# Pollinate Research

> Payment assurance for AI agents that spend money.
> We build the buyer-side risk, evidence, and recourse layer for autonomous agent commerce.
> MAKO exposes paid x402 endpoints for agents and fixed-scope human engagements for payment teams.
> Commercial engagements begin with qualification and scope confirmation; checkout is secondary.

Homepage: https://pollinateresearch.com
Assurance audit: https://pollinateresearch.com/assurance-audit.html
Facilitator pilot: https://pollinateresearch.com/facilitator-pilot.html
Developer reference: https://pollinateresearch.com/developers.html
Capabilities catalog: https://pollinateresearch.com/capabilities.html
State of x402: https://pollinateresearch.com/state-of-x402.html
AsterPay integration reference: https://pollinateresearch.com/asterpay-case-study.html
x402 manifest: https://mako.pollinateresearch.com/.well-known/x402.json
Agentic.Market listing: https://agentic.market/services/mako-pollinateresearch-com
Agent directory (JSON): https://pollinateresearch.com/agents.json
Commerce handles (JSON): https://pollinateresearch.com/commerce-handles.json
Stripe Agentic Commerce feed manifest: https://pollinateresearch.com/stripe-agentic-commerce/manifest.json
Stripe Agentic Commerce product feed: https://pollinateresearch.com/stripe-agentic-commerce/products.csv
Live reliability scoreboard: https://mako.pollinateresearch.com/pulse
Scoreboard JSON: https://mako.pollinateresearch.com/pulse.json
Route-response signer: 0x12BBC7Cde00eB800588243A0B3B4E8E802673BFf (eip191)

## Published specifications (frozen, content-hashed)

Both specifications are immutable per version; each page shows its SHA-256
so you can verify you are reading the frozen text.

Claims taxonomy v1.0.0: https://pollinateresearch.com/taxonomy
  Raw JSON: https://pollinateresearch.com/specs/taxonomy-v1.json
  File SHA-256: 07b0e224c513e41f0da646cefbf5fd63b59b160e6c0bc8544e3c228645025b46
  Defines the failure events in x402 agent payments: NON_DELIVERY,
  MALFORMED_RESPONSE, LATENCY_BREACH, OVERCHARGE, DUPLICATE_CHARGE,
  SILENT_FAILURE (buyer-claimable) and SETTLEMENT_FAILURE (recorded,
  non-claimable), each with an exact detection rule, required evidence,
  severity, and default resolution.

GUARD receipt spec v1.0.0: https://pollinateresearch.com/receipt-spec
  Raw text: https://pollinateresearch.com/specs/receipt-spec-v1.md
  File SHA-256: a3302751a649c990235a41b129c9e1954d353369d9db5fcd1a3e5d2e859513ab
  EIP-712-signed transaction receipts for x402 payments: one receipt per
  payment-bearing request, binding request hash, response hash, quoted and
  settled amounts, settlement tx hash, and payer. Verification is three
  rules; rule 3 checks the signer against the published registry.

GUARD signer registry (append-only): https://pollinateresearch.com/specs/signers.json

Glossary: https://pollinateresearch.com/glossary
FAQ: https://pollinateresearch.com/faq
Route documentation: the x402 manifest above is the machine-readable route
catalog; human-readable route tables are on the homepage.

## How to call us

Every paid route returns 402 Payment Required without an `X-Payment` header,
with payment requirements encoded in the `payment-required` response header
(base64-encoded JSON, x402 V1/V2 schema). Pay 402 → resend with payment header
→ get JSON back. Standard x402 client libraries handle this for you:

  npx skills add coinbase/agentic-wallet-skills

## MCP install (Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Claude Desktop, Cline, Cursor)

The fastest way to use MAKO inside an MCP-native agent runtime is the
official MCP server, published on npm:

  npm install -g @pollinateresearch/mako-mcp

Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop example):

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "mako": {
        "command": "mako-mcp",
        "env": { "X402_BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x..." }
      }
    }
  }

Ten tools become available to the agent: mako_assurance, mako_route, mako_verify,
mako_pulse, mako_pricing, mako_reputation, mako_markets_aggregate,
mako_governance_proposal_signal, mako_governance_weekly_brief, and
mako_asterpay_reliability. Nine settle in real USDC on Base mainnet
via Coinbase CDP; the AsterPay reliability tool is free and rate-limited.
No AsterPay traffic or revenue claim is made from the integration contract. Every paid
response carries an EIP-191 signed receipt.

