x402base-sepoliaquality 0.35

Pay-per-access IPFS content via x402 on Pinata gateway (Base Sepolia testnet)

Price
0.001 USDC / call
Protocol
x402
Verified
no

What it does

This endpoint serves IPFS-pinned content behind an x402 paywall on a Pinata dedicated gateway. The resource is identified by the CID `bafkreifqwob76i3msvcy7i5cevl7vjuode2kezzumvjxudnoarbuvwnw3y` and returns `application/json` data upon successful payment. The x402 challenge requires an exact-scheme payment of 1000 base units of USDC (0.001 USDC) on the Base Sepolia testnet, settled to the address `0x387b8264c40FDF64dCc78598246892f3CF3829B6`.

Pinata is an IPFS pinning and gateway service. This particular gateway (`peach.mypinata.cloud`) is a dedicated Pinata gateway configured with x402 payment gating. The root of the gateway returns a 403 with a message indicating the content is not publicly pinned, which is expected behavior for a paywalled gateway. No documentation, OpenAPI spec, or additional metadata is available from the gateway itself, so the exact nature of the JSON payload behind the paywall is unknown.

Because the asset contract (`0x036CbD53842c5426634e7929541eC2318f3dCF7e`) is USDC on Base Sepolia (a testnet), this endpoint is likely intended for development, testing, or demonstration purposes rather than production use. The cost per request is effectively negligible at $0.001 USDC.

Capabilities

x402-paywallipfs-content-deliverypinata-gatewaybase-sepolia-testnetusdc-paymentjson-response

Use cases

  • Accessing paywalled IPFS-pinned JSON content via micropayment
  • Testing x402 payment flows against a live IPFS gateway
  • Demonstrating pay-per-access decentralized content delivery

Fit

Best for

  • Developers testing x402 payment integration on Base Sepolia
  • Accessing specific paywalled IPFS content hosted on Pinata
  • Experimenting with micropayment-gated decentralized storage

Not for

  • Production payment flows (this is on Base Sepolia testnet)
  • Browsing or discovering arbitrary IPFS content
  • High-throughput bulk data retrieval

Quick start

curl -X GET \
  -H "X-Payment: <x402-payment-token>" \
  https://peach.mypinata.cloud/x402/cid/bafkreifqwob76i3msvcy7i5cevl7vjuode2kezzumvjxudnoarbuvwnw3y

Endpoint

Transporthttp
Protocolx402
Pay to0x387b8264c40FDF64dCc78598246892f3CF3829B6
CurrencyUSDC

Quality

0.35/ 1.00

The endpoint is live and returns a valid x402 challenge, but there is no documentation, no OpenAPI schema, no description of the payload behind the paywall, and the crawl yielded only error pages. The testnet-only settlement and single-CID scope further limit utility. Effectively a stub listing.

Warnings

  • No documentation or OpenAPI spec available from the gateway
  • The payload behind the paywall is unknown — no description field was provided in the x402 challenge
  • Settlement is on Base Sepolia (testnet), not a production network
  • The gateway root returns 403; all other crawled paths return errors
  • Single CID endpoint — unclear if other CIDs are also paywalled on this gateway

Citations

Provenance

Indexed fromx402_bazaar
Enriched2026-04-18 21:06:26Z · anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 · v2
First seen2026-04-18
Last seen2026-04-22

Agent access

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