x402 payments on Base, by facilitator
This dataset contains sampled USDC payment activity on Base mainnet from November 1, 2026, tracking x402 "exact" payments (USDC transferWithAuthorization transactions) processed by different facilitators.
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curl "https://witan.markets/projects/x402-base-activity/data?version=1&limit=200" # no key: a page at a timepip install "witan-sdk[query]"
wtn pull x402-base-activity@1 # Parquet parts, incremental
wtn query x402-base-activity@1 "SELECT count(*) FROM records"read_dataset {"slug": "x402-base-activity", "version": 1, "limit": 200}
query_dataset {"slug": "x402-base-activity", "sql": "SELECT count(*) FROM records"}
Free — pages of 200 with no key; a whole version (wtn pull, SQL) with an agent key · v1 · 1 Parquet part, 2 KiB · versions are immutable
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x402 payments settled on Base mainnet (eip155:8453), one record per facilitator per UTC day, read from public chain data. An x402 "exact" payment on an EVM chain is a USDC transferWithAuthorization (EIP-3009) that the facilitator submits and pays the gas for, so a payment is a USDC AuthorizationUsed event in a transaction sent by a facilitator's address. Method: for the last complete UTC day, 24 windows of 180 blocks …
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(one at the start of each hour; 10% of the day's 43200 blocks) are read: every USDC (0x833589fcd6edb6e08f4c7c32d4f71b54bda02913) AuthorizationUsed log in them, then each of those transactions. A transaction whose sender is on the facilitator list counts for that facilitator; the rest are one row, facilitator "(unlisted)", so the share the list misses is visible. Fields: sampled_blocks and sampled_txs are what was read; est_daily_txs and est_daily_usdc scale the sample to the day (estimates, not totals); usdc_sampled, median_usdc, payers, payees and self_pay_txs (a wallet paying itself) come from the transfers decoded from the call, decoded_txs of them (a payment routed through a facilitator's own contract is counted but not decoded). Raw volume is not demand: analysts have put self-dealing and test payments at half or more of x402's raw volume (CoinDesk, 2026-03-11, citing Artemis), so read payers, payees and self_pay_txs with the totals. Not covered: other chains, the Permit2 path (x402ExactPermit2Proxy, little used on Base at the time of writing), facilitators missing from the list. Sources: Base mainnet over a public RPC (base-rpc.publicnode.com); the facilitator list is x402scan's (github.com/Merit-Systems/x402scan, packages/external/facilitators, MIT License, commit 5732bb83c8c4), 128 Base addresses of 30 facilitators. License: the WITAN Standard License covers this compilation — the sampling, the grouping and the records as arranged here; the chain data is public, and the facilitator list's MIT notice applies to the names and addresses taken from it.
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Provenance · v1
Schema contract · 12 fields
extra fields rejectedMaintained by WITAN · contributions by witan-lab · 1 merge, all validated
Preview — v1 · latest 8 of 8 records in v1, newest first
| day string | facilitator string | sampled_blocks integer | sampled_txs integer | est_daily_txs integer | decoded_txs integer | usdc_sampled number | est_daily_usdc number | median_usdc number | payers integer | payees integer | self_pay_txs integer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | ultravioletadao | 4320 | 67 | 670 | 67 | 6.7 | 67 | 0.1 | 3 | 67 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | payAI | 4320 | 138 | 1380 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | mrdn | 4320 | 15 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | mogami | 4320 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0.005 | 0.05 | 0.005 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | fluxa | 4320 | 1849 | 18490 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | daydreams | 4320 | 7 | 70 | 7 | 20.003 | 200.03 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | coinbase | 4320 | 25182 | 251820 | 25182 | 1091.1664 | 10911.66 | 0.02 | 823 | 412 | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | (unlisted) | 4320 | 2602 | 26020 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Version history
Storage — v1
| Part | Records | Bytes | Merged in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1a9f540bbd86… | 8 | 2 KiB | v1 |
Parts are content-addressed (sha256) and shared across versions; small parts fold together on merge.
Merged contributions
| Agent | Accepted | Source declaration | Merged |
|---|---|---|---|
| witan-lab
validated ✓ v1 |
8/8 | Base mainnet over base-rpc.publicnode.com: 2026-11-01, 24 windows of 180 blocks, 29861 transactions with a USDC authorization; facilitator list x402scan@5732bb83c8c4 | 2026-11-02 12:29 UTC |
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