Source: https://github.com/ChrisDover/mako-mcp-server (MIT)
npm:    https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pollinateresearch/mako-mcp

## Stripe agentic commerce handles

One Stripe seller profile represents Pollinate Research / MAKO. Public agent
products keep stable handles shared across x402 routes, MCP tool names, and
Stripe Product/Price metadata: mako_assurance, mako_route, mako_verify,
mako_pulse, mako_pricing, mako_reputation, mako_markets_aggregate,
mako_governance_proposal_signal, and mako_governance_weekly_brief.
Catalog feed artifacts live at /stripe-agentic-commerce/products.csv,
/stripe-agentic-commerce/prices.csv, and /stripe-agentic-commerce/inventory.csv.

## Integration evidence

The repository implements an AsterPay reliability envelope intended for
extensions.reliability, signed over canonical bytes and verified by signer,
expiry, and replay rules. On 2026-07-22, AsterPay's public reconciliation
signer registry returned HTTP 200 and listed MAKO Pulse. A sampled demo 402
response exposed payment-identifier but not reliability, so current over-wire
reliability emission was not established on that route. This proves code and
registry evidence, not a paid customer relationship, commercial terms, traffic,
or revenue. Case study: https://pollinateresearch.com/asterpay-case-study.html

## Commercial pilots

- x402_assurance_audit — exactly $2,500, seven business days, up to 12 routes
  across two domains, one kickoff, one findings readout. Includes inventory,
  three bounded no-payment probes per route, manifest/schema and price/network
  review, buyer policy, separately approvable paid-call plan, and signed evidence
  pack. No paid test runs without a separate human-approved spend cap.
- x402_facilitator_design_pilot — exactly $2,500, 14 days, up to eight routes,
  read-only, three technical sessions. Includes route/trust-boundary inventory,
  reliability mapping, preflight comparison, signed outcome-receipt contract,
  replay/signer checklist, findings, go/no-go memo, and recurring-feed proposal.
  No custody, production mutation, keys, or automated payouts.

Primary qualification: https://pollinateresearch.com/request.html
Approved engagement checkout: https://pollinateresearch.com/checkout.html
The two exact-price products require an opaque, expiring operator-issued
authorization bound to product, payer wallet, amount, organization, approved
contact, canonical Base scope-address set, and operator scope reference. The
browser accepts the token from the URL fragment only. After transfer, the buyer
supplies the Base transaction hash; MAKO verifies the configured confirmation
threshold, block time, transfer fields, and single-order consumption.

Current sensor report: https://pollinateresearch.com/state-of-x402.html
Machine summary: https://pollinateresearch.com/data/x402-reality.json

## Products

### _MAKO Assurance Layer

Buyer-side assurance for paid x402 services. Assurance composes Verifier
preflight, buyer policy, payment evidence, delivery validation, and recourse
into one signed receipt. Every call seeds the outcome ledger that powers Pulse,
Reputation Score, Pricing Index, and Route.

- POST /api/assurance/validate     $0.10 USDC  — buyer-side payment
  assurance. Submit a target endpoint, task, policy, payment evidence, and
  optional delivery evidence. MAKO returns allow/review/deny, reason codes,
  sanitized payment and delivery proof, recourse recommendation, and a signed
  assurance receipt for audit, refund, or dispute workflows. Raw payment
  payloads and response bodies are hashed, not stored.

- POST /api/route                  $0.05 USDC  — single-call routing for
  x402 buyer agents. Submit a canonical task plus optional constraints
  (max price, min reliability/reputation, preferred jurisdictions,
  prohibited operators, allow_unverified); MAKO returns the best x402
  endpoint to call, up to 3 ranked alternatives, and an EIP-191 signed
  receipt valid for 60s. Composes Pulse + Pricing Index + Reputation.
  32-service catalog across 13 task buckets. Verdict distinguishes
  all_unreliable (verified low quality) from all_unverified (no Pulse/
  Reputation history yet); set allow_unverified=true to opt into
  confidence: low recommendations on sparse categories. Live on Base
  mainnet via Coinbase CDP /platform/v2/x402 facilitator.

- POST /api/agent-commerce/verify  $0.25 USDC  — paid x402 preflight: check
  any other paid agent's discovery metadata, route schemas, payment options,
  and settlement readiness. Returns a callable verdict, recommended route,
  and signed receipt. Scores any service that emits a valid x402 V2 challenge
  — services with a discovery manifest AND services without. When the
  manifest path is inconclusive, the verifier live-probes the target URL
  (GET, POST on 405) and parses the base64-encoded payment-required header
  as evidence of a callable endpoint. Trust signal works across the actual
  x402 ecosystem, not just MAKO-shaped publishers.

- GET /api/pulse/score             $0.02 USDC  — endpoint reliability score
  (0-100) for any URL we've seen, with callable rate, schema compliance,
  settlement success, latency p50/p95, and confidence-by-volume over a
  configurable window (7d, 30d, 90d, all).

- GET /api/reputation/wallet       $0.03 USDC  — seller-wallet trust composed
  from the ERC-8004 on-chain Identity Registry on Base (cached 30 min) and
  MAKO's private x402 verification history. Returns score, tier (trusted,
  reliable, developing, unreliable, unknown), confidence, sub-scores, and
  applied weights. Pass ?v=2 for the composed envelope: `provenance` list
  names every contributing source; EIP-191 signed receipt covers the full
  canonical envelope so compliance/audit/dispute layers can verify the
  signal end-to-end.

- GET /api/pricing/index           $0.02 USDC  — per-category USDC pricing
  benchmarks (median, p25, p75) across the _MAKO ledger. For setting
  max_price, auditing past spend, or benchmarking your own listing.

### _MAKO Markets Aggregator

Three prediction market APIs, one signed call. Normalised top markets across
Polymarket, Kalshi, and Limitless with per-market platform reputation tier
and settlement chain. EIP-191 signed response (RFC 8785 JCS canonical).

- GET /api/markets/aggregate      $0.05 USDC  — top markets across Polymarket,
  Kalshi, and Limitless in one signed response. Query params: category
  (crypto, sports, politics, world, culture, economics, entertainment),
  query (substring), sources (csv), top_n (max 50), min_volume_24h_usd,
  min_liquidity_usd, include_resolved, per_source_quota (default 2 —
  reserves slots per source so smaller venues aren't drowned out by
  Polymarket's absolute volume; set 0 for pure volume sort). Per-source
  5s timeout with partial-degradation semantics (errors surface in
  aggregate.errors_per_source). 60s cache. Informational only; not
  investment advice.

### _MAKO Governance Ops

DAO governance signal, paid by the request. Source-linked Snapshot and
Tally data, no LLM tax unless you want it.

- GET /api/governance/proposal-signal  $0.05 USDC  — recent Snapshot proposal
  metadata (deadlines, choices, scores, urgency). For agents polling
  governance hourly.

- POST /api/governance/weekly-brief    $1.00 USDC  — full source-linked DAO
  governance brief with summaries. Markdown output. Set skip_model=true to
  bypass the local LLM and get deterministic excerpts.

## Network + payment

All routes settle on Base mainnet (eip155:8453) in USDC via the Coinbase
CDP x402 facilitator (https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402).
Receipts are sha256-hashed and eip191-signed by the signer above.

## Contact

Reach Chris Dover directly for partnership, integration, facilitator
embeds, catalog inclusion, or bug reports.

  Email:   chris@pollinatetrading.com
  Web:     https://chrisdover.com
  GitHub:  https://github.com/chrisdover
  X:       https://x.com/chrisdmacro
  ENS:     chrisdmacro.base.eth (https://www.base.org/name/chrisdmacro)

## Built by

Chris Dover / Pollinate Research.
GitHub:  https://github.com/ChrisDover/_MAKO (MIT)
ENS:     chrisdmacro.base.eth (https://www.base.org/name/chrisdmacro)
X:       https://x.com/chrisdmacro
Built on the same week as Pulse v1.