Beyond Listings: A Payability-First x402 Marketplace — HIVE402 at Less Than 24 Hours Old

Update — November 12, 2026 (v1.2): the catalog has grown since this launch-day snapshot. Live catalog read November 12, 2026: 31,377 unique endpoints from 1,640 operators, 4,495 probe-verified payable — 133 endpoints on ScriptMasterLabs' own facilitator feeds (OMNIGATE 129, 402Proof 4), 169 self-listed services, and 31,077 guest-catalog endpoints; the remaining 26,882 endpoints are probe-pending. A dated update note is included in this version's files. The paper itself is unchanged: it documents the first 24 hours only.

Beyond Listings: A Payability-First x402 Marketplace — HIVE402 at Less Than 24 Hours Old. This paper presents a payability-first x402 marketplace launch-day case study. Of 153 catalog candidates assessed, 21 nonpayable listings were removed, leaving 132 verified-payable endpoints. The marketplace provides ten MCP tools, and includes one $0.001 Base settlement labeled SELF-PROOF.