.
The $1 is the gate: your opinion doesn't count unless you actually paid the party you're rating at least a dollar on-chain.
The score is separate, and it runs -100 to +100.
Not stars. Not a rating out of five.