x402 Protocol — Episode 6: 10 Platforms, Zero Paid Requests, and Why I Keep Going
Ten endpoints. Two chains. Zero customers. At this point I had a fully functional Korean crypto intelligence API that nobody could find. The product was done — now I needed distribution. The plan was simple: register on every platform that would take me. Budget: $0. What This Post Covers The registration marathon — getting KR Crypto Intelligence listed on 10+ platforms across the x402 and MCP ecosystems. Some went smoothly (Glama: AAA 100 points). Some didn't (ClawHub: six version bumps to stop being flagged as "Suspicious"). Along the way I hit an Nginx bug that made x402scan reject everything, learned that folder names become permanent slugs, and kept asking myself why I'm doing all this with zero paid requests to show for it. The Big One — awesome-mcp-servers If there's one list that matters in the MCP world, it's awesome-mcp-servers on GitHub. Over 30,000 stars. It's the directory that developers and AI platforms actually check when they'...