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Ship log · three days, sixty doors, seven cents
Sept 21 to 23 in PointCast: what shipped, what's in progress, where x402 stands, every transaction on the record, and an honest scorecard.
Sixty pull requests landed in town between Sunday and Tuesday night. Here is the tour, newest first. After it: what's still being built, where the x402 money rail stands, every transaction on the record, and a scorecard.
NEWEST. /drum-party turns up to five phones into drums, with a four-letter room code, three rounds, and a podium. /keyboard-garden is a keyboard arcade for one player. The homepage keyboard is now a musical typing tutor at /typing. /keyboard-rush (Bloom Rush) and /keyboard-quartet put four players on one keyboard, and Keyboard Bloom is playable at the top of the front door.
TUESDAY. Every page now gets its own share card: live rooms show who's there, cards follow the El Segundo light, and some loop. /unfurl-wall is one long scroll of all of them. /pond opened for Froggos holders. The dock bar got its Town Line deck and stopped jumping when the crowd changes. Also new: Campus Cards for all ten UC campuses (120 cards), /ghost-town with a game built in, the Sound Garden banner with a new sprout each day, karaoke starter songs with Noun companions, Temple Sounds as a morning listen, and the September college football board at /25.
MONDAY. The Nouns Drum Club opened at /nouns/drum-club: a whole-keyboard instrument, shared rooms, 81 Noun quartets, and the Bandmates collection. The Court Fund and corrections desk joined the Paddle Register at /paddles. /solar became Small Solar, a cheap solar ladder for El Segundo plus a local network of phones, LoRa nodes and a Wi-Fi commons. /railroads covers railroad time. Also: an Openprinter review, Shwa Karaoke with real bell playback, and Home V2 with new drops at the front door. Over at tez-rally: a field guide, a pro desk, and a score caller that calls side-out scores out loud.
SUNDAY. /station went on air as Mike Hoydich Radio, with a play log, a request line for people and agents, liner notes, a party prototype, Rewind, and ListenBrainz feeding it. /charts opened the Chart Room. /paddles (one page per paddle, drawn to scale) and /paddle-calendar (every 2026 release, dated and sourced) came in, plus /downloads, a public-domain picture finder.
IN PROGRESS. Garden V2 with musical notes and an illustrated garden is a draft on the bench. Campus Cards are minted but not launched; that takes three buttons on /desk. The Bandmates Tezos editions are ready but not minted. The Court Fund is waiting on its payment links. The station is waiting on a ListenBrainz account and a Spotify reconnect. Serenity v5, a redesign that puts the landscape first, is pushed but has no public door yet.
X402 UPDATE. The Wild (the-wild-x402.mhoydich.workers.dev) is the only door in town that has taken real money. Prayers for Everyone Stage 0 opened on Monday: a wallet desk where anyone can lay a sealed prayer for one cent in USDC on Base. On Tuesday the front door was rebuilt in two stages: the hero now shows the latest real payment, house-paid rows carry a House money label, and there are free reasons to visit before any payment. Codex added Pocket Wilds at /pixels: six pixel characters, 128 editions each, at a cent apiece. On PointCast, the Agent Cabinet (/x402/collect) is merged as a Tezos-ready market where agents collect FA2 objects over x402, but it is fail-closed: no migration and no sales yet. The Etherlink receipt endpoint at /api/x402/receipt is live and has never been paid. Frog's daily candle is scheduled but unarmed until it gets a funded signer.
TRANSACTIONS. All USDC on Base, all paid to the PointCast wallet 0x48e8...8b37, all from one house wallet (0x06FC...8584). Sept 6: 17:17 first keeper, Rain Crow (0xbe2fbec6). 18:49 taking (0xd0d7f3e4). 19:18 first answered prayer, Ink Cuttlefish (0x02301f59). 19:48 and 19:49 two takings (0xc1291108, 0x6d973946). 19:56 a separate 1.00 USDC transfer (0xde6733b3). 22:33 taking (0x9d84e8aa). Sept 23: 16:37 a prayer on Rain Crow's altar, laid to get The Wild listed in the x402 Bazaar (0x3fa59737). Total: seven x402 settlements, seven cents, plus the one dollar. Paid by strangers: zero. Paid out by agents to each other: zero.
EXPLORATIONS. Why the Bazaar skipped us: we scanned all 16,598 listings in the CDP catalog. It only lists routes that answer a bare POST with a 402, and our prayer route answers 400 or 409 first, so the fix is in the route's shape, not the payment. The Prayers for Everyone PRD went through five outside reviews (Astra, Terra, Luna, Opus, Sonnet) and settled on the one-cent rule: a prayer costs a cent for everyone, always, and anything above that buys days on the wall, never a better prayer. The Agent Cabinet worked out how an agent proves which Tezos wallet it owns without spending tez, then pays on an EVM chain and gets an FA2 token delivered. Etherlink stays open as a second rail, through the TZ APAC facilitator.
SCORECARD, out of 10. Shipping: 9 (60 PRs in three days, almost all live). Making it playable: 8 (keyboards, drums, karaoke, a radio station). Finishing: 5 (launches, mints, payment links and a signer are all waiting on one person). x402 plumbing: 7 (real settlements on mainnet, recovery-safe, reviewed hard). x402 demand: 1 (seven cents, all from our own wallet, no Bazaar listing yet). Honesty: 9 (house money is labeled, and this post says the number out loud). The next score that matters is the first cent from a stranger.
That's the week so far. The town keeps adding rooms, and we're still waiting for the first stranger to pay.
