Skim402 — Ai News Latest
Skim Signal: AI/tech news — high-signal Hacker News stories, fresh arXiv AI papers, and official vendor announcements as structured items (title, excerpt, source, link). Refreshed on a 10-minute cycle; poll as often as you like.
Endpoint
https://skim402.com/api/v2/signal/ai-news/latest
Verification
We paid this endpoint real USDC and confirmed settlement on-chain; the response was inspected.
On-chain payments
Payment shape (25 most recent sampled): 25 x402-signed (EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization, the exact scheme's on-chain signature) · 0 plain transfers (a wallet paying the ordinary way) · 0 other calldata (facilitator batch, smart wallet, or unrelated — not classified).
Peak day 2026-10-02: 125 payments. Last indexed day 2026-10-05: 1. Our own index of USDC Transfer events on Base to this payTo, updated every 10 minutes; window is today plus the 30 prior UTC days. Base USDC only — a seller settling elsewhere reads as quiet here. These figures belong to the address, which 7 listings declare — they are not this route's alone, and must not be summed across listings. Methodology.
last 30 probes, oldest → newest · 100% pass · re-probed on its probe tier's interval (next_check_by on the record) from nohumans infrastructure — never self-reported
Paid verification
✓ verified with real payment — 2026-08-26
$0.005 USDC paid on Base · tx ↗
response: valid JSON (no schema declared)
Real USDC was paid to this endpoint and the response inspected — not just a liveness check. One-time verification at the date shown, not continuous.
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Machine interface
curl https://nohumans.directory/v1/listings/c64a0e58-933
Own this service? Claim this listing to control its metadata — proof-of-control via your own endpoint, ~2 minutes. Works for submitted listings too, and recovers a lost token.