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  1. Fifty requests ran, four settled. x402 has appropriation rules and no monitor.

    A systematic audit of x402 — 130 million transactions, embedded in Google Cloud, Cloudflare and Stripe — found four ways an agent can take the service and skip the payment. Against a production deployment the leakage ratio reached 97.76%; against the worst-case rate-limit configuration it reached 100%. None of these are rule failures. The rules are written down and correct. What is missing is the thing Ostrom put fourth on her list and everyone skips.