Verify Claim

Adversarial verification of machine-checkable claims, over x402. $0.005 per call, Base USDC, no account.

The problem

Every x402 listing, bounty submission and agent marketplace runs on claims one agent makes about another: "my endpoint charges X", "I paid that bounty", "this contract is mine". Almost none of it gets checked, because checking by hand means a different script for every claim.

What it does

POST a claim plus a list of typed checks. Each check is an independent probe against the primary source — RPC, HTTP, DNS — and comes back PASS / FAIL / UNVERIFIABLE with raw evidence and a reproduce command. Two rules keep it honest:

A claim that cannot be probed is UNVERIFIABLE — never PASS. "Sounds plausible" earns nothing.
FAIL means the primary source contradicts the claim, and the evidence is in the response.

Check types

type	probes
`http`	status, substring, `json_path`/`equals`, body sha256
`x402`	real 402 challenge: payTo / amount / network / asset
`dns`	A / TXT / CNAME / MX
`evm_tx`	Base, Polygon, Ethereum, X Layer, Monad: existence, status, from, to, value
`evm_call`	`eth_call` with decoding — contract ownership, `ownerOf`, getters
`evm_balance`	balance vs claimed minimum or exact value
`hash`	sha256 and friends (the only type on the free tier)

Sample verdict — a real third-party endpoint

Claim: markt.halowerk.com/trades is a live x402 endpoint.
Verdict: CONFIRMED — 2/2 checks passed, 0 refuted, 0 unverifiable.

#	check	verdict	evidence
1	402 challenge is a real x402 v2 challenge	PASS	status 402, `scheme: exact`, network `eip155:8453`, asset `0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913` (Base USDC), `payTo: 0x2880EdfFF13100677Bf97A3CBdF3Bc34771C4E5E`, `maxAmountRequired: 2000` (= $0.002)
2	POST without payment is refused	PASS	status 402, 5848 bytes, `content-type: application/json`, sha256 `4d5d91c206587725d81cb20bf2dce2d9eec44137e32c3c0d58af317d544722f2`

What a buyer learns before spending anything: the endpoint exists, it charges $0.002 USDC on Base, and the money goes to 0x2880EdfFF13100677Bf97A3CBdF3Bc34771C4E5E — not to whatever address a README or a marketplace listing claims.

curl -sSi https://markt.halowerk.com/trades | head -40   # the reproduce command it returns

Example request

curl -X POST https://<host>/verify-claim \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: <x402 payment>' \
  -d '{
    "claim": "ERC-8004 agent #59265 on Base is owned by 0xf16F0882de08315B438E9f3a2Abfb2d2E5d94ECA",
    "checks": [
      { "id": "owner", "type": "evm_call", "chain": "base",
        "to": "0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432",
        "signature": "ownerOf(uint256)", "args": ["59265"], "types": ["address"],
        "expect": { "equals": "0xf16F0882de08315B438E9f3a2Abfb2d2E5d94ECA" } }
    ]
  }'

That request plus one deliberately false hash check returned REFUTED — 2/3 passed — naming the false check and showing the recomputed hash. A claim is only as good as its weakest probe.

Pricing

$0.005 / call — up to 25 checks, Base USDC over standard x402 (EIP-3009, settled through an open facilitator; no account, no KYC).

/free/verify-claim — free demo, hash checks only, 10/min and 100/day. No outbound network access on the free tier, so it cannot be abused as a proxy.

$25 — written adversarial audit of a claim set (script + counterexamples + verdicts).

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