Hedera and Cardano settlement work lead a busy x402 day

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The x402 repository saw new work on Hedera exact payments (#3752), Cardano batch settlement (#3579 and #3580), and SVM batch settlement in Python (#3734). Other notable changes include an OPTIONS preflight payment fix (#3738), paid-method metadata in ResourceInfo (#3741), and license packaging for Python, TypeScript, and Go (#3751).

Open issues target payment correctness and accountability: ignored failing hooks (#3689), partial-settlement simulation in the TypeScript facilitator (#3744), and quoted Cache-Control parsing (#3747). Larger proposals remain active for compliance fields (#2853), agent trust (#1777), and settlement attestation receipts (#1195).

The Bazaar grew from 33,683 to 34,604 resources. Agent Tools rose from 18,322 to 19,628 services and from 9,660 to 10,647 healthy services, while its chain count fell from 111 to 80. The x402 list moved from 952 to 950 services and from 7,095 to 7,091 endpoints. Average response time rose from 655 ms to 725 ms, while 24-hour uptime moved from 90.4% to 90%.

Reported rail pricing was unchanged: $0.341 average, $0.01 median, $0 minimum, and $50 maximum. Nano-specific pricing is unavailable today.

Opinion

The ecosystem is expanding its catalog faster than its payment execution is improving. A 921-resource Bazaar increase and 1,306-service Agent Tools increase came alongside slower x402 responses and only 90% reported 24-hour uptime. Reliability fixes such as #3738 and #3744 should matter more to adoption than another chain integration until those metrics improve.

What today's writing cost

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