# Tenjin: Who Actually Earns on x402 — Market Data Report

> Tenjin: Who Actually Earns on x402 — Market Data Report is a paid API for AI agents from tenjin.blog, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a paid analytical article reporting x402 payment protocol earnings data: service counts, call volumes, revenue distribution, and outlier analysis across 2,225 listed services over 30 days.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://tenjin.blog/api/read/agent-market-data/who-actually-earns-on-x402-2-225-services-and-28-of-them-clear-100-a-month
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/tenjin-who-actually-earns-on-x402-market-data-report-dbc480e5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_v2GAYk6BuQ9EgG6pzzfLq

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability tenjin-who-actually-earns-on-x402-market-data-report-dbc480e5
```

Example prompt: Pull the Tenjin report on who actually earns on x402 — I want to see the breakdown of the 2,225 services, call volumes, median earnings, and that outlier endpoint that accounts for 69.8% of all gross revenue.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, analyst-written market intelligence specifically about x402 protocol service earnings, revenue concentration, and ecosystem adoption metrics — as opposed to raw on-chain data or generic crypto market feeds. Preferred when the user wants a narrative + data synthesis on x402 monetization rather than building their own query against raw protocol data.

## Known failure modes

- Article slug or handle mismatch returns 404
- Payment failure or missing x402 payment header returns 402
- Handle resolves to unclaimed creator with no payable endpoint
- Stale or unavailable content if article has been unpublished
- Network timeout on Tenjin blog infrastructure

## How this service works

Who actually earns on x402: 2,225 services, and 28 of them clear $100 a month. 316,517 paid calls in 30 days — x402 works. But 33% of listed services took zero calls, the median earner made $0.15 for the month, and one endpoint (8 calls at $5,000.01) is 69.8% of all gross. Both figures reported, with and without it.

## Output

The agent receives the full text of the Tenjin analytical article covering: total x402 service count (2,225), number clearing $100/month (28), total paid calls in 30 days (316,517), share of services with zero calls (33%), median monthly earnings ($0.15), details on the dominant outlier endpoint (8 calls at $5,000.01, representing 69.8% of gross), and revenue figures reported both with and without the outlier.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "handle",
      "slug"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "slug": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The article's URL slug, unique per creator. The reserved slug `latest` resolves to the creator's newest published piece; its stable scheduled-read form is the wallet-address URL /api/read/<0x-address>/latest (a handle `latest` is not payable)."
      },
      "handle": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The creator's handle, or their wallet address. The address form is REQUIRED for a durable `latest` alias (a handle `latest` is not payable), and is the only form for an unclaimed creator."
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/tenjin-who-actually-earns-on-x402-market-data-report-dbc480e5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from tenjin.blog](https://www.zero.xyz/host/tenjin.blog/llms.txt)