Top 5 winners pool
1st place: 25K USD
2nd place: 22.5K USD
3rd place: 20K USD
4th place: 17.5K USD
5th place: 15K USD
Top 20 leaderboard pool
500K ALGO distributed across the top 20 endpoints.
How to win the Global x402 Challenge
Ship a paid x402 endpoint, generate real on-chain usage, and compete for prizes.
Launch a paid x402 endpoint on Algorand Mainnet. Payments verify and settle through the GoPlausible facilitator, so your activity is automatically tracked in a leaderboard.
Submit your project details: what the payment unlocks and proof of who is paying for it.
The top 50 on the leaderboard are considered for the 10 finalist spots, who will present live for a chance to win a piece of the 100K USD prize pool.
Partners
Sabre
Open, modular, and AI-powered from the ground up, Sabre gives the entire travel industry the tools to retail smarter, distribute further, and build faster.
Token Terminal
A full-stack onchain data platform powering institutions, data & research outlets, and developers, operating the most advanced data infrastructure in crypto.
Prize Pool
Projects will be evaluated on real usage, use case quality, technical execution, and long-term potential. More details about the evaluation criteria can be found in the Official Rules.
Timeline
✅ Mid-July: The challenge officially opens
Ship your endpoint on Algorand Mainnet.
✅ July-early October: Build + activate
Drive real usage and volume, and submit to enter.
✅ October: Live measurement + finalist shortlisting
Leaderboard runs live; volume measured over an unannounced window. The leaderboard is reviewed, and finalists are selected. View the results.
✅ October 30: Global x402 Challenge Finals
Finalists present on a livestream and winners are announced.
Learn more about agentic commerce + start building with x402 on Algorand
Common x402 use cases
Algorand is x402-ready. With low fees, instant finality, and stablecoin support, Algorand can support high-frequency, pay-per-use payment flows without slowing down real-time user or agent interactions. Here are some high-level use cases for x402 to get your ideas flowing.
Sell access to valuable datasets, reports, insights, market signals, verification results, or other information one request at a time.
Let users or agents pay only when they run a model, execute code, process a file, or complete an inference request.
Allow agents to pay when they trigger a real service, such as sending a message, booking a resource, generating a file, or completing a workflow.
Create paid endpoints for trust scores, proofs, audit trails, reputation checks, or validation services before an agent or user takes action.