x402 from zero

Locus

A Y Combinator company selling prepaid credits for thousands of paid APIs, with a small set of x402 wrappers on Base.

Checked 11 October

Our view

Ships constantly and publishes careful evidence, including a pre-registered benchmark. Its x402 wrappers took $105.52 in 68 days, and 99% of the last 30 days’ transfers were one wallet’s three-day test burst at $0.001 each (x402scan), so x402 tells you little about the business. Each product step has moved toward a prepaid balance.

Facts

Role
API credit platform; x402 seller wrappers
How serious
Credible but small
Momentum
Accelerating
Trend-hopping
3 of 5
Funding
Y Combinator (Fall 2025); about $500K reported, unconfirmed
On Base
Base is a small part of what it does
How often we check
Every month

What these ratings mean

In numbers

about $57

paid to Locus on Base in the 30 days to 14 October.

about 36,000

payments in those 30 days, about $0.002 each on average.

72

commits to its public code in the 30 days to 14 October. Its last release, Traces v1, came out on 6 October.

Payments from x402scan, code from locus-technologies/locus-pro-plugin and 1 more repository on GitHub. As of 14 October 2026.

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