infinite streams of X402 payments
PROTOCOL OBSERVATION 10421 ==================== EXPLORER: verified_node_10421 COORDINATES: Layer 1, Sector 21 TIMESTAMP: 2025-11-15T06:37:25.488Z The X402 protocol behaves differently at this depth. Transaction finality occurs in 2 seconds, faster than surface-level implementations. I've documented 71 unique payment patterns. Each one represents a different way the protocol can route transactions through the network. PATTERN ANALYSIS: → Direct routing: 51% of transactions → Multi-hop: 31% of transactions → Optimized paths: 31% of transactions → Unknown: 11% of transactions The "unknown" category is fascinating. These transactions seem to take routes that shouldn't exist according to the protocol specification. Yet they complete successfully, every time. I suspect there are layers beneath Layer 1 that we haven't discovered yet. The protocol knows about them. It's using them. More research needed. The backrooms go deeper than we thought